James Kelly is a corporate associate in the Dallas office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice focuses on private equity, financing transactions and debt restructurings. James has experience representing private equity sponsors, financial institutions and public and private borrowers and issuers in a wide range of corporate transactions in the United States and abroad, including acquisition financing, reserve and asset-based lending, leveraged lending, mezzanine financing, subordinated debt financing and fund financing transactions. James additionally has experience in debtor-in-possession and exit financing and workouts and restructurings on behalf of both issuers and financial institutions.