Kirkland & Ellis

Extracted Attributes

• Headquarters

  Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Total Lawyers

  Approximately 4,000

• Inception Date

  1909-01-01

• Total Employees

  More than 7,000

• Primary Practice Areas

  Private equity, M&A, litigation, restructuring, intellectual property, government investigations

• Number of Global Offices

  23

Timeline

• Kirkland & Ellis is founded in Chicago, Illinois. (Source: Wikidata)

  1909-01-01

• Weymouth Kirkland and Howard Ellis join the firm, establishing the partnership that would drive the firm's long-term growth. (Source: Kirkland History | Kirkland & Ellis LLP)

  1915-01-01

• Robert R. McCormick's name is removed from the firm's door as he transitions fully to editing the Chicago Tribune. (Source: Kirkland History | Kirkland & Ellis LLP)

  1927-01-01

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• Kirkland & Ellis LLP Company Profile - Overview - GlobalData

  Kirkland & Ellis LLP (Kirkland & Ellis) is a provider of legal services. The company offers services such as litigation, intellectual property, restructuring, and transactional law services. Its practice areas include advertising, marketing and promotions, antitrust and competition, appeals, artificial intelligence, banking and financial institutions and class action litigation. Kirkland & Ellis also offers services in areas including construction, consumer and retail transactions, consumer protection, patent office post-grant proceedings, real estate, sports, tax, trials, creditors, insurance recovery, and corporate governance among others. The company serves individuals, public and private companies, private equity investors and governmental sectors. It operates in Asia, Europe and [...] and governmental sectors. It operates in Asia, Europe and North America. Kirkland & Ellis is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the US.

• Kirkland & Ellis, USA 2025 | Chambers Profiles

  ### Overview Provided by Kirkland & Ellis Firm Overview: Kirkland & Ellis is global law firm with approximately 4,000 attorneys representing clients in private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions, litigation and dispute resolution/arbitration, restructuring, and intellectual property matters. The firm has 23 offices around the world: Austin, Bay Area, Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Munich, Nashville, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, Riyadh, Salt Lake City, Shanghai and Washington, D.C. Main Areas of Practice: Antitrust & Competition: [...] Restructuring/Insolvency: By combining sophisticated business advisory and crisis management skills with extensive experience in multijurisdictional insolvency matters, Kirkland’s restructuring group navigates clients through situations involving financially troubled companies. The firm has earned a distinguished reputation by achieving results for clients in complex corporate restructuring, workout and bankruptcy planning, negotiation and litigation. Tax: [...] Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations: Kirkland represents corporations across the world in their most sensitive investigations matters. With experience in over 150 countries and bolstered by a deep bench of former senior government enforcement professionals, Kirkland represents clients before the U.S. DOJ, SEC, Congress, and UK and other foreign authorities across a diverse spectrum of matters, including securities and futures enforcement, financial and accounting fraud, anti-corruption/anti-bribery, sanctions, antitrust, healthcare fraud, manufacturing practices, taxation, environmental crimes and more. Kirkland also routinely represents companies in complex internal investigations and on the design, development and implementation of compliance programs.

• Kirkland & Ellis

  333 W Wolf Point Plaza, Chicago, Illinois 60654, US, 200 Clarendon St, Boston, Massachusetts 02116, US, 4550 Travis St, Dallas, Texas 75205, US, 609 Main St, Houston, Texas, US, 2049 Century Park E, Suite 3700, Los Angeles, California 90067, US, 601 Lexington Ave, New York, New York 10022, US, 3330 Hillview Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304, US, 555 California St, San Francisco, California, US, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20004, US, No. 1 Jian Guo Men Wai Avenue, 58th Floor, China World Tower A, Beijing, China 100004, CN, 15 Queen's Road Central, 26th Floor, Gloucester Tower, Hong Kong, HK, 40 Leadenhall Street, London, England EC3A 2AA, GB, Maximilianstraße 11, Munich, Bavaria, DE, 8 Century Avenue, Pudong New District, 11th Floor, HSBC Building, Shanghai, . [...] As one of the world’s leading law firms, we serve a broad range of clients with market-leading practices in private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and alternative asset management; restructurings; high-stakes commercial and intellectual property litigation; and government, regulatory and internal investigations. We handle the most complicated and sophisticated legal matters because we don’t just meet industry standards, we create them. We bring innovation and entrepreneurialism to every engagement and, as a result, have long-standing client relationships with leading global corporations and financial sponsors. With more than 7,000 employees (including approximately 4,000 lawyers) operating from offices in 23 cities across the United States, [...] Pudong New District, 11th Floor, HSBC Building, Shanghai, . 200120, CN, 43-45, Avenue Kléber, Paris, Île-de-France 75116, FR, 401 W. 4th Street, Austin, Texas 78701, US, 60 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111, US, Avenue Louise 149, 1050 Brussels, 1050, BE, 830 Brickell Plaza, Miami, Florida 33131, US, Level 31, Tadawul Tower King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) 3229 Financial Boulevard, Riyadh, 13519, SA, Junghofstraße 9, Frankfurt, Hesse 60315, DE, 2005 Market Street, Suite 1000, Philadelphia, PA 19103, US, 3330 Hillview Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304, US

• About Kirkland | Kirkland & Ellis LLP

  We are an international law firm that serves a broad range of clients around the world in private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and alternative asset management; restructurings; high-stakes commercial and intellectual property litigation; and white collar and government disputes. We offer the highest quality legal advice coupled with extraordinary, tailored service to deliver exceptional results to our clients and help their businesses succeed. We invest in the brightest legal talent and build dynamic teams that operate at the pinnacle of their respective areas. And we believe in empowering our lawyers, encouraging entrepreneurialism, operating ethically and with integrity, and collaborating to bring our best to every engagement. These [...] collaborating to bring our best to every engagement. These principles have guided us in building successful long-term partnerships with clients since our founding in 1909. [...] Litigation: Our trial lawyers represent companies involved in business-critical lawsuits. We offer a deep bench of lawyers who have been taking cases to verdict since the early stages of their careers. Our trial-ready approach often yields better outcomes in disputes long before trial. We also regularly represent companies and boards in white collar and government-facing litigation, where substantial financial and reputational interests are at stake. Intellectual Property: Clients benefit from our critical mass of lawyers who are trained in a variety of technical disciplines with experience in litigation, transactions and counseling matters involving all areas of intellectual property.

• Kirkland History | Kirkland & Ellis LLP

  McCormick’s departure left two important legacies to his former Firm: its first major client, the Tribune Company and a revolutionary new partner, Weymouth Kirkland. While representing the Tribune in prosecutions which arose from a circulation war with newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, Kirkland had cemented his relationship with McCormick. He joined the Firm in 1915 as a named partner, along with a recent graduate from The University of Chicago Law School, Howard Ellis. It was the combination of Kirkland’s outstanding trial skills and the legal experience of Ellis that would ultimately turn this small partnership into the global firm we are today. It would also establish our professional ethic: our lawyers handle the biggest and most difficult matters, whatever the odds. [...] The world has changed and we have changed with it, but our founders’ unshakable commitment to excellence holds true. Our predecessors McCormick, Kirkland, Ellis and Chaffetz and many others, believed in hiring the best lawyers to take on the toughest cases and most challenging deals. They set the standard for excellence during the Firm’s first century that all Kirkland lawyers and staff will continue to follow through the next 100 years. [...] Colonel McCormick was by far the most well-known member of the Firm’s original partnership. His grandfather, Joseph Medill, was the legendary publisher of the Chicago Tribune and his family was one of Chicago’s most prominent. Less than a year after starting the Firm, McCormick was thrust into an unexpected leading role at the family business. His succession to the editorship effectively ended his legal career though his name remained on the door until 1927.

• Country

  United States

• Instance Of

  Q613142

• Headquarters

  Chicago

• Inception Date

  1/1/1909