Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Restructuring (including Bankruptcy): Corporate

Chris Greco is a partner in the Restructuring Practice Group and is global co-chair of Kirkland’s Firmwide Recruiting Committee. He represents companies, sponsors and investors in complex liability management, financings, recapitalizations, restructurings and other special situation transactions.

For nearly two decades, Chris has advised clients on some of the largest stressed and distressed situations in the energy, retail, healthcare, entertainment, media, education, technology, transportation, and global engineering and construction industries.

In recent years, Chris has advised clients in some of the most complex and novel liability management exercises (LME) ever completed, including LMEs for Travelport, MultiPlan, Packer’s Sanitation, among many others. Chris has led dozens of successful out-of-court restructurings, avoiding the need for a formal court proceeding where possible, including matters such as Wheels Up, Casper Sleep, Wahoo Fitness, Dunn Paper, Service King, Team INC and PSS Industrial, as well as a significant number of other confidential engagements.

Co-Chair, Kirkland & Ellis Firmwide Recruiting Committee

Member, Wake Forest University School of Law Board of Visitors, 2019-Present

Member, Law360 2021 Bankruptcy Editorial Advisory Board

Member, American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI)

Wake Forest University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2007; Villanova University, B.S., cum laude, 2004.