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Darren Littlejohn

Darren Littlejohn

Global 2026

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Derivatives

USA

5 years ranked

About

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Practice Areas

Darren Littlejohn is a partner in the Complex Securitizations Practice Group in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He counsels clients on a wide array of synthetic, financing and derivative products and structures. Darren represents a diverse client base across multiple asset classes, including asset managers, lenders, private equity sponsors, corporations, pension funds and market infrastructure providers.

Darren has deep knowledge of the regulatory framework applicable to his transactional practice, and he regularly provides standalone regulatory advice in addition to his core transactional work. He is highly valued by his clients for his structuring and execution experience, which is informed by a decade of in-house experience working at Goldman Sachs. Darren has extensive experience with the insolvency regimes applicable to structured products and derivatives, and he regularly writes advice and opinions on all aspects of bankruptcy laws applicable to his practice area.

Career

Queens University BA Political Studies, 1995

University of Oxford BA (Jurisprudence), Rhodes Scholar, 1998

Admitted as Attorney-at-Law in New York, 2003

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Derivatives - USA

Band 2
Band 2

Individual Editorial
Darren Littlejohn has a great sell-side dealer practice and is very knowledgeable on the regulatory side, regularly advising on legislative reforms.

Strengths

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  • Darren is a fantastic lawyer from a technical standpoint with a significant breadth of relevant expertise and he is pragmatic in his analysis of relevant issues.

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  • Darren has tremendous availability in the market and has developed deep knowledge of the market. He has a productive but also easygoing and thoughtful demeanor.

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