Rafael A. Grillo Avila

Associate Debt Finance

Bay Area – San Francisco +1 415 439 1411

Practices

Overview

Rafael Grillo Avila is a debt finance associate in the Bay Area office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP advising clients on a variety of financing transactions. Prior to joining Kirkland, Rafael represented both borrowers and lenders, as well as handling a range of general corporate matters.

Thought Leadership

Publications

Contributing Author, “Legal reform as a catalyst for social enterprise: an international social enterprise law & policy report,” Catalyst 2030, January 2022

Author, “Defining, Supporting, and Scoping an Impact-Based Approach to Maui’s ‘Functional Equivalence’ Standard for Clean Water Act Permitting Standard for Clean Water Act Permitting,” Ecology Law Quarterly, 2021

Author, “Analysis of a proposed mechanism for carbon-neutral growth in international aviation,” Elsevier, June 2016

Author, “Design of a Market-Based Measure REDD+ in ICAO, Ready for Takeoff,” Carbon & Climate Law Review, 2016

Seminars

Panelist, “Buying Low, Flying High? Aviation, Climate Action, and Market,” Latin American Carribbean Carbon Forum, 2015

Memberships & Affiliations

American Bar Association

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

2022California

Languages

English
Spanish

Education

University of California, BerkeleyM.A., Jurisprudence & Social Policy2022

Data Science for the 21st Century National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Recipient

Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley Legal Studies Department
University of California, BerkeleyJ.D.2022
Berkeley Business Law Journal
Princeton UniversityA.B., Politics; Chinese Language & Culture, Environmental Studies, Finance & Statistics and Machine Learning Minors2014
Political Economy Certificate