Mr Jeffrey Willian > Kirkland & Ellis LLP > Chicago, United States > Lawyer Profile
Kirkland & Ellis LLP Offices
300 NORTH LASALLE
CHICAGO, IL 60654
United States
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Mr Jeffrey Willian
Position
Jeffrey Willian is a senior litigation partner with Kirkland & Ellis LLP. As lead trial attorney, he has obtained many nationally recognized results in forums throughout the country. His practice focuses on complex financial disputes, securities, corporate governance, frauds, engineering and construction failures, and real estate-related matters. As noted below, Jeff’s efforts have resulted in billions of dollars in favorable awards and savings for his clients.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
At Kirkland & Ellis LLP, the construction practice acts in high-stakes and high-value disputes cases, while also providing services in contract negotiation and drafting, project oversight and pre-litigation counseling. Based in New York and Chicago, Jeffrey Willian has advised on several build and engineering cost defects and overruns. The rest of the team is mostly Chicago-based, where Hariklia Karis often acts in alleged breach of contract and ensuing settlement cases, while Elizabeth Hess specialises in professional liability cases involving architects, engineers and sub-contractors. Of counsel James Nowacki lists architects, contractors and owners among his clients for industrial, transportation, office building and manufacturing-based work.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Industry focus > Energy transactions: conventional power
- Industry focus > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Industry focus > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Industry focus > Energy litigation: conventional power
- 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
- Investment funds > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Industry focus > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Industry focus > Environment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Finance > Project finance
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Industry focus > Energy regulation: conventional power
- Industry focus > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- 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 investment trusts (REITs)
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Industry focus > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Industry focus > Energy: renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > International trade
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Industry focus > Healthcare: life sciences
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense