Sumner Fontaine is a debt finance associate in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Sumner advises private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies and other borrowers in a wide range of complex secured and unsecured financings, leveraged buyouts, debtor-in-possession and exit financings, bridge-debt facilities, asset-based financings, first-lien, second-lien, unitranche, mezzanine and subordinated debt financings.