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Environment: Mainly Transactional

USA Guide 2026 : USA - Nationwide

Kirkland & Ellis

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Chambers Review

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Environment: Mainly Transactional - USA - Nationwide

Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Kirkland & Ellis is an established firm with a broad reach, supporting large industrial clients across the energy and engineering sectors on complex environmental, regulatory and transactional issues. The firm offers particular strength in enforcement strategy, toxic tort risk assessment and the environmental aspects of major transactions, alongside extensive experience managing serious contamination and remediation matters.

Notable practitioners

Jonathan Kidwell out of the firm's Dallas office and Sara Michaelchuck Webber based in DC, are key contacts at the firm.

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Work Highlights

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Kirkland & Ellis advised Amcor PLC on the environmental aspects of its all-stock merger with Berry Global Group Inc.

Strengths

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I find Kirkland and Ellis to be an excellent firm, it has a deep bench of attorneys, all of whom have significant environment law knowledge. The firm is able to hone in quickly on the issues that need to be resolved in order to close a deal.
Environment: Mainly Transactional respondentUSA
What makes Kirkland really unique is they get not only the environmental issues, but they also understand risk. They know what needs to be done to position risk.
Environment: Mainly Transactional respondentUSA

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