Jared Axelrod, P.C.

Jared Axelrod is a super-star CLO deal lawyer… [he] has first in class knowledge and skills, and is extraordinarily reachable and responsive to clients.” - The Legal 500 U.S., 2025

Jared Axelrod, a partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP and a co-head of the Structured Capital & Insurance Solutions team, leads the Firm’s collateralized loan obligation (CLO) platform. Jared advises clients on negotiating and structuring CLOs and other complex securitizations and has nearly a decade of experience advising clients within the sector. He has advised domestic and international asset managers and issuers across a wide variety of CLO transactions, as well as other complex structured credit financing arrangements, including private credit securitizations, rated note feeders and insurance solution products. Jared has extensive experience in the various regulatory regimes applicable to securitizations, including U.S. and EU Risk Retention Rules, the Volcker Rule and the Investment Advisers Act. He has also leveraged his significant experience in rating agency methodology to assist clients in developing novel rated securitization structures.

Jared also works closely will the Firm’s Investment Funds Practice Group where he advises sponsors on the formation of CLO equity funds and other credit funds, as well as continuation credit fund transactions in the private funds secondary market.