David J. Kennedy
Lawyers
Advises banks, direct lenders and corporate borrowers on financing transactions, including leveraged financings, asset-based facilities and debt restructurings.
David has extensive experience advising financial institutions, arrangers and direct lenders on a wide variety of financing transactions, including complex cross-border leverage buyouts, private debt, asset-based lending and securitization, restructuring transactions, and NAV and back-leverage facilities. David also represents corporate clients on a full range of finance-related matters, including debt restructuring transactions.
Experience highlights
Recent Representations
- Sabre private exchange
- Digicel completes $3.8 billion cross-border consensual restructuring
- Over $20 billion of structured credit financings in 2023
- Finastra Group $5.32 billion refinancing
- Digicel enters into RSAs to restructure more than $4.4 billion of funded debt
- Incora restructuring and $300 million DIP financing
- Prospect Medical Holdings $375 million refinancing
- Transocean amendment and extension of revolving credit facility
Education
LL.B., Flinders University
- with honours
Professional history
- Counsel, 2023-present
- Davis Polk, 2017-2020 and 2022-present
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York