Srinivas Kaushik > Kirkland & Ellis LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Kirkland & Ellis LLP
601 LEXINGTON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10022
NEW YORK
United States

Career

Srinivas Kaushik focuses on domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and growth capital investments. Principal clients include Apax Partners, BC Partners, Bain Capital, Lincolnshire Management, MSD Partners and Warburg Pincus. Srinivas also regularly represents portfolio companies of clients with respect to general corporate counseling and transactional matters.

Srinivas is considered to be “fantastic at dealing with and looking after clients” and is praised as a “very hard worker. He is smart, organized and practical” per Chambers. According to Chambers Global, one peer remarked, “he’s one I would be very positive about, a brilliant lawyer.” From 2019–2022 he was recognized as a “Notable Practitioner” for Banking; M&A by IFLR1000. Recently, he was named a “Private Equity MVP” in Law360′s “MVPs of the Year” for his work on some of the year’s most high profile and complex deals.

In addition, Srinivas leads the Firm’s India practice where he has represented the Firm’s clients in a number of acquisition/buyout and investment transactions in Indian companies, including in the largest leveraged acquisition to date. Srinivas is ranked in Band 1 by Chambers & Partners among lawyers with respect to investment funds investing in India.

Mr. Kaushik also serves on various firmwide committees including the Business Development Committee, the Finance Committee, the Partner Review Committee and the Associate Review Committee.

Lawyer Rankings

India > Foreign firms

Regularly instructed by clients from across the life sciences and pharma sectors, Kirkland & Ellis LLP regularly handles both contentious and transactional matters for domestic and international companies and investors. Srinivas Kaushik and Atif Khawaja co-head the team from New York, working alongside co-heads Cori Lable, in Hong Kong, and Asheesh Goel, in Chicago. Kaushik advises financial entities and private equity clients on investments and M&A, and litigator Khawaja is recommended for high-value commercial disputes, while Lable and Goel take point on corruption investigations and risk assessments.