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Steven Napolitano is a veteran corporate, private equity, and restructuring attorney with more than 40 years of experience advising companies, financial sponsors, family offices, boards, and management teams on complex transactions, financings, recapitalizations, and restructurings. A retired senior partner of Kirkland & Ellis, Steven was a partner in the firm’s M&A/Private Equity Practice Group from 2018 through 2025 and previously served as Co-Chair of DLA Piper’s U.S. Private Equity Practice. Steven brings extensive experience in restructuring, distressed transactions, corporate governance, M&A, and complex capital structures to the firm’s Chapter 11 and postconfirmation work. His restructuring experience includes representing Vertellus Specialties in its Chapter 11 process and sale of substantially all of its assets, as well as advising IPC Systems in an out-of-court restructuring of more than $1 billion of funded debt that reduced leverage by over $400 million and provided $125 million of new capital. Steven has also advised companies facing significant financial and operational challenges, including Adeptus Health in the restructuring of hospital joint ventures and its senior credit facility and the sale of its senior indebtedness, and True Health Diagnostics in the restructuring of its senior debt facility. His broader transactional practice has included leveraged buyouts, debt financings, joint ventures, recapitalizations, and board-level fiduciary and governance matters.Steven has served as lead counsel on numerous private and public transactions involving complex regulatory and financial considerations. He received his J.D. from Boston University School of Law and his B.A. in Economics from the University of Notre Dame.