Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Debt Finance

Dave Nemecek is a nationally recognized corporate partner in the Dallas and New York offices. Dave's practice focuses on debt finance transactions with an emphasis on representing private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, hedge funds, asset managers and alternative capital sources in complex financing transactions, including leveraged buyouts, liability management exercises, recapitalizations, restructurings and other special situation transactions.

Dave Nemecek is one of the country’s leading liability management attorneys. Dave has led the design of some of the most complex and novel liability management exercises completed in recent years.

In 2023, Dave was recognized by the Los Angeles Business Journal as one of Los Angeles’ Top 100 Lawyers. Dave is rated as a “Band 1” Banking and Finance attorney by Chambers USA, and has been recognized by Chambers USA since 2014.

Dave was among 10 lawyers recognized as “The Most Innovative Individual Practitioner” in the Financial Times’ 2020 North America Innovative Lawyers Report, for his creative approach to debt-financing transactions, devising deal structures other lawyers said could not be accomplished, including his work advising Macy’s on a groundbreaking $4.5 billion recapitalization during the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Law Journal named Dave to its 2019 list of “Finance, Banking & Capital Markets Trailblazers,” for his work on behalf of such clients as Neiman Marcus and PetSmart. In 2023, the Los Angeles Business Journal named Dave to its list of the "Top 100 Lawyers," and in 2017, he was named one of the “Top 40 Under 40” lawyers for the State of California by the Daily Journal.

Dave has negotiated and closed transactions in a diverse group of industries, including retail, restaurant, apparel, energy, healthcare, media, software, cosmetics, specialty finance and biotechnology.