Special Situations

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Overview

Kirkland’s Special Situations Group partners with investors and companies on tailored, innovative capital and liquidity solutions.

Special Situations transactions generally involve the combination of debt-like downside protection with the potential for equity-like upside participation in stressed, distressed and event-driven situations, where underlying assets are discounted due to illiquidity, market disruption, business cyclicality or an unsustainable capital structure.

By bringing together Kirkland’s market-leading debt finance, private equity and M&A, restructuring, capital markets, and investment funds practices, our Special Situations Group brings creative solutions to clients considering these complex global situations.

Capabilities

  • Event-driven and opportunistic transactions
  • Highly structured debt, equity and convertible investments and offerings
  • Debt solutions backed by non-traditional security packages
  • Innovative solutions to accessing highly regulated markets
  • Rescue, debtor-in-possession, acquisition, exit and other complex financings
  • Distress-to-control and stressed transactions, including in-and out-of-court asset and equity purchases
  • Non-performing loan-related transactions, including structuring and setup of platforms, and acquisition and financing of portfolios
  • Strategies for exiting challenging/legacy portfolio investments
  • Custom distressed, rescue, DIP and exit financing structures, including with existing and new lenders and capital sources
  • Construct custom debt solutions, including debt backed by alternative security packages, drop-down exchanges and new issuances backed by assets transferred outside existing guarantor/collateral package
  • Improve position in capital structure utilizing up-tier debt roll-ups & exchange
  • In and out of court asset and equity purchases, including Article 9 and 363 sales