Kelly Mellecker

Kelly Mellecker is a partner in the Structured Finance & Structured Private Credit Practice Group in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Kelly’s practice focuses on advising sponsors, credit funds, initial purchasers, institutional investors, investment banks and borrowers on a broad array of structured finance transactions including securitizations, structured private credit and private placements. Kelly has been instrumental in designing a number of hybrid financing structures melding securitization with traditional leveraged finance and liability management transactions. Kelly is known as a thought leader in the structured finance and infrastructure financing space, having been profiled by Bloomberg, The Banker and other outlets. Before joining Kirkland, Kelly was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, where she led a number of efforts in digital infrastructure securitization and pioneered the non-contracted fiber-to-the-home securitization asset class. Prior to joining Goldman, Kelly was an attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where she represented issuers and sponsors as well as investment banks in connection with some of the highest-profile securitizations in the market, including Wendy’s, Dunkin’ Brands, Dine Brands, Diamond Communications and Coinstar. · Kirkland & Ellis LLP

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Kelly Mellecker is a partner in the Structured Finance & Structured Private Credit Practice Group in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice focuses on advising sponsors, credit funds, initial purchasers, institutional investors, investment banks and borrowers on a broad array of structured finance transactions including securitizations, structured private credit and private placements. She has been instrumental in designing hybrid financing structures melding securitization with traditional leveraged finance and liability management transactions. Before Kirkland, she was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, where she led efforts in digital infrastructure securitization and pioneered the non-contracted fiber-to-the-home securitization asset class. Prior to Goldman, she was an attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.

Practice areas

Structured FinanceSecuritizationStructured Private Credit

Office

United States

Kirkland & Ellis LLP · Kelly Mellecker is a partner in the Structured Finance & Structured Private Credit Practice Group in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Kelly’s practice focuses on advising sponsors, credit funds, initial purchasers, institutional investors, investment banks and borrowers on a broad array of structured finance transactions including securitizations, structured private credit and private placements. Kelly has been instrumental in designing a number of hybrid financing structures melding securitization with traditional leveraged finance and liability management transactions. Kelly is known as a thought leader in the structured finance and infrastructure financing space, having been profiled by Bloomberg, The Banker and other outlets. Before joining Kirkland, Kelly was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, where she led a number of efforts in digital infrastructure securitization and pioneered the non-contracted fiber-to-the-home securitization asset class. Prior to joining Goldman, Kelly was an attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where she represented issuers and sponsors as well as investment banks in connection with some of the highest-profile securitizations in the market, including Wendy’s, Dunkin’ Brands, Dine Brands, Diamond Communications and Coinstar.

United States

Expertise

Structured FinanceSecuritizationStructured Private CreditPrivate PlacementsHybrid Financing StructuresLeveraged FinanceLiability ManagementDigital Infrastructure Securitization

Education

Cornell Law School
University of Iowa