Jillian R. Gautier
Partner Debt Finance
Overview
Jillian Gautier is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Jillian has extensive experience representing private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers and lenders in various types of complex secured and unsecured lending transactions. Her practice currently focuses on knowledge, markets and strategy for the U.S. Debt Finance Practice Group, with broad responsibility for knowledge resources, market intelligence/strategy, attorney education, client engagement and thought leadership.
Experience
Prior Experience
Goodwin Procter LLP
- Knowledge Management Lawyer — Debt Finance, 2021–2023
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
- Adjunct Professor of Law, 2016–Present
- Executive Director of the Heyman Center for Corporate Law and Governance, 2015–2021
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
- Associate, 2010–2015
Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA)
- Staff Attorney, 2009–2010
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Thought Leadership
Publications
Author, “The LSTA Weighs In: Amicus Briefs and Comment Letters in a Transformational Era,” The Loan Market Chronicle, 2010
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2010New York
Education
- Seton Hall University School of LawJ.D.magna cum laude2009
Order of the Coif
Articles Editor, Seton Hall Law Review
- The University of ScrantonB.S., Philosophy & Political Sciencesumma cum laude2006