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Securities: Litigation - USA - Nationwide

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What the Team is Known For

Kirkland & Ellis is a well-regarded firm with significant nationwide securities litigation capabilities. It handles the full range of securities disputes including M&A litigation, securities class actions and shareholder derivative suits. The firm acts for an impressive range of issuer-side clients, as well as their officers and directors, and possesses noteworthy experience of accounting firm representation. It also has a significant practice representing private equity firms, often in derivative and fiduciary duty cases.

Notable practitioners

New York-based Sandra Goldstein is a key contact for the firm's securities litigation practice.

Work Highlights

  • Kirkland & Ellis continued to represent Acadia Healthcare Company in putative class action litigation alleging securities law violations regarding Acadia's admissions, length of stay and billing practices at certain inpatient psychiatric facilities.

Strengths

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They have an incredibly deep bench of high-performing players.

Securities: Litigation respondent
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K&E's team understands our business well and gives sound strategic and legal advice.

Securities: Litigation respondent
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Kirkland & Ellis does a great job at strategizing. Its attorneys are detail-oriented and doing a great job at seeing both the big picture and the details necessary to get to the strategic goal.

Securities: Litigation respondent
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Kirkland & Ellis brings really insightful views and top-notch litigation strategy. The firm always has lots of great people it can throw at matters, and its commercial awareness is some of the best in the industry.

Securities: Litigation respondent
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