Kirkland & Ellis

Debt Finance

Partner

Karen Ho is a partner in the debt finance team in the Hong Kong office of Kirkland & Ellis. Karen focuses on advising global private equity sponsors, credit funds and strategic investors on cross-border leveraged financings, real estate financings, structured financings, margin financings and special situations transactions across the Asia Pacific region. Karen has also spent time on secondment to the leveraged finance team at HSBC in Hong Kong, and the credit funds team of KKR Credit in Hong Kong. Karen is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

Karen has been recognized as a “Rising Star Partner” in leveraged finance by IFLR 1000 2023.

Cantonese, English, Mandarin

University of Hong Kong, PCLL, 2010

University of Hong Kong, LL.B., 2009

University of Hong Kong, B.B.A., Law, 2007