Jocelyn A. Hirsch, P.C.

Partner Debt Finance

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Jocelyn A. Hirsch, P.C.

Practices

Overview

Jocelyn Hirsch is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP whose practice focuses primarily on the representation of private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers in complex financing transactions, including leveraged buyouts, cross border facilities, asset based facilities and sponsor capital call/subscription and NAV facilities. Her experience in private equity covers multiple sectors including real estate, energy, infrastructure, secondary and financial services funds with aggregate funds raised totaling tens of billions of dollars. Jocelyn's client list spans the globe and includes Warburg Pincus, Vista Equity Partners, Ares, Golub Capital, HGGC, LS Power, TPG, JPM Infrastructure, Summit Partners and GTCR, among others.

Jocelyn is nationally regarded as a leading voice in the fund facility market and represents many of the world’s preeminent private equity, debt and related investment funds in complex and bespoke fund financings. She is routinely called upon to speak on fund finance topics.

Capital call/subscription facilities and hybrid or other Fund NAV leverage loan facilities for various private equity and real estate funds, including Apax Partners, Ares, Beecken Petty O’Keefe, Clearlake Capital Partners, Comvest Partners, Dune Real Estate, Golub Capital, GTCR, HGGC, JPM Infrastructure, Landmark Partners, Linden Capital, LS Power, Peak Rock, Rhone Capital, Sun Capital Partners, TPG and Vista Equity Partners

$1 billion cross border financing for Albea Beauty Products

$1.7 billion term loan financing and €640 million Euro financing in connection with Vista Equity Partners’ purchase of Solera

$455 million first lien term loan, $160 million second lien term loan in connection with GTCR's purchase of EaglePicher

$200 million senior financing in connection with Apax Partners’ purchase of Ideal Protein/Laboratories COP

$520 million first lien facility and $135 million second lien facility for Assured Partners Capital, Inc.

$645 million first lien term loan, $170 million second lien term loan in connection with SK Capital's purchase of certain chemical related assets

$280 million senior credit facility in connection with GTCR’s investment in Six3 Systems, Inc.

$300 million first lien term loan, $75 million ABL and $155 million second lien facility for Emerald Performance Materials, LLC, a Sun Capital portfolio company

$435 million U.S. term loan, €175 million Euro term loan and $100 million revolving cross border, split lien facilities for Coveris Holdings S.A., a Sun Capital Partners portfolio company

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 1995Illinois

Education

  • University of Wisconsin Law SchoolJ.D.cum laude1995

    Order of the Coif

    Law Review

  • University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.A.1991

    Phi Beta Kappa