Kaitlin Schockis a debt finance partner in the Houston office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice focuses on the representation of private equity funds, private credit funds, financial institutions and commercial borrowers in financial transactions of all types (both domestic and cross-border), including leveraged and investment-grade lending, acquisition financings, asset-based financings and general working capital facilities.
Experience
Representative Matters
Since joining Kirkland, Kaitlin has been involved in the following matters:
Represented an investor consortium comprised of AI Infrastructure Partnership, MGX and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners in its $40 billion acquisition of Aligned Data Centers, a provider of data center solutions, from Macquarie Asset Management
Represented Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBD) in its $17 billion secured bridge facility in connection with its tender offer and consent solicitation supporting a new corporate structure that will comprise two divisions: Global Linear Networks and Streaming & Studios
EnCap portfolio company Linea Energy, a renewable energy developer and independent power producer, in connection with a $145 million credit facility
Prior to joining Kirkland, Kaitlin was involved in the following matters:
Represented multiple privately held refining companies in complex refinancing transactions, including secured inventory monetization and intermediation facilities and revolving and term credit facilities
Represented the lender group in the financing of the acquisition of a conventional oil refinery in Mobile, Alabama and the funding for its conversion to renewable diesel
Represented a private upstream oil and gas company in the largest to date by value securitization of oil and gas proved developed producing assets through the issuance of term asset-backed notes in a private placement transaction with a diverse syndicate of institutional investors
Represented a private upstream oil and gas company in a US$1.5 billion reserve-based senior secured revolving credit facility with a $725 million initial borrowing
Represented the administrative agent in its US$450 million senior unsecured 364-day term loan credit facility and US$550 million unsecured term loan facility for a public upstream oil and gas company
Represented the administrative agent in its US$1.5 billion senior unsecured revolving credit facility, with a discretionary swingline sub-facility and a letter of credit sub-facility for a public upstream oil and gas company
Represented the administrative agent, in its US$2.5 billion committed exit financing consisting of a US$1.75 billion reserve-based senior secured revolving credit facility and a US$750 million first lien last out term loan, for an upstream oil and gas company
