Overview

[H.T. is] thoughtful, thorough, commercial … and [a] pleasure to work with. - The Legal 500 United States

H.T. Flanagan is a debt finance partner in the Dallas and New York offices of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He advises private credit funds, alternative lenders and other investors in traditional private credit financings and bespoke capital solutions. He counsels such credit-oriented investors on direct originations, secondary market opportunities, complex intercreditor issues and novel structured capital investments. In addition to his private credit-focused lender-side practice, H.T. also advises private equity firms and their portfolio companies on a range of borrower-side leveraged finance transactions. He has extensive experience representing both lender and borrower private capital clients on acquisition financings, liability management transactions, debtor-in-possession financings, hybrid capital instruments and special situations investments.

H.T. has been named as one of the future leaders in leveraged finance as part of the “500 X – The Next Generation” by Lawdragon and is recommended for lending transactions by The Legal 500 United States. Prior to entering law school, H.T. was a pitcher for the Washington University baseball team, where he was a three-time academic all-conference selection.

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Thought Leadership

Speaking Engagements

Speaker, “The ABCs of private credit LMEs,” Cloud 9fin, 2024

Publications

Co-author, “Capital Solutions Financings: Yield Driving Structure,” Global Restructuring Review, 2023

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • Texas
  • New York

Education

  • University of Pennsylvania Carey Law SchoolJ.D.2015
  • Washington University in St. LouisB.A., Political Sciencewith Honors2011