Kirkland Welcomes Debt Finance Partner Adam Griffin
Kirkland & Ellis announced today that debt finance attorney Adam Griffin has joined the Firm as a partner.
“Adam is a leading debt finance lawyer with extensive experience in energy and infrastructure matters,” said Jon A. Ballis, Chairman of Kirkland’s Executive Committee. “He will add additional depth to our strong infrastructure finance team, and we’re thrilled to welcome him to Kirkland.”
Mr. Griffin’s practice focuses on complex U.S. domestic and international financing transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors. He has extensive experience advising on renewable and conventional energy project financings, structured equity and tax equity investments, and innovative commodities transactions. He regularly represents sponsors, lenders, financial institutions and private equity investors in debt and equity financings, workouts and restructurings across the energy and infrastructure landscape.
Mr. Griffin is ranked by Chambers USA and Chambers Global for Nationwide Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy (2025) and recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. for Project Finance: Energy and Power and multiple energy transactions categories. Mr. Griffin joins from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, where he was a partner.
“I’m excited to join this accomplished team and help Kirkland further grow its exceptional energy and infrastructure offerings,” said Mr. Griffin. “Kirkland’s emphasis on collaboration, combined with its world-class platform and extensive resources, sets it apart. I look forward to working with my new colleagues – many of whom I already know well – to deliver incredible solutions for our clients.”
The approximately 500 lawyers in Kirkland’s energy and infrastructure group have a strong presence in Texas, London, New York, Riyadh, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., and handle an array of sophisticated energy and infrastructure transactions and advisory engagements. These attorneys span all practice groups, including corporate M&A, private equity, capital markets, fund formation, debt and project finance, asset transactions, restructuring, litigation, tax, environmental, real estate and energy regulatory. Kirkland regularly represents public and private companies, financial institutions and sophisticated private equity firms and hedge funds in cutting edge transactions in the upstream, midstream, downstream, water, power (conventional and renewable), energy transition, infrastructure and services sectors, and the attorneys have decades of experience advising clients in these sectors throughout the lifecycle of the underlying assets.