Anna L. Grilley

Associate Restructuring

Chicago +1 312 862 3839

Overview

Anna Grilley is a restructuring associate in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

Frontera Generation Holdings LLC — Represented Frontera Generation Holdings LLC and five of its affiliates in their prearranged Chapter 11 cases filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Frontera owns and operates the only U.S.-based power plant that sells all of its 526MW/year power production to the Mexican wholesale market. The restructuring, which had nearly-universal lender support, enabled Frontera to obtain $70 million of new liquidity through a DIP-to-exit facility, slash more than $850 million of its $944 million debt load, and pay its trade claims in full.

Judicial ClerkHonorable Judge John W. deGravellesUnited States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana2019–2020

Judicial ClerkHonorable Judge Robert H. JacobvitzUnited States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Mexico2017–2019

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Thought Leadership

Publications

Anna L. Grilley, Arbitrary and Unnecessary Quarantine: Building International and Natural Infrastructures to Protect Human Rights During Public Health Emergencies, 34 Wis. Int'l L.J. 915 (2017).

Joshua Horwitz, Anna Grilley, and Orla Kennedy, Beyond the Academic Journal: Unfreezing Misconceptions About Mental Illness and Gun Violence Through Knowledge Translation to Decision Makers, 33 Behav. Sci. & L. 356 (2015).

Joshua Horwitz, Anna Grilley & Kelly Ward, Preventing Gun Violence: Decreasing Access During Times of Crisis, in Gun Violence and Mental Illness, 317 (Liza H. Gold & Robert I. Simon ed., 2016).

Emma E. McGinty et al., Using Research Evidence to Reframe the Policy Debate Around Mental Illness and Guns: Process and Recommendations, 104 Am. J. Pub. Health e22 (2014).

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • Not admitted to practice in Illinois
  • 2017, Wisconsin

Education

  • University of Wisconsin Law SchoolJ.D.cum laude2017

    Order of the Coif

    Dean’s List

    Senior Articles Editor, Wisconsin International Law Journal

    Macaulay Award for Excellence and Leadership in Contract Law

    The Bercovici Prize for Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy

    Best Performance in Legislation and Regulation; Best Performance in Selected Problems in Constitutional Law: First Amendment

    Law Fellow, Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics

  • The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthM.S., Public Health in Health Policy2014
    Delta Omega, the Public Health National Honors Society
  • University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.S., English2012