Kirkland & Ellis LLP

The ‘highly strategic, commercial, and efficient’ team at Kirkland & Ellis LLP provides formidable representation of corporates, private equity firms and individual officers across the panoply of securities class actions, shareholder derivative matters and M&A disputes. As well as handling its fair share of traditional 10-b 5 stock drop and IPO-related class actions, the team, which has a particularly pervasive presence on the East coast and Midwest of the country, has been at the vanguard of recent trends informing actions brought by the plaintiff bar, including with regard to ESG and SPACs. New York-based attorney Sandra Goldstein combines superb substantive legal knowledge with courtroom expertise and regularly prevails on behalf of defendant companies at both the trial and appellate court levels concerning dispositive motions, motions for preliminary injunctions and expedited discovery. Drawing upon vast expertise in private practice and as a high-ranking justice department official, Chicago-based Mark Filip is very skilled at guiding companies through DOJ probes, including with regard to potential securities fraud, and is skilled at handling parallel governmental investigations and private class action litigation. In New York, Stefan Atkinson has a broad-based securities litigation practice that includes a considerable amount of recent work arising in the aftermath of de-SPAC mergers.