Erin Benson serves as the Chair and Managing Partner of Kirkland & Ellis and a member of its Executive Committee. Her practice includes representing investment banking firms, private equity firms, and companies in public and private offerings of securities, restructurings, bridge loans, and merger and acquisition transactions, with a particular emphasis on issuances of debt securities and leveraged transactions. She has represented a broad range of clients, including sports team and LBO companies, such as Dallas Mavericks , New York Jets , New York Yankees ,Delta Airlines , BC Partners, The Citigroup, Cinven, EQT, PAI Partners, and Nordic Capital, and investment banks such as JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs.