Mr Daniel Wolf > Kirkland & Ellis LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Kirkland & Ellis LLP Offices
601 LEXINGTON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10022
NEW YORK
United States
Mr Daniel Wolf

Position
Daniel Wolf’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions where he represents public and private companies, as well as private equity firms, in a variety of domestic and international transactions. His transactional experience spans the range of M&A activity including many significant cross-border and contested transactions. He also counsels public company clients on governance, activism defense, finance, securities and other general corporate matters. Over the past eight years alone, Daniel has advised on announced M&A transactions with an aggregate value of well over $500 billion.
Education
London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, LLB, 1995, first class honours.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
(Hall of Fame)Equipped to handle the full spread of cross-border and high-profile M&A work, Kirkland & Ellis LLP is revered for its experience in the full gamut of M&A activity. Regularly engaged by public and private companies, boards of directors, and financial advisors and sponsors, the group operates out of the firm’s New York office. Industry veteran Daniel Wolf represents private equity firms in contested transactions, traditional M&A, and activism defense and corporate governance, whereas Jonathan Davis advises global household name brands and investment banks on public and private M&A. Sarkis Jebejian draws from his decades of experience to lead on top deals, a recent highlight being Six Flags’ $8bn merger of equals with Cedar Fair. Edward Lee focuses on spin-offs, carve-outs, and joint ventures, while David Klein assists strategic and sponsor clients on various high-value M&A mandates. David Feirstein primarily aids private equity firms on corporate matters. Graham Robinson joined in Boston from Skadden, specialising in life sciences and tech deals.
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
Based in New York, Kirkland & Ellis LLP‘s shareholder activism team is a pioneer and a thought-leader in providing advice and counsel to boards facing challenges from activist groups. Leveraging a unique combination of both a dedicated shareholder activism team and a world-leading M&A department, the team acts through the paradigm of providing clients with innovative and practical solutions for all their strategic goals and interests, rather than viewing proxy fights in isolation. Shaun Mathew leads in his response and counsel regarding live proxy fights, short attacks, ambushes, poison pills and hostile total takeover attempts by the most prominent activist groups in the most complex and difficult of matters and establishing new field-wide precedents. The practice also stars Evan Johnson, who marshals his unique experience of the dynamics at play in closed-end situations to act decisively on a broad range of concerns that boards face, and M&A expert Daniel Wolf, who specializes in the largest cross-border and contested transactions.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- M&A: large deals ($1bn+) United States > M&A/corporate and commercial
- Shareholder activism United States > M&A/corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Government > State attorneys general
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- International trade and national security > National Security
- Finance > Project finance
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Government > Government relations