Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Janette McMahan is a partner in the Structured Finance & Structured Private Credit Practice Group in Kirkland’s New York office. She has significant experience in auto loan, auto lease, marketplace loan and trade receivables transactions. Additionally, Janette has represented clients in single-family rental deals, whole business securitizations, equipment financings, health care receivables transactions, restructurings, investments and acquisitions. Janette has worked with ABS sponsors in drafting comment letters on regulatory reform since 2010, including on Regulation AB II, shelf eligibility, loan level disclosures and risk retention. She has given numerous presentations to ABS sponsors and underwriters on these new rules. Janette was the lead outside counsel on the second effective Regulation AB II shelf. This shelf was declared effective prior to all other shelves other than one SEC pilot program issuer shelf.

Kirkland & Ellis: Chicago Office: Sept. 1998-2000 & 2003-July 2009; London Office: 2001- 2002; New York Office: July 2009-present. Partner: 2004-present.

American Bar Association, Structured Finance Industry Group, New York City Bar Association.

Northwestern University School of Law, J.D.; Dartmouth College, B.A.