Kevin Crews Bio

Kevin is a founding partner of the Kirkland & Ellis Dallas office, joining in 2018 to help establish the new office. With nearly 20 years of legal experience, Kevin’s practice focuses on significant M&A/private equity transactions with a primary emphasis on: (i) mergers and acquisitions, including auctions, carve-outs and divestitures; (ii) joint ventures, including related greenfield and project development; and (iii) equity investments, including preferred equity (debt-like and convertible/participating), structured equity (with and without back-leverage), recapitalizations and other complex equity holder arrangements. Kevin regularly advises leading private equity sponsors, including TPG, Morgan Stanley Infrastructure, CPPIB, Ontario Teachers’ and Tailwater Capital, as well as strategic clients. Clients have described Kevin as “exceptional in every way,” delivering “great market knowledge” and “highly commercial” legal advice, and “always there for you with the right answer, no matter the situation” in connection with his recognition in various national industry publications, including The Legal 500 U.S. Kevin has broad experience negotiating and closing transactions across many industries, including (without limitation) energy, infrastructure, logistics, industrials, transportation, real estate, forestry/timber, business services, consumer, apparel, manufacturing, technology, media and telecom. In the energy space, where clients have described Kevin as “an advisor in all aspects of energy investing,” Kevin’s practice covers traditional midstream, upstream, downstream and oilfield services, and extends to all current and emerging energy transition and climate verticals. Prior to Columbia Law School, Kevin worked in the New York-based M&A department at a leading bulge bracket investment bank.