Donald Rocap
Partner, Tax Group, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Donald Rocap is a partner in the tax group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in the Chicago. His practice focuses 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 co-author of "Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts" with Martin D. Ginsburg and Jack S. Levin, and a special editor of "Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Entrepreneurial Transactions" by Jack S. Levin. He has been selected as one of America's "Leading Lawyers for Business in Tax" by Chambers USA every year since 2004. Rocap received his undergraduate degree from Duke University and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School. Prior to joining Kirkland & Ellis, he was deputy tax legislative counsel for regulatory affairs with the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Tax Policy.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.