Daniel Borg

Partner Debt Finance
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

Overview

Dan is a fantastic lawyer, we trust him with our bigger transactions - I can't say enough good things.” - Chambers UK, 2025

Dan Borg is a leading debt finance partner who has close to twenty years’ experience advising top-tier financial sponsors, their portfolio companies and other borrowers in a wide range of complex cross-border financing transactions. Dan’s areas of focus include leveraged acquisitions and recapitalizations, public and private holdco financings, as well as liability management transactions and restructurings. Dan advises numerous top-tier financial sponsors and has structured, negotiated and implemented market leading financing mandates for Kirkland’s clients in matters across Europe, the U.S. and Asia.

Dan has been recognised:

  • by Chambers UK (2022, 2023, 2025) where Dan is described by clients as “truly outstanding” and “incredibly hard-working, super knowledgeable, and his technical knowledge of transactions is quite amazing”
  • as a “Leading Partner” and praised as being a “key member of the team” in Legal 500 UK (2023–2025)
  • as a “Notable Practitioner” in IFLR1000 (2022–2025) for Banking
  • as a “Next Generation Partner” in The Legal 500 UK (2022)
  • in The Lawyer “Hot 100” 2020, which celebrates the United Kingdom’s top lawyers acting on the most significant matters with creative flair
  • by Legal Week, who named Dan to its 2018 list of “Rising Stars: The Next Generation of City Private Equity Talent”

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2006, Admitted to practice as a Solicitor of England and Wales

Education

  • College of Law, LondonLegal Practice Coursewith Distinction2004
  • College of Law, LondonPost-Graduate Diploma in LawCommendation2003
  • University College LondonB.Sc.2002