Mary Beth Houlihan

Mary Beth Houlihan is a sustainability partner at Kirkland & Ellis in New York. She focuses on advising clients with respect to complex and dynamic sustainability issues, including legal and regulatory compliance considerations, investor demands, and voluntary reporting frameworks.

Mary Beth is the go-to sustainability counsel for numerous asset managers, providing them with advice on their firm-wide ESG policies and programs, commitments and disclosures, fund-level sustainability strategies and communications, investor negotiations, and sustainability-regulatory compliance and enforcement. This includes both public and private asset managers, with a particular focus on energy, infrastructure and real-estate strategies.

Mary Beth’s sustainability practice builds upon almost two decades of experience providing counseling to financial institutions, investment funds, and private and public company clients in hundreds of complex corporate, real estate, and financial transactions, including helping clients to evaluate and address physical and transition risks from climate change, product and supply chain risks, legacy environmental issues, and the potential business implications of pending and proposed changes to sustainability regulations.

JD, Columbia University (2009); BA, Claremont McKenna College (2004)