Kirkland & Ellis LLP

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.