 | Since our founding in 1909, Kirkland has been powered by passion. We offer the highest quality legal advice coupled with extraordinary, tailored service to deliver exceptional results to our clients and help their businesses succeed. Our attorneys around the world work together in multidisciplinary teams to provide full-service capabilities to clients on their most complex legal matters. We believe in empowering our lawyers, encouraging entrepreneurialism, operating ethically and with integrity, and collaborating to achieve excellence in every engagement. We are united in our ambition and drive to move the Firm forward by recruiting the best legal talent. We invest in our people and build dynamic teams, supported by a culture that encourages and draws strength from the diversity of our employees' backgrounds, knowledge and skills. | |
Where We Excel
Transactional
With more than 2,600 transactional attorneys Firmwide, Kirkland’s corporate lawyers cover the full spectrum of corporate transactions important to businesses in today’s global marketplace. Our emphasis on teamwork allows us to synthesize the specialty areas needed to support a top-tier transactional practice for the benefit of our clients. Because of our consistently high volume of complex transactional engagements, we have developed a broad vision of the issues that confront business organizations and an aptitude for developing novel, creative and constructive solutions. Our lawyers negotiate and close highly sophisticated transactions, representing public and private companies and private equity investors across a broad range of complex engagements.
Litigation
Our 600+ litigators handle the most challenging cases, and our success rate at trial is among the best in the country. We represent clients in trial and appellate courts at the federal and state level, before administrative tribunals, and in arbitrations and other dispute resolution proceedings.
We are also uniquely suited to handle the primary and collateral consequences of government investigations with an internationally recognized team, including former senior enforcement professionals from the U.S. DOJ, SEC, FTC, Congress, the White House and the UK Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA).
Our focus on trial-readiness drives successful and more cost-efficient results for clients as critical issues are identified early and then used to maximum advantage in the litigation and negotiation processes.
We encourage lawyers, especially junior lawyers, to work on a broad range of litigation matters to gain a more well-rounded skillset.
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. Our fast-paced proceedings allow associates a greater opportunity to get hands-on, on-your-feet experience.
Restructuring
Kirkland is a thought leader in the industry, filing some of the largest and most complex Chapter 11 cases and developing novel plan structures to achieve the best result for our clients. With more than 200 attorneys in the Firm’s U.S., London, Munich, Hong Kong and Riyadh offices, our group is a leader in complex domestic and cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters.
Our market-leading Restructuring Group provides a broad range of business advisory and crisis management skills to navigate clients through the turmoil of situations involving financially troubled companies. Our restructuring practice is interdisciplinary, providing opportunities for associates in the board room, as well as the court room.
Who We Are
3,500+ Attorneys
115+ years of experience
21 Offices Worldwide: Austin, Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Munich, New York, Palo Alto, Paris, Riyadh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Shanghai, Washington, D.C.