Jon Kibbe

He regularly advises clients participating in the market for troubled and non-performing loans and financial claims, providing transactional, compliance and regulatory guidance to clients that originate, restructure and trade commercial and industrial bank loans, distressed bonds, portfolios of real estate loans, claims arising from terminated derivative transactions, and other related obligations. He has helped clients create trading solutions and new markets for illiquid credit assets, establish trading desks to support those markets, implement strategic trading programs, and develop firm-wide compliance and best-practice initiatives.

Jon counsels clients engaged in event-driven acquisitions, debt restructurings, and innovative financing transactions. He has helped develop and engineer new financial instruments, including the loan credit default swap, and new applications of securitization structures, including vehicles formed to purchase and restructure distressed bank loans. 

He is a frequent speaker on legal, regulatory, and compliance issues arising in the fixed income markets. Jon regularly writes on topics of interest to active participants in the evolving markets for bank loans, claims, and related credit derivatives products.

Prior to joining the firm, he was a founding partner of Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP, a boutique law firm that focused on financial markets.