Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Debt Finance

H.T. Flanagan is a debt finance partner in the Dallas and New York offices of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He advises private credit funds, alternative lenders and other investors in traditional private credit financings and bespoke capital solutions. He counsels such credit-oriented investors on direct originations, secondary market opportunities, complex intercreditor issues and novel structured capital investments. In addition to his private credit-focused lender-side practice, H.T. also advises private equity firms and their portfolio companies on a range of borrower-side leveraged finance transactions. He has extensive experience representing both lender and borrower private capital clients on acquisition financings, liability management transactions, debtor-in-possession financings, hybrid capital instruments and special situations investments.

H.T. has been named as one of the future leaders in leveraged finance as part of the “500 X – The Next Generation” by Lawdragon. Prior to entering law school, H.T. was a pitcher for the Washington University baseball team, where he was a three-time academic all-conference selection.