Kirkland & Ellis's Chicago practice employs 19 tax partners and seven fee earners. The firm does not have practice or group heads, as such. Jeffrey Sheffield, Todd Maynes, Don Rocap, Natalie Keller and William Welke are the senior partners in the practice. ...
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Kirkland & Ellis's Chicago practice employs 19 tax partners and seven fee earners. The firm does not have practice or group heads, as such. Jeffrey Sheffield, Todd Maynes, Don Rocap, Natalie Keller and William Welke are the senior partners in the practice. Competitors praise Jack Levin for his M&A expertise. "He is top notch," said one rival. In June 2011, it added two new partners to its team: Edward Schneidman and William Levy, both partners at Mayer Brown with extensive experience in real estate. Kirkland & Ellis's strongest practice area has been private equity, but they also specialise in energy and real estate. In March 2012, Kirkland advised Constellation Energy Group, a long-time client, on its $7.9-billion merger with Chicago-based energy company Exelon in a stock-for-stock transaction. Kirkland also represented Oklahoma-based Tronox in its $3.4-billion acquisition in June 2012 of the mineral sands operations of Exxaro Resources, a South African coal and iron ore mining company. Exxaro will have a 38.5% stake in the new company, New Tronox, which will be the world's largest fully-integrated producer of titanium ore and titanium dioxide.
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