Cristina Weidner

Practice Areas

Cristina is a restructuring partner in the Munich office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. She advises on financial and corporate restructurings, acting for sponsors, creditors and investors in turnaround situations. One focus is the advice to German companies on their financial restructurings by use of international restructuring tools, often in complex constellations with multi-layered financing structures. Cristina also advises (secured) creditors on the financial restructuring of their borrowers. She acts regularly for creditors in the context of distressed M&A transactions and German insolvency proceedings.

Career

Admitted in Germany 2005; Clifford Chance LLP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, associate 2008-2014, counsel 2014-2021, partner 2021-2023; Kirkland & Ellis International LLP, Munich, Germany, partner 2023 to present.

Professional Memberships

Turnaround Management Association (TMA Deutschland e.V.)

Executive Committee of the Insolvency and Restructuring Working Group of the German Bar Association (DAV)

Personal

Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany (First State Examination, 2002); Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Second State Examination, 2005); Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Dr. jur., 2008).