Brice Lipman: 00:004
Hi, I'm Brice Lipman, I work at Kirkland & Ellis in Houston as an associate attorney. In addition to going to Booth, I also went to the law school and did the joint JD/MBA Program at the University of Chicago. When I was at the investment firm before attending graduate school, I saw that so many issues have business and legal components intertwined. And so I thought if I could get that education at a school like the University of Chicago, I would take it 100 percent. My job currently is we advise energy, oil, and gas companies on transactions. There's a lot of data that needs to be analyzed, so from a legal perspective, you have to analyze how the numbers flow through their contracts and whether that makes sense for our client to buy that company based on that data. From a business perspective, you have to understand whether the transaction makes sense in the marketplace.
Brice Lipman: 00:48
We're a critical component of that here at Kirkland, and I definitely use that part of my Booth education every day. Houston is really the energy capital of the world. It's constantly changing. It's fast-moving, so I think the ability to adapt quickly and adapt to an understanding of data quickly is critical. For Booth alumni here, it's great because we are all participating in that in different facets. We all interact and are able to kind of trade understanding of the industry based on where we're seeing things in our different perspectives, and that's why you see so many Booth alumni who are so successful in Houston and in the energy industry worldwide.