Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Private Equity Funds (Including Venture Capital)

Matthew Howard is a partner in the Investment Funds Practice Group at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. For more than twenty years, Matt has advised his investment fund clients on asset management matters, including the structuring and offering of private investment funds and other alternative investment vehicles that have raised billions of dollars across asset classes and geographies.

In addition, to his work on fundraisings, clients rely on Matt’s counsel and strategic advice on a variety of matters core to their businesses, including liquidity solutions, strategic investments, spin-outs and transformative acquisitions, management company arrangements, carried interest plans and other incentive arrangements.

Former partner, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

New York University School of Law, J.D.

Swarthmore College, B.A.