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Daniel J. Kirksey

Daniel J. Kirksey

Partner, Houston
dkirksey@jw.com
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Practice Areas

  • Finance

Experience

  • Commercial Finance
  • Debtor Representation
  • Energy Finance
  • Mergers, Acquisitions, & Divestitures
  • Private Equity
  • Public Companies & Securities

Biography

Daniel Kirksey is a debt finance partner in Jackson Walker’s Houston office whose practice focuses on representing private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in leveraged finance transactions.Ā  He advises clients across the full investment lifecycle—including platform acquisitions, add-on acquisitions, repricing and related amendments, refinancings, recapitalizations, restructurings, and exit transactions.

Daniel’s experience includes underwritten and best-efforts acquisition financings, cash flow and asset-based facilities, reserve-based loans, sustainability-linked credit facilities, equipment financings, letter-of-credit facilities, debtor-in-possession financings, and exit financings.Ā  He works with sponsors and borrowers to structure and negotiate financing solutions that support growth, liquidity, and value creation.

Education

B.S., summa cum laude, Kansas State University

J.D.,Ā cum laude, Washburn University School of Law

  • Managing Editor, Washburn Law JournalĀ 

Bar Admissions

Texas

Practice Areas

  • Finance

Experience

  • Commercial Finance
  • Debtor Representation
  • Energy Finance
  • Mergers, Acquisitions, & Divestitures
  • Private Equity
  • Public Companies & Securities

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