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Amin Doulai and Richard Kitchen are London-based partners in King & Spalding’s private credit & special situations team, both specialising in leveraged acquisition finance.

Kitchen began his career advising investment banks on broadly syndicated loans, and was seconded to Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs, before moving to Paul Hastings in 2015 to help establish a leveraged finance offering. He said: “Lawyers, just like journalists, have to follow the trends.  I retain a broad practice but with a strong emphasis on private credit.”

Doulai focused on private equity finance and private credit after joining up with Kitchen in 2018. He was previously a banking associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.  “It was clear how significant the growth in European private credit would be and I wanted to be more market-facing,” he said. “So I shifted my focus and have never looked back.”