Overview

Joel Weinberger is a corporate partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Joel counsels clients in a variety of asset securitization, structured finance, secured lending and receivables sale transactions. He represents private equity firms and/or their portfolio companies in structured financings involving bankruptcy remote special purpose entities and complex true sale and substantive consolidation analyses.

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Thought Leadership

Speaking Engagements

Panelist, “Medicare Advantage: M&A and Financing,” ALMIA Medicare Conference, May 2025

Panelist, “Transportation ABS: Aircraft, Leasing, Shipping & Trucks,” SCI Esoteric ABS Seminar, May 2025

Panelist, “Tickets Please: Market Outlook for Equipment Loans and Leases,” ABS East, October 2023

Recognition

Recognized by IFLR 1000 as a Rising Star for Capital Markets: Structured Finance and Securitisation, 2023

Recognized for Structured Finance: Securitization by The Legal 500 U.S., 2021, 2023–2025

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2015Illinois

Education

  • Indiana University Maurer School of LawJ.D.magna cum laude2015

    Order of the Coif

    Executive Articles Editor, Indiana Law Journal

  • Roosevelt UniversityB.M., Violin Performancewith Honors2012