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Leonard Klingbaum serves as head of the firm’s Capital Solutions group, leading a cross‑disciplinary platform that draws upon a single multidisciplinary team of lawyers aligned to serve clients throughout an investment’s lifecycle.

Mr. Klingbaum provides strategic and results‑oriented advice to clients in complex private credit and special situations finance, event‑driven and opportunistic transactions, and liability management exercises. He advises credit funds and other asset managers, direct lenders, alternative capital sources, borrowers (including private and public companies), and sponsors across the full spectrum of financing and capital structure solutions.

His work spans the capital stack and ranges from lower middle‑market transactions to large‑cap financings.

A trusted adviser in high‑stakes and time‑sensitive situations, Mr. Klingbaum counsels clients on both out‑of‑court and in‑court financing matters. His experience frequently involves new‑money investments, debt equitizations, and creative structuring solutions designed to address challenged or shifting capital structures and evolving market conditions.

Mr. Klingbaum’s practice is distinguished by its cross‑disciplinary approach, enabling him to guide clients seamlessly from financing strategy and execution through distressed M&A and restructuring outcomes. His breadth of experience across market cycles allows him to deliver commercially grounded, legally precise advice in some of the most complex transactions in the market. He is widely recognized for his leadership in credit opportunities and special situations finance and for his ability to develop practical solutions to sophisticated investment challenges.

Education
University of Toronto, B.A.
Pace University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, Executive Editor, Pace Law Review

Admission
New York