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Kristopher D. Phipps

Associate
Kristopher D. Phipps Associate

Kristopher Phipps focuses his practice on a broad range of corporate finance transactions, representing financial sponsors, corporate borrowers, investment banks, institutional investors and other parties in secured lending and financing matters.

Kris has experience with syndicated and bilateral credit facilities, including leveraged acquisitions, refinancings, fund finance, cross-border transactions and liability management exercises. 

Prior to joining Morrison Cohen, he was a finance associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. He was previously a finance associate at Chapman and Cutler LLP.

Experience

Prior to joining Morrison Cohen:

  • Represented financial sponsor and financial advising company in connection with a $2.85 billion credit facility supporting an acquisition of portfolio companies.
  • Represented private equity fund and institutional investor in connection with a $250 million preferred equity raise in a national reinsurance company.
  • Represented large institutional investor in connection with a $1.2 billion debtor-in-possession credit facility to a global auto-part manufacturing company.
  • Represented real estate investing company in connection with a $29 million secured private placement note issuance to institutional purchasers to fund investment in regional land-banking programs.
  • Represented lead arranger and administrative agent in connection with a multi-million dollar first-lien credit facility supporting a financial sponsor’s acquisition of a regional restaurant chain. 
  • Represented a life-sciences focused hedge fund in a multi-tranche senior debt facility for a biotechnology company specializing in radiopharmaceutical molecular imaging. 
  • Represented senior lender and administrative agent in work-out and restructuring of a $57 million first and second lien credit facility, involving the exchange of debt for equity and the auction and sale of assets. 

Recognition

Boston College Law School

  • Executive Editor, U.C.C. Reporter-Digest 
  • Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy Fellow
  • National Moot Court – New England Regional Champion 

Education

  • Boston College Law School, J.D.
  • Temple University, B.A.

Bar Admissions

  • New York

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