Kirkland & Ellis draws star private-equity lawyer from Weil’s Boston office, along with three dozen other attorneys
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Nee is a co-leader of Weil’s private equity practice, and co-managing partner of the Boston office. She’s been there for nearly 25 years.
For weeks, the big question around Weil, Gotshal & Manges was: Which partner will leave next? Now, with the firm’s unusual dissolution underway, the question has shifted to: Where is everyone going?
In Boston, the answer for Ramona Nee, one of the firm’s most prominent attorneys, arrived last week. That’s when Kirkland & Ellis, the largest law firm in the US based on annual revenue, announced that a group of 40 Weil lawyers including Nee would be joining Kirkland in January. Nee specializes in private equity deals, and earlier this year had been reportedly poised to take over management of the 1,200-attorney firm before apparently opting out of the promotion.
Nee is a co-leader of Weil’s private equity practice, and co-managing partner of the Boston office. She’s been there for nearly 25 years.
In a brief statement, Nee described Kirkland as an “outstanding fit” for her clients, and those of her colleagues. “The collegiality and collaboration extended by Kirkland,” Nee said, “during this period is very meaningful to me and the team.”
Other Boston partners making the move to Kirkland include office co-managing partner Jakub Wronski, Emily Willey, and Michael Messina — all in Weil’s private equity practice. Their commutes won’t change that much: Weil’s Boston office is at 1001 Boylston St (the tower with the CarGurus logo on the roof), and Kirkland’s is in what’s known as the John Hancock Tower, aka 200 Clarendon St., about a mile away in the Back Bay.
This is an installment of our weekly Bold Types column about the movers and shakers on Boston’s business scene.
Jon Chesto can be reached at jon.chesto@globe.com. Follow him @jonchesto.
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