Kirkland Star Lawyer’s Antitrust Warning Sowed Seeds of His Own Exit

For the better part of 15 years at law firm Kirkland & Ellis, David Nemecek made a career out of exploiting loose lending agreements to perfect what would become a...

By Reshmi Basu, Irene Garcia Perez, Eliza Ronalds-Hannon · Bloomberg Markets

For the better part of 15 years at law firm Kirkland & Ellis, David Nemecek made a career out of exploiting loose lending agreements to perfect what would become a well-worn dance in the world of distressed corporate debt: Craft a debt overhaul too good for one set of a company’s creditors to pass up while leaving other creditors with scraps and buying precious time for the company’s private equity owners to avoid losses.