Kirsten attended Duke University and Harvard Law School before starting her career in New York at Cahill Gordon. She has experience in a wide variety of capital markets transactions, particularly with respect to 144A / Reg S high yield debt financings, along with private placements and equity issuances. Before joining Covenant Review, Kirsten was a European high yield specialist in the London offices of Cahill Gordon and Weil, and also spent a year in the U.S. as a REITs specialist at Alston & Bird. Kirsten joined Covenant Review in 2019.

Luke Millar joined as Editor-in-chief at LevFin Insights in 2021. Prior to this he was a director and managing editor at Leveraged Commentary & Data (LCD), where he covered all aspects of the leveraged finance market for 10 years. Before that, he covered the credit markets for IFR’s real time new service.

Mark is a Product Strategist and Senior Analyst, covering European HY TMT. In his Product Strategist role, Mark focuses on using emerging machine learning technologies to empower CreditSights research and data. Prior to becoming President of CreditSights’ European business in 2019, Mark was Co-Head of European High Yield and a Senior Analyst covering the European Telecoms and Media sectors. Mark joined CreditSights in 2007, having previously worked in Shanghai as a project manager with Chinese market research firm C-Insight. He received a BA degree in international studies and religious studies from Colby College in 2005 and a graduate diploma in China studies from Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University. Mark is a CFA Charterholder.

Matt Dickinson is a Senior Reporter at LevFin Insights, covering distressed special situations. He has been covering the leveraged finance markets at LevFin Insights (previously CapitalStructure) in various guises since 2011. Before that he worked for a range of regional and national news outlets across the UK, and also qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG.