Stewart Kagan is joining Cadwalader from the
Kagan specialises in leveraged buyouts and has negotiated more than $40bn (£20.3bn) in financing for private equity deals. Prior to joining Akin Gump in 2006, he had been a partner at O'Melveny & Myers, which he joined in 2002 when that firm acquired private equity boutique O'Sullivan.
Separately, Geoffrey Levin is joining Cadwalader from Kirkland & Ellis, where he was a partner specialising in the representation of private equity sponsors and fund general partners. He has frequently represented leading private equity shop CVC Capital Partners, most recently in its $2bn (£1.01bn) acquisition of chemical distributor Univar last year.
Levin will also be based at Cadwalader's Manhattan headquarters.
The hires come with Cadwalader currently making a major push into private equity. In February, the firm recruited Ronald Hopkinson, the former private equity chief at Latham & Watkins, to head up the practice.
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