Donald E. Rocap

Donald Rocap is a partner in Tax Group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, located in the Chicago office. His practice focuses primarily on the tax aspects of business transactions, with particular focus on structuring mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, venture capital and mezzanine investments, and private equity fund formations. He is a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School and is a coauthor of Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts, by Martin D. Ginsburg, Jack S. Levin and Donald E. Rocap, and a coauthor of Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Entrepreneurial Transactions, by Jack S. Levin and Donald E. Rocap. He has been selected as one of America's Leading Lawyers for Business in Tax by Chambers USA every year since 2004 and as one of The World's Leading Lawyers for Business in Tax by Chambers Global each year since 2002. Mr. Rocap received his undergraduate degree from Duke University and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif.  Prior to joining Kirkland & Ellis, he was with the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Tax Policy, serving as Deputy Tax Legislative Counsel (Regulatory Affairs).