{"id":149,"date":"2025-05-01T10:42:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.structuredcreditinvestor.com\/esoteric-abs-2025\/?post_type=post_speaker&#038;p=149"},"modified":"2025-05-01T10:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:42:43","slug":"kelly-mellecker","status":"publish","type":"post_speaker","link":"http:\/\/www.structuredcreditinvestor.com\/esoteric-abs-2025\/?post_speaker=kelly-mellecker","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Mellecker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Partner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelly Mellecker is a partner in the Structured Finance &amp; Structured Private Credit Practice Group in the New York office of Kirkland &amp; Ellis LLP. Kelly\u2019s practice focuses on advising sponsors, credit funds, initial purchasers, institutional investors, investment banks and borrowers on a broad array of structured finance transactions including securitizations, structured private credit and private placements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelly has been instrumental in designing a number of hybrid financing structures melding securitization with traditional leveraged finance and liability management transactions. Kelly is known as a thought leader in the structured finance and infrastructure financing space, having been profiled by&nbsp;<em>Bloomberg<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Banker<\/em>&nbsp;and other outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before joining Kirkland, Kelly was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, where she led a number of efforts in digital infrastructure securitization and pioneered the non-contracted fiber-to-the-home securitization asset class. Prior to joining Goldman, Kelly was an attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &amp; Garrison LLP, where she represented issuers and sponsors as well as investment banks in connection with some of the highest-profile securitizations in the market, including Wendy\u2019s, Dunkin\u2019 Brands, Dine Brands, Diamond Communications and Coinstar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partner Kelly Mellecker is a partner in the Structured Finance &amp; Structured Private Credit Practice Group in the New York office of Kirkland &amp; Ellis LLP. Kelly\u2019s practice focuses on advising sponsors, credit funds, initial purchasers, institutional investors, investment banks and borrowers on a broad array of structured finance transactions including securitizations, structured private credit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-149","post_speaker","type-post_speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","wpl_speakers_category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.structuredcreditinvestor.com\/esoteric-abs-2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/post_speaker\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.structuredcreditinvestor.com\/esoteric-abs-2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/post_speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.structuredcreditinvestor.com\/esoteric-abs-2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post_speaker"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.structuredcreditinvestor.com\/esoteric-abs-2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.structuredcreditinvestor.com\/esoteric-abs-2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.structuredcreditinvestor.com\/esoteric-abs-2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}