Morgan Hill

Since joining Kirkland, Morgan has worked on the following matters:

• Thomas H. Lee Partners and its portfolio company AutoStore on its $12.4 billion IPO on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
• PizzaExpress on its successful refinancing, including an offering of £335 million of bonds and entry into its new super senior revolving credit facility.
• CT Investment GmbH in connection with the offering of €470 million in aggregate principal amount of its 5.500% Senior Secured Notes due 2026. 
• Clear Channel International B.V. in connection with the offering of $375 million in aggregate principal amount of its 6.625% Senior Secured Notes due 2025.
• Merlin Entertainments Group, which is owned by Blackstone, KIRKBI and CPP Investments, in connection with the offering of €500 million of high yield bonds.
• Techem Verwaltungsgesellschaft 675 mbH, a portfolio company of Partners Group AG, on its offering of €1,145 million 2% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 and concurrent term loan B repricing.
• Blackstone on financing aspects of the recommended £4.7 billion cash offer for Merlin Entertainments, a global leader in location-based, family entertainment, including $410 million 6.625% Senior Notes due 2027 and €370 million 4.500% Senior Notes due 2027.
• Smurfit Kappa Group in connection with its offering of €750 million 1.500% Senior Notes due 2027.
• KKR on the financing aspects of its takeover offer for TelePizza Group, S.A., including €335 million of high yield bonds.
• Smurfit Kappa Group in connection with its offering of €400 million 2.875% Senior Notes due 2026.
• Partners Group AG on the financing aspects of their acquisition of German energy services provider Techem from Macquarie, including the offering by Blitz F18-674 GmbH of €465 million 6% Senior Notes due 2026.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Morgan worked on the following matters:

• HSBC, Lloyds, Barclays, Credit Suisse and NatWest Markets as initial purchasers in connection with the offering by ZPG Plc of its £200 million 3.750% notes due 2023.
• Anglo American plc in connection with the offering of its $300 million 3.750% senior notes due 2022 and its $700 million 4.750% senior notes due 2027.
• The initial purchasers, led by Citigroup, HSBC and Barclays on Sibanye Gold Limited's $1.05 billion senior notes offering.
• Ardagh Packaging Finance plc and Ardagh Holdings USA Inc., as co-issuers, both subsidiaries of Ardagh Packaging Holdings Limited, in connection with the offering of their $1 billion 6.000% senior notes.
• Ardagh Packaging Finance plc and Ardagh Holdings USA Inc, as co-issuers, both subsidiaries of Ardagh Packaging Holdings Limited (Ardagh), in connection with their $2.2 billion notes offering. The offering included $715 million 4.250% senior secured notes due 2022, €750 million 2.750% senior secured notes due 2024 and $700 million 6.000% senior notes due 2025.
• J.P. Morgan, BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Oddo, in connection with Autodis S.A.’s offering of its €260 million 4.375% senior secured fixed rate notes due 2022 and €260 million senior secured floating rate notes due 2022.
• Merrill Lynch International, DNB Markets, Lloyds Bank, Société Générale, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Credit Industriel et Commercial, Credit Suisse, KBC, Morgan Stanley, RBS and UniCredit in connection with Thomas Cook's offering of its €750 million 6.25% senior notes due 2022.
• Naviera Armas, a subsidiary of Bahía de las Isletas, in connection with its offering of €232 million floating rate senior secured notes due 2023.
• Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan and BNP Paribas in connection with the €239 million offering of 9.000% / 9.750% pay-if-you-can notes by Dakar Finance, a company controlled by Bain Capital. The notes partially financed the buyout by Bain Capital of Autodistribution.
• Barclays and J.P. Morgan as solicitation agents in connection with the consent solicitation by Swissport Group to amend certain provisions of the indenture governing its €400 million 6.750% Senior Secured Notes due 2021 and €290 million 9.750% Senior Notes due 2022.
• Citi and Credit Suisse as dealer managers in connection with the tender offer by Alcatel-Lucent for the repurchase of up to $300 million of its outstanding $1 billion 6.750% Senior Notes due 2020.
• Apple Inc. in connection with its offering of £750 million 3.05% Notes due 2029 and £500 million 3.60% Notes due 2042.
• J.P. Morgan as the initial purchaser in connection with the offering by HP Pelzer Holding GmbH of €50 million in aggregate principal amount of its 7.500% Senior Secured Notes due 2021.

Shearman & Sterling, London

• Associate, 2014–2018

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, New York

• Associate, 2011–2014
• Summer Associate, 2008