H.T. Flanagan Named As Debt Finance Partner at Kirkland & Ellis

Kirkland & Ellis announced that H.T. Flanagan will join the firm as a partner in the Debt Finance Group. Flanagan advises private credit funds, alternative lenders, and other investors on traditional private credit financings and bespoke capital solutions. He also counsels such credit-oriented investors on direct originations, secondary market opportunities, complex inter-creditor issues, and novel structured capital investments.

Flanagan also advises private equity firms and their portfolio companies on various borrower-side leveraged finance transactions. And he has extensive experience representing private capital clients in connection with acquisition financings, liability management transactions, debtor-in-possession financings, hybrid capital instruments and special situations investments.

Flanagan joins Kirkland from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he was a partner. He will work primarily in Kirkland’s Dallas office while spending significant time in the firm’s New York office. And Flanagan earned his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis and his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

With over 300 dedicated lawyers, Kirkland’s debt finance practice is the largest in the world and serves more than 500 private equity clients. Within this practice, the firm’s multidisciplinary liability management team develops innovative, out-of-court alternatives to formal restructurings and has designed and led more than half of the industry’s most high-profile liability management exercises.

KEY QUOTES:

“H.T.’s deep private credit experience will bolster our leading liability management and opportunistic credit practices. We’re excited to welcome him to the firm.”

– Jon A. Ballis, Chairman of Kirkland’s Executive Committee

“We are thrilled to be able to tap into H.T.’s private credit and liability management experience on behalf of Kirkland’s clients. H.T. will strengthen our ability to handle complex financing issues for the clients who turn to us for guidance, especially within the growing private credit sector.”

– Dave Nemecek, a senior debt finance partner

“Having worked across from the Firm many times, I’ve seen first-hand the depth of talent, collaboration and experience that Kirkland brings to every matter. I am beyond excited to join this world-class debt finance team and to add my diverse private capital experience advising private credit funds and opportunistic asset managers to Kirkland’s market-leading credit opportunities and liability management practices.”

– H.T. Flanagan