Jennifer McWhaw

Since joining Kirkland, Jennifer's representative experience has included:

• Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. (NASDAQ: RRGB) in connection with an incremental amendment to its existing credit agreement with Fortress Credit Corp. as agent
• Partners Group portfolio company Eyecare Partners, LLC, a leading national provider of clinically integrated eye care, in a liability management transaction that significantly enhanced the company’s liquidity, deleveraged its balance sheet, reduced annual debt interest expense and extended debt maturities. The transaction included a $275 million new-money investment into a super senior debt tranche and an uptier exchange of more than 98% of existing first lien term loans, 100% of existing revolving commitments and more than 91% of existing second lien term loans that captured significant debt discount
• ABRY portfolio company Alvaria, a multinational software company selling call center and customer experience software technology, in a liability management transaction involving a dropdown of intellectual property into a non-guarantor restricted subsidiary and an exchange of existing first lien and second lien debt into newly issued secured debt of the non-guarantor restricted subsidiary, further backed by a double dip secured intercompany loan
• QualTek Services Inc., a provider of infrastructure services and renewable energy project solutions to the North American telecommunications and power industries, in connection with its Chapter 11 debtor-in-possession financing and first lien term loan, second lien term loan, third lien term loan and ABL exit credit facilities
• David’s Bridal, the nation’s largest provider of wedding gowns and other special occasion apparel, in its Chapter 11 cases with approximately $260 million of funded debt
• CURO Group Holdings Corp. (NYSE: CURO), in a liability management transaction that effectuated an uptier exchange of 68.2% or $682.3 million of its 7.5% second-lien notes into new 7.5% 1.5-lien notes and a contemporaneous $150 million new money first-lien term loan financing provided by noteholders that participated in the exchange
• Nielsen & Bainbridge, LLC (d/b/a NBG Home), supplier of home décor and home good, in its prearranged Chapter 11 restructuring
• BasePoint Capital, a New York-based diversified specialty finance group, as DIP financing providers to NextPoint Financial Inc., the ultimate parent company of Liberty Tax and Community Tax

Prior to joining Kirkland, Jennifer’s representative experience included:

• An ad hoc group of term loan lenders in connection with a $806 million exit financing in the prearranged chapter 11 case of Covia Holdings Corporation, a leading provider of diversified mineral-based and material solutions for the global energy and industrial markets
• Canopy Growth Corporation, a publicly traded leading cannabis products company, in its $750 million senior secured term loan, provided by funds advised by King Street Capital Management, L.P., which also provides for up to an additional $500 million of incremental senior secured debt
• Red Robin, a national restaurant chain in the casual dining space, in connection with a $225 million first lien term loan borrowed from a leading direct lender
• Goodlife Fitness Centres, the leading fitness club operator in Canada, in connection with a refinancing of all of its existing debt facilities with a senior secured term loan, provided by funds advised by King Street and Centerbridge
• Glass Mountain, the owner of a 450-mile pipeline providing crude oil transportation and storage services, in a comprehensive restructuring with its equity sponsor and secured lenders that resulted in a reduction of over $230 million in debt
• Certain investors of Lime, a transportation company that runs electric scooters, bikes and mopeds in various cities around the world, in connection with the company's $418 million convertible notes offering