Carol Anne Huff

is a partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her primary practice areas include capital markets transactions and public company mergers and acquisitions. Carol Anne's practice focuses on representing private equity funds and their portfolio companies in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures involving public companies and corporate financing transactions involving the sale of securities. Carol Anne has significant experience in the following types of transactions: going-private transactions, public and private mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, high yield debt offerings, initial public offerings, tender offers, PIPE transactions, spin-offs and transactions involving special purpose acquisition companies. She also has extensive experience counseling public companies with regard to securities regulations and other corporate matters, including SEC compliance, Exchange Act periodic reporting and disclosure issues, Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, corporate governance best practices, fiduciary duty and special committee issues, stock option plans and Rule 144 issues, rights plans and anti-takeover strategies, stock exchange requirements and Section 16 matters.