Overview
Our Philosophy
Our principal goals are to provide the highest quality legal services available anywhere; to be an instrumental part of each client's success; and to recruit, retain and advance the brightest legal talent. We seek long-term, partnering relationships with clients, to the end of providing the best total solution to their legal needs.
Results-Oriented
We stress — and clients rightfully expect — good results. Our lawyers employ innovative, pragmatic strategies and hard work to ensure that our clients' legal needs are met. Our success depends on close coordination with our clients, and our lawyers work collaboratively to set objectives, develop budgets and conduct periodic reviews to measure our progress against those objectives.
Our principal goals are to provide the highest quality legal services available anywhere; to be an instrumental part of each client's success; and to recruit, retain and advance the brightest legal talent. We seek long-term, partnering relationships with clients, to the end of providing the best total solution to their legal needs.
Results-Oriented
We stress — and clients rightfully expect — good results. Our lawyers employ innovative, pragmatic strategies and hard work to ensure that our clients' legal needs are met. Our success depends on close coordination with our clients, and our lawyers work collaboratively to set objectives, develop budgets and conduct periodic reviews to measure our progress against those objectives.
Client List
Kirkland is privileged to represent a wide array of corporate, individual and governmental interests in litigation, corporate and tax, intellectual property, restructuring and counseling matters for major national and international clients.
Some of K&E’s representative clients include:
- 3G Capital
- AAG Energy Holdings Limited
- Abbott Laboratories
- AbbVie
- ABRY Partners
- Accenture
- Accretive Health
- Aon
- Apax Partners
- Avis Budget Group
- Bain Capital
- BAIOO Family Interactive Limited
- BASF
- Baxter International
- Blackstone Group
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Boehringer Ingelheim USA
- Boeing
- Boise Cascade
- BP America
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
- C.R. Bard
- The Carlyle Group
- Cengage Learning
- Chesapeake Energy
- China Railway Signal & Communications Co., Ltd
- Chobani
- Cigna
- Cisco
- Citadel Investment Group
- Delta Air Lines
- DIRECTV
- Dow Chemical
- Dyson, Inc.
- Edison Mission Energy
- Emerald Plantation Holdings Limited
- Fannie Mae
- Fisker Automotive
- Francisco Partners
- Golden Gate Capital
- Gryphon Partners
- GTCR, LLC
- Hess
- HGGC LLC
- Hill's Pet Nutrition
- Honeywell International
- Hospira
- IBM
- iHeartMedia
- Intel
- Ad hoc committee of Kaisa bondholders
- Kinderhook Industries, LLC
- KKR
- Offshore lenders to La Dolce Vita Fine Dining Company Limited
- Madison Dearborn Partners
- Medtronic
- Micro Focus
- Motorola Solutions
- Nationwide
- Nike
- NRG Energy
- Oaktree Capital Management
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board
- Pfizer
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Qihoo 360 Technology Co.
- Qinhuangdao Port Co., Ltd.
- Raytheon
- RBS Securities, Inc.
- Sallie Mae
- Samsung
- Siemens
- SINOPEC Engineering (Group) Co., Ltd.
- SIPC
- Starwood Capital
- Summit Partners
- Sun Capital Partners
- SuperMedia
- Teva Pharmaceuticals
- Textron
- Thoma Bravo
- Tian Ge Interactive Holdings
- Towerbrook Capital
- Trina Solar Limited
- UBS
- United Airlines
- United Technologies
- Verizon
- Vista Equity Partners
- World Fuel Services
- Wyndham Worldwide