Jacob Durkin

Based in the Firm’s London office, Jacob Durkin is a Partner in the Banking and Credit Practice and a member of the Firm’s Alternative Capital and Private Credit group. He focuses his practice on complex domestic and cross-border private credit, syndicated loan, structured finance, capital solution and special situations transactions, including leveraged, acquisition, fund-level and asset-backed financing. He advises direct lenders, private credit funds, investment banks, sponsors and other financial institutions across a broad range of sectors, products and capital structures, including unitranche and syndicated loan, second lien, holdco PIK and other junior debt instruments, public-to-private, ARR and preferred equity, mezzanine, convertible, warrants and other hybrid instruments.

Jacob’s recent work highlights include representing:

• CVC Credit, Crescent Capital and Bridgepoint Credit on the financing for H.I.G. Capital’s strategic investment in Avanta Salud and subsequent acquisition of Vitaly Group by Avanta Salud
• Sound Point on its bridge financing for the public-to-private acquisition of International Personal Finance by BasePoint
• Lenders on the unitranche financing for Blacksheep’s acquisition of Distilled Media
• Sereni, a portfolio company backed by Netley Capital, on the refinancing of its existing debt
• Cobepa on a unitranche financing for the acquisition of Itineris
• Lenders on the unitranche financing for IK Partners’ acquisitions of Dains Accountants and Sansidor
• KKR Credit funds on multiple unitranche, junior capital and other direct lending transactions for various financial sponsor
• ICG on a debt and equity co-investment in a sponsor-owned medical devices business
• Lenders on a financing in connection with the investment by IK Partners in Sansidor
• Certain funds advised by KKR Credit as second lien lenders to the Wittur group in relation to its financial restructuring
• Credit fund investors including Apollo, Park Square Capital and KKR Credit on private placed notes investments to a Cinven portfolio company
• Both sponsors and private investment funds on multiple fund-level and asset backed financings
• JPMorgan on the financing for EIG’s c.$4.8 billion acquisition of a 25% stake in Repsol’s upstream oil and gas assets and subsequent HYB refinancing
• Joint lead arrangers and joint book-running managers in LATAM Airlines Group’s $2.75 billion debtor-in-possession to exit financing

In 2021, Jacob spent a year on secondment with the Credit and Markets team in KKR’s London office.

Jacob received his LL.B from the College of Law – London, and his B.A. Hons. from the University of Leeds. He is admitted to practice in England and Wales.