Private Credit
Overview
We routinely advise private credit funds, alternative capital providers and special situations investors as lenders in a wide range of credit transactions, including traditional acquisition financings, debt solutions for non-sponsored and public companies, and the full spectrum of hybrid capital products, as well as helping lenders navigate complex intercreditor dynamics.
Unlike many of our competitors, Kirkland’s lender-side practice is primarily focused on private capital in non-designated transactions. Reflective of our Firm’s history, we have a deep understanding of how asset managers operate and what it means to hold a credit investment to maturity. Our integrated platform leverages our first-in-class debt finance, restructuring, credit investment funds and corporate teams, so we move quickly, structure creatively and stay with clients across the full life cycle of a credit investment.
As a leading private equity and liability management firm, we are able to provide our lender-side clients with unique insights into a borrower’s perspective at every stage of a transaction, including advising on liability management risks and opportunities to put new capital to work in liability management transactions.
For more information, contact partners H.T. Flanagan or Jason Kanner.
Experience
Direct Lending
Capital Solutions
2025 Top 6 Most Active Lender-Side Private Credit Law Firm
9fin
Shortlisted as Law Firm of the Year – Transactions, 2025
Private Debt Investor
#1 Most Active Debt Finance, Credit Fund Formation and Restructuring Practice
Chambers Global & Global Restructuring Review