Christopher W. Kirkham has been named a partner in the San Francico office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He joins the firm from O’Melveny & Myers, where he was formerly a corporate finance partner.

Kirkham, a specialist in debt finance, joins the firm’s mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance teams. Wilson Sonsini advised on approximately 150 M&A transactions and over 1,000 private financings last year, the firm said in a press release.

“We see substantial opportunities in this area…particularly as we meet increasing demand from our private equity clients,” said CEO Steve Bochner.

  

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Wilson Sonsini was founded in Silicon Valley and has a presence in Austin, New York, Palo Alto, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Shanghai and Washington D.C.