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Austin Witt

+1 212 446 4674 [email protected]

Position

Austin Witt is a debt finance partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Austin represents borrowers, sponsors, direct lenders, distressed investors and creditors in a wide range of restructurings, liability management matters, direct lending transactions, rescue financings, DIP financings, exit financings and other high-yield financing transactions. He is particularly experienced in advising clients in credit opportunities and special situations transactions, and he has worked on some of the largest and most sophisticated distressed transactions in history.

Top Tier Firm Rankings

• Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
• Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
• International trade and national security > CFIUS
• Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
• Finance > Commercial lending
• Intellectual property > Copyright
• Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
• Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
• Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
• Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
• Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
• Environment > Environment: transactional
• Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
• Tax > International tax
• Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
• M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
• Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
• Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
• M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
• Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
• Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
• Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
• Real estate > Real estate
• Energy > Renewable/alternative power
• Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
• Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
• M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
• Finance > Structured finance: securitization
• Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
• Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
• Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
• Tax > US taxes: non-contentious

Firm Rankings

• Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
• Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
• Antitrust > Cartel
• Dispute resolution > E-discovery
• Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
• Antitrust > Merger control
• Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
• Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
• Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
• Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
• Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
• Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
• Government > State attorneys general
• Tax > US taxes: contentious
• Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
• Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation
• Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
• M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
• Environment > Environment: litigation
• Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
• Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
• Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
• Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
• International trade and national security > National Security
• Finance > Project finance
• Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
• International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
• Healthcare > Life sciences
• Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
• Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
• Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
• Government > Government relations