Corey Fox

Practice Areas

Corey Fox is a partner in Kirkland's corporate transactional group. His practice is primarily focused on counseling private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in structuring, negotiating and executing complex business transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, going-private transactions, purchases and sales through bankruptcy, carve-out transactions, corporate restructurings and recapitalizations, as well as general corporate matters.

Corey has led representative matters ranging in size from several million dollars to $10 billion in a variety of industries, including technology, computer software and hardware, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, education, retail, apparel, food, agriculture, restaurant, consumer services, industrial and automotive. Corey has handled such matters on behalf of, among other distinguished clients, Thoma Bravo, Centerbridge Partners, Sun Capital Partners, Paine Schwartz Partners, SK Capital Partners, Shore Capital Partners, New Water Capital, and Soundcore Capital Partners.

Corey is Co-Chair of Kirkland’s Firmwide Finance Committee and Chicago Associate Review Committee and a member of Kirkland’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee; Senior Income Partner Review Committee; Associate Review Committee; and Operations Committee.

Personal

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2004; University of Michigan, B.A., American Culture with Distinction, 1999