Kelly Mellecker

Kelly Mellecker is a finance professional with extensive experience in structured finance and securitization. She recently transitioned from her role as Managing Director at Goldman Sachs to join Kirkland & Ellis LLP as a partner in their Debt Finance Group.13

Career Highlights

Goldman Sachs: Kelly served as a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs from November 2023 to September 2024.2 During her time there, she:

• Led telecom and digital infrastructure structured finance initiatives
• Pioneered the non-contracted fiber-to-the-home securitization asset class
• Structured deals for first-time issuers such as Metronet, Frontier, and Ziply1

Previous Experience: Before her role at Goldman Sachs, Kelly worked as:

• An attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
• Vice President at Goldman Sachs
• Director at RBC Capital Markets

Expertise and Accomplishments

Kelly is recognized for her expertise in:

• Complex securitization transactions
• Structured finance and infrastructure financing
• Advising sponsors, credit funds, initial purchasers, and institutional investors

She has also served as an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, teaching a deals seminar on secured transactions.1

New Role at Kirkland & Ellis

In September 2024, Kelly joined Kirkland & Ellis as a partner in the Debt Finance Group. Her practice will focus on:

• Advising on structured finance transactions
• Securitizations
• Structured private credit
• Private placements14

Kelly's move to Kirkland & Ellis is part of the firm's expansion of its Structured Finance & Structured Private Credit Practice, which has more than doubled in size recently.1