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Jon A. Ballis is the Chairman of Kirkland & Ellis, the largest law firm in the world by revenue. In 2018 Ballis was named to succeed Jeffrey Hammes as Chairman begining in February, 2020.

Jon A. Ballis
Born1970
Alma materLehigh University (B.A.), Harvard Law School (J.D.)
EmployerKirkland & Ellis

Early Life and Education

Ballis grew up in the Chicago area. Ballis attended Highland Park High School, where he played basketball with Jonathan Gray, now COO of Blackstone Inc. In 1987, Ballis went to attend Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, graduating with High Honors in 1991. He then matriculated to Harvard Law School, graduating cum laude in 1994.

Career

Ballis began working at law firm Sidley Austin in 1994 and earned partner in 2002. He joined Kirkland & Ellis as a partner in 2005. At Kirkland & Ellis he has concentrated on private equity deals. He has handled legal services for major private equity companies including Bain, Blackstone, Centerbridge, Cerberus, Hellman & Friedman, KKR, Madison Dearborn, Pritzker Group, Silver Lake, TPG, and Thomas H. Lee.

As chairman he has continued Kirkland & Ellis's increasing focus on advising private equity deal s and poaching revenue producing lawyers from other firms by incentivizing them with high pay. Kirkland & Ellis has the second highest profit per partner of any United States law firm.

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