Juliesa D. Edwards

Associate Debt Finance

Houston +1 713-836-3358

Juliesa D. Edwards

Overview

Juliesa Edwards is a debt finance associate in the Houston office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice focuses on the representation of private equity funds, financial institutions and commercial borrowers in financial transactions of all types, including acquisition financings, syndicated financings, reserve-based financings, reorganizations, workouts and debt restructurings.

Before joining Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Juliesa specialized in subscription-secured credit facilities as a finance associate at Haynes and Boone, LLP.

Since joining Kirkland:

  • Parker Drilling Company and certain of its affiliates in creditor negotiations achieving a pre-arranged Chapter 11 filing reducing the company’s outstanding funded debt by more than $375 million and in obtaining a debtor-in-possession credit facility and, upon exit from Chapter 11, a first lien asset-based credit facility and a second lien term loan facility in conjunction with a simultaneous international restructuring.

Prior to joining Kirkland:

  • Represented lenders in subscription-secured credit facilities ranging from $50 million to $1.3 billion.

  • Represented lenders and borrowers in middle market revolving, term, and letter of credit loan facilities ranging from $2.5 million to $128 million.

Summer InternHonorable Fredericka H. WickerLouisiana Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

Associate at Haynes and Boone, LLP

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Memberships & Affiliations

American Bar Association

Texas State Bar Association

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2016Texas

Education

  • Vanderbilt Law SchoolJ.D.2016

    Phi Delta Phi

  • Tulane UniversityB.S.M., Legal Studies in Business & Managementcum laude2013

    Alpha Lambda Delta

    Phi Eta Sigma

    National Society of Collegiate Scholars