Co-President and Founding Partner
HPS Investment Partners
Mr. Patterson is Co-President and a Founding Partner of HPS Investment Partners, where he is the Portfolio Manager for the HPS Specialty Loan Funds and the Core Senior Lending Funds. He is also the Chairman and CEO of the HPS Corporate Lending Fund and the HPS Corporate Capital Solutions Fund. In addition, Mr. Patterson is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee and a Senior Managing Director in the Private Financing Solutions (PFS) Executive Office, which leads BlackRock’s private credit, GP/LP solutions, and liquid and private credit CLO businesses. Mr. Patterson joined HPS at its inception in 2007, establishing the European business before returning to the United States in 2009. Before joining HPS, Mr. Patterson was with Silver Point Capital in the U.S. and Europe and the Goldman Sachs Principal Investing Area in New York. Prior to his investing career, Mr. Patterson served as an officer in the United States Navy. Mr. Patterson holds an AB in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
Partner, Restructuring Group
Kirkland & Ellis, LLP
Chris Greco is a partner in the Restructuring Group of Kirkland & Ellis and serves as the global co-chair of the Firm’s Recruiting Committee. He represents companies, sponsors and investors in complex liability management, financings, recapitalizations, restructurings and other special situation transactions. For nearly two decades, Chris has advised clients on some of the largest stressed and distressed situations in the energy, retail, healthcare, entertainment, media, education, technology, transportation, and global engineering and construction industries. Chris is consistently recognized as one of the country’s top restructuring and liability management attorneys by numerous leading industry publications including Chambers USA and The Legal 500 U.S. Chris is a frequent lecturer, speaker, and writer on restructuring related topics. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Visitors for Wake Forest University School of Law and as a member of the Board of Trustees of The Episcopal School in the City of New York. Chris also serves on the Board of Trustees of Catholic Charities of New York along with a number of senior executives and professionals around the Archdiocese of New York. Additionally, Chris serves on the Executive Committee of Catholic Renewal, a group of professionals in the corporate restructuring industry committed to providing charitable assistance to those in need. Chris earned a BS (cum laude) from Villanova University and a JD (cum laude, Order of the Coif) from Wake Forest University School of Law.
