Kramer Levin Formalizes Private Credit Practice, Serving Clients Seeking Creative Financing Strategies and Access to New Asset Classes
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today Kramer Levin announced that it formalized a multidisciplinary private credit practice, leveraging the firm’s depth of industry knowledge and extensive experience across the borrowing and lending community to continue providing clients with comprehensive support for an asset class that plays an indispensable role in today’s dynamic finance market.
Kramer Levin’s Private Credit practice brings together its existing practices and lawyers that focus on working with nonbank borrowers and lenders, including credit fund sponsors, hedge and private equity funds, investors, and loan originators of all varieties.
“This client-focused collaboration brings together long-standing strengths of the firm to ensure that we can be integrally involved in supporting our clients to maximize their opportunities in this complex and evolving market,” said Kramer Levin Co-Managing Partner Howard T. Spilko.
“Our approach blends the agility of boutique firms with the depth of experience found in larger institutions, ensuring our clients receive tailored guidance that meets their unique needs and leverages our collective knowledge,” added Kramer Levin Co-Managing Partner Paul H. Schoeman.
Kramer Levin’s Private Credit practice is a multidisciplinary team whose principal contacts include Kenneth Chin (Banking and Finance), Xander Woolverton (Bankruptcy), Fabien Carruzzo (Derivatives and Structured Products), Daniel Eggermann and Rachael Ringer (Distressed Investing), Richard Farley (Leveraged Finance), Ariel Lavinbuk (Litigation), Yasho Lahiri (Private Funds), David Berg (Securitization and Structured Finance), Scott Welkis (Special Situations), and Pamela Capps (Tax). The practice will be co-led by Mr. Berg, chair, Private Credit, and Mr. Lahiri, chair, Private Funds.
The multidisciplinary group provides innovative and highly tailored solutions ideally suited to the evolving complex private credit environment and follows the recent growth of the Special Situations Group earlier this year.
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Jennifer Manton
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