Mr Daniel Wolf > Kirkland & Ellis LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Public companies as well as boards of directors targeted by activists and unsolicited corporate bidders are key clients for the team at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, based out of the firm’s New York office. The multidisciplinary team draws on expertise from many of the firm’s other areas of practice, including M&A, capital markets, ESG, litigation and restructuring, allowing clients to adapt their strategic and defense communication to important market players. Shaun Mathew, Daniel Wolf, and Sarkis Jebejian are among the standout team members whose individual strengths add to the team’s versatility – Mathew is a member of the firm’s crisis response practice group and is therefore well placed to assist clients with high-profile crisis situations including cyber-attacks and short-term activist attacks. An especially noteworthy recent matter of Mathew’s was advising Huntsman Corporation, together with Wolf, on its successful proxy contest defense against prominent activist Starboard Value LP.

Boasting an extensive, cross-border M&A platform, Kirkland & Ellis LLP is at the helm of several of the highest-profile and most cutting-edge transactions in the US. The practice routinely handles a significant volume of large-cap deals in a variety of industries on behalf of major global public corporations, privately-held companies, financial sponsors and boards of directors. Contested M&A, activism defense and governance matters feature on Daniel Wolf‘s diverse workload; he is the counsel of choice for several heavyweights operating in the private equity, telecoms, technology and chemicals sectors, among others. In addition to his knowledge of public and private M&A, Jonathan Davis is a key name to note for business combination transactions involving special-purpose acquisition companies. Edward Lee – a respected M&A and public company boardroom advisor – has recently worked on multi-billion dollar deals in the technology and media spaces. All named practitioners are based in the New York office.