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.
