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Polina Liberman

Polina Liberman

USA 2026

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Polina is a partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She advises clients on a broad range of complex corporate and commercial tax matters with a particular focus on private equity and insurance industry transactions including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, separations, joint ventures, recapitalizations and debt and equity restructurings.

Polina has worked on numerous private equity, LBO, merger and acquisition, restructuring and insurance related transactions ranging from several million dollars to several billion dollars for clients including: Audax Group, Bain Capital, Centerbridge, CIVC, GTCR, Flexpoint Ford, Levine Leichtman, Waud Capital and others. She has also represented distressed public and private companies in connection with bankruptcy and restructuring transactions.

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Polina is respected tax attorney who proficiently handles an array of non-contentious tax matters including mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. She has particular expertise in the private equity and insurance sectors.

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