Faculty Member Biography

Paul Barker

Partner, ESG & Impact Practice, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Paul is a partner in the Bay Area office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP and a member of the Firm’s ESG & Impact Practice Group, which advises some of the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms, corporations, and project sponsors and lenders on complex and evolving ESG issues.

Paul is an experienced deal counsel and international litigator. He has a particular focus on climate change law and policy, which intersects regulatory, transactional and litigation practice. Complementing this work, Paul is an adjunct at Columbia University in New York, where he teaches a class on business and climate change.

Paul Barker, Partner, ESG & Impact Practice, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

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