29 Jun 2026
Leonard Klingbaum and Jennifer Harris Join Dechert LLP to Launch Cross-Disciplinary Capital Solutions Team
"Dechert LLP has hired Leonard Klingbaum and Jennifer Harris as partners to lead a cross-disciplinary capital solutions team focused on special situations, distressed finance and credit strategies."
Mr. Klingbaum, based in New York, joins Dechert as a partner. He is named by Forbes among “America’s Top 200 Lawyers” (2024–2025), is ranked by Chambers USA as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business” and is described as “highly regarded” by IFLR1000. He brings an extensive track record advising credit funds, direct lenders and borrowers on event-driven and opportunistic financing, special situations and liability management transactions, workouts, restructurings and insolvency matters across lending, high-yield and mezzanine transactions, spanning the lower middle market to large cap.
Jennifer Harris, based in Los Angeles, joins Dechert as a partner. Her finance practice focuses on credit opportunities, intercreditor relationships and esoteric finance transactions, including distressed and structured financing, liability management, workouts and special situations lending such as debtor-in-possession and exit financings, FILOs, second-lien and mezzanine financings across a wide array of industries. She has been recognized in The Legal 500.
Together, they will advise asset managers, companies and sponsors across the spectrum of capital deployment—from financing strategy, direct lending and liability management to distressed M&A and special situations transactions at every level of the capital stack. Their arrivals strengthen Dechert’s bi-coastal presence, with Mr. Klingbaum in New York and Ms. Harris in Los Angeles.