Best Lawyers in Illinois, United States for Corporate Law
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Abe K. Wehbi is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law and Venture Capital Law. Abe K., who practices law in Chicago, Illinois, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Abe K. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and le...
Kailey Grant is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate Law. Kailey, who practices law in Chicago, Illinois, has been recognized since 2024. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Kailey is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
With years of training and practical experience in the United States and Europe, Joost van Rossum brings an international perspective to complex commercial litigation and white collar criminal matters, particularly those involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), False Claims Act (FCA), and other financial fraud allegations. Clients trust Joost to undertake deep research into the legal and technical aspects of their issues as well as investigate underlying facts and issues, establish...
Jonathan Adair is a litigation partner in Kirkland's Chicago office. His practice focuses on complex litigation at both the trial and appellate levels. He has represented clients in litigation matters across a broad array of subjects, including insurance coverage, toxic tort, foreign judgment enforcement, commercial law, M&A disputes, False Claims Act, antitrust, bankruptcy, and SEC enforcement. Jonathan spent nine months working at the litigation department of a large corporation. He man...
Garrett Lorentz is a corporate partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he concentrates on complex business transactions for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as public and private companies, with a focus on structuring, negotiating and managing leveraged buyouts, strategic mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, recapitalizations, executive compensation and incentive equity arrangements and capital investments, ranging in s...
Nicole Briody is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law and Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law. Nicole, who practices law in Chicago, Illinois, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Nicole is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Mikaela Heck is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law. Mikaela, who practices law in Chicago, Illinois, has been recognized since 2026. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Mikaela is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
As an associate in Barack Ferrazzano’s Corporate & Securities and Luxury Groups, Jim strives to understand his clients’ operations and business objectives to provide them with thoughtful, world-class counseling and guidance on transactional, corporate and securities law matters. Jim’s representation often takes the form of providing his clients’ with practical, efficient, and creative solutions to achieve their most crucial strategic goals, including counseling his...
Rob is an associate in the Corporate & Securities practice group. He advises clients on matters regarding corporate law, including corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions and entity formation. He also counsels clients on complex commercial agreements and corporate governance. His experience includes negotiating and preparing side letter and subscription agreements with investors, assisting in composing private placement memoranda and limited partnership agreements, and drafting c...
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Recognition by Best Lawyers is based entirely on peer review. Our methodology is designed to capture, as accurately as possible, the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area.
The Process
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