03 Aug 2026
Jackson Walker Adds Daniel J. Kirksey as Partner in Finance Practice
"Daniel J. Kirksey joins Jackson Walker as a partner in the Finance practice in Houston, focusing on borrower-side leveraged finance and a broad range of debt financing transactions."
Kirksey represents private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, and other corporate borrowers in a wide range of debt financing transactions. He focuses on borrower-side and leveraged finance matters across the full investment lifecycle, including platform and add-on acquisitions, repricings and related amendments, refinancings, recapitalizations, restructurings, exit transactions and other strategic financing matters. His experience encompasses underwritten and best-efforts acquisition financings, cash flow and asset-based facilities, reserve-based loans, sustainability-linked credit facilities, equipment financings, letter-of-credit facilities, debtor-in-possession financings and exit financings.
Kirksey joins Jackson Walker at the partner level. He received his B.S., summa cum laude, from Kansas State University and his J.D., cum laude, from Washburn University School of Law.