Transactional Challenge

Following the completion of the academic year, the Kirkland & Ellis Corporate Lab hosts its annual Transactional Challenge for rising second-year law students to provide exposure to transactional practice. The Challenge allows students to compete against each other in a series of “real world” transactional corporate exercises. The top participants are recognized for their accomplishments and have an opportunity to network with senior in-house counsel and law firm partners during a post-competition reception.

Approximately half of the rising second-year law students participated in the 2016 Corporate Lab Transactional Challenge. Exercises for the 2016 Challenge included revising a confidentiality agreement, marking up an engagement letter, and drafting an executive summary of a due diligence memorandum.

We are very happy to announce the names of the winners and finalists in the 2016 Corporate Lab Transactional Challenge. Congratulations!

In alphabetical order, the winners of the 2016 Kirkland & Ellis Corporate Lab Transactional Challenge are as follows.

  • Jared Beim
  • Kristin Bisely
  • Mark Buente
  • Andrew Czaja
  • Joshua Davids
  • Nick Greiner
  • Jinn-Min Lin
  • Nina Sobierajski
  • William Soule
  • Madeleine Tardif
  • Phillip Thomas

In alphabetical order, the finalists (i.e., runners up) of the 2016 Kirkland & Ellis Corporate Lab Transactional Challenge are as follows.

  • Samantha Bronner
  • Mark Burnside
  • Lauren Croft
  • Michelle Dang
  • Andrew Duble
  • Wallace Feng
  • Stephen Ford
  • Jordan Hill
  • Loren Kole
  • Jun Oh Lee
  • Darien Pun
  • John Rizner
  • John Tienken