Mary Beth Houlihan

Mary Beth Houlihan is a sustainability partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She advises public and private companies, financial institutions and private equity clients on a wide range of complex and evolving sustainability matters. Her practice includes legal and regulatory compliance, responding to investor demands, developing sustainability strategies, enhancing governance and policies, and navigating sustainability disclosures 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 strategies and communications, investor negotiations, and regulatory compliance and enforcement. This includes both public and private asset managers, with a particular focus on energy, infrastructure and real-estate strategies. Her 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.