Overview

Austin Witt is a debt finance partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Austin represents borrowers, sponsors, direct lenders, distressed investors and creditors in a wide range of liability management matters, restructurings, direct lending transactions, rescue financings, DIP financings, exit financings and other leveraged financing transactions. He is particularly experienced in advising clients in credit opportunities and special situations transactions. Austin has led the design on some of the most complex and innovative liability management exercises completed in recent years including Alvaria, Eyecare Partners and The Lycra Company, among many others.

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • New York

Education

  • University of Chicago Law SchoolJ.D.with Honors2007

    Order of the Coif

    Member, The University of Chicago Law Review

  • Rice UniversityB.A.cum laude2002