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International capital markets.
Position
William R Burke is a partner in Kirkland & Ellis International LLP’s London office and practices in Kirkland’s Capital Markets Group. Mr Burke has extensive experience in US and international finance and capital markets transactions. He has represented issuers and sponsors both in the US and abroad with respect to high-yield offerings, initial public offerings, registered equity, debt and convertible security offerings, restructurings, debt tender/consent solicitations, private placements and preferred securities offerings. Mr Burke also represents private equity sponsors and other clients in acquisitions, dispositions, mergers and material commercial agreements.
Career
Kirkland & Ellis LLP, associate 2004-08; partner 2008-11; Kirkland & Ellis International LLP partner 2011-date.
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New York; Illinois.
Education
Columbia Law School (JD 2002); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BA History 1995).
London: Finance
High yield
Within: Leading individuals
William Burke - Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
Within: High yield
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP delivers 'an exceptional level of service; it has unparalleled bench strength and market know-how on the sponsor side'. The firm has one of the largest high yield practices in Europe, which focuses purely on US high yield bonds and liability management transactions. It completed 19 high yield offerings in 2017 as primary issuer counsel, and acts for a broad range of financial sponsors and their issuer portfolio companies, as evidenced by its work for Bain Capital, Cinven and Nidda BondCo in the offering of €735m in senior secured notes and €340m in senior notes to refinance a bridge facility used in the takeover offer for STADA Arzneimittel. Matthew Merkle handled that deal. Head of the London capital markets William Burke is 'uniquely talented and has no other peer in Europe'. His highlights included acting for Ardian, Goldentree and portfolio company Maxeda DIY in a €475m notes offering. 'Outstanding lawyer' Cedric Van den Borren 'always finds solutions to complex issues'. He assisted Partners Group AG and PSP Investments with high yield issuance as part of a €1.15bn financing for the acquisition of Cerba HealthCare. Rising star Tim Volkheimer and the 'client-focused and solution-oriented' Gilles Teerlinck are also recommended.