Michael L. Urschel, P.C.

Michael is savvy, business-minded, commercial and is the epitome of a group leader. - Chambers USA, 2025

Michael Urschel, a partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, is tasked with building and growing our global Structured Finance & Structured Private Credit practice. Michael focuses on securitization, structured private credit and private placements, both on a stand-alone basis and market-leading hybrid finance transactions with traditional lending and equity-based products. Our team focuses on non-traditional asset financing and acquisition financing of complex assets, advising sponsors, borrowers, funds, investment banks and other institutions on a variety of financing opportunities, regulatory matters and portfolio acquisitions and financings across the capital structure.

Michael is active in a wide range of capital markets, structured lending and acquisition financing transactions. He has structured and led dozens of financings of franchised concepts, digital infrastructure assets, real estate and leasing assets, energy assets, transportation assets, media royalties, outdoor advertising receivables and various specialty lending platforms. Over the prior 15 years, Michael has designed many of the prevailing financing structures in the market for the acquisition and financing of esoteric assets—including pioneering using such transactions for ‘certain funds’ acquisition transactions.