Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Government Relations

Raya Treiser is a partner in the Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations Practice Group in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. With over a decade of public and private sector experience, Raya advises clients on navigating high-stakes government investigations, legal and reputational crises, and complex federal permitting processes. Prior to private practice, Raya served in the Obama White House and the Department of the Interior where she helped shape federal energy and climate policies. Since joining Kirkland, Raya has represented Fortune 500 companies and some of the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms and energy infrastructure developers in responding to Congressional and state Attorney General inquiries, conducting ESG and DEI risk assessments, developing strategy in response to high-profile crisis situations, and developing federal permitting strategy for large and complex infrastructure projects.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Raya was a partner in another large law firm.

Prior to rejoining private practice, Raya served as part of a core leadership team at the Department of the Interior responsible for managing the response to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. She went on to serve in the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, where she led efforts to streamline the permitting of renewable energy and transmission projects on public lands, coordinate the permitting of energy projects in Alaska, and shape the first offshore wind lease areas along the Atlantic Coast. Raya was then selected by White House staff to lead a government-wide initiative to improve the federal review of large energy and infrastructure projects. In this role, she spearheaded a 13-agency initiative to improve federal permitting, which resulted in a government-wide plan, now codified in federal law under Title 41 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST-41).

Georgetown University Law CenterJ.D., cum laude, 2009

Sciences Po & Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Master in Global Business Law, 2008

Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service, B.S., magna cum laude, 2005