Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Corporate

Partner

Peng Yu is a partner in the Hong Kong office of Kirkland & Ellis. He focuses his practice exclusively on private equity matters and mergers and acquisitions. Peng has extensive experience in advising global and regional private equity and corporate clients on a wide range of strategically important transactions, including buyouts, take-privates, PIPEs, growth capital investments, divestitures, joint ventures and other cross-border transactions. These transactions span sectors as diverse as technology, education, health care/life sciences, consumer products, industrials, infrastructure and real estate.

Peng has been recognized by multiple reputable legal publications such as Chambers Greater China, Chambers Asia-Pacific, IFLR 1000 and The Legal 500 Asia Pacific for his private equity and M&A work, and China Law & Practice named him “TMT Lawyer of the Year” in 2018.

English, Mandarin

Columbia Law School, LL.M. James Kent Scholar

University of International Business and Economics, LL.M. (Hons)

University of International Business and Economics, LL.B. (Hons)