Mr Justin Dolling > Kirkland & Ellis > Hong Kong, Hong Kong > Lawyer Profile

Kirkland & Ellis LLP remains very active in the market advising an impressive roster of fund managers, including Ares Management and Forebright Capital, on their Asia-based fund raisings – regularly drawing additional strength from the firm’s huge private equity offering throughout the US. The ‘very rigorous and professional’ Carol Liu has excellent traction among PRC and regional asset managers which she advises on the establishment of funds traversing a range of strategies including buyout, growth capital, venture capital, and private credit. Liu has also been very active of late advising on liquidity solutions for clients in the sector, both on the GP front (in terms of continuation funds) and for LPs, including Cathay Life Insurance which she advised on the $1.2bn sale of limited partner interests in 21 private funds. The vastly experienced Justin Dolling provides very strategic advice to international sponsors and regional fund managers establishing private funds in the region, as well as advising on carried interest and co-investment plans. Jennifer Feng co-heads the team with Dolling and Liu.

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP‘s Hong Kong-based group acts on the gamut of funds work. It handles fund structuring and formation, as well as fund-related restructurings, buyouts, special situations and distressed investments. The practice’s principal advisers are Justin Dolling, who advises on major deals across the investment funds spectrum, including fund structuring and establishment, secondary transactions, restructuring, and refinancing; Carol Liu, a regular adviser on fund structuring, and liquidity and GP solutions; and Jennifer Feng, who is experienced in fundraising, fund establishment, restructuring and carried interest schemes. The team further includes Jamie Hill, who is particularly focused on private equity, credit and real assets, and secondary transactions specialist Michelle Cheh. Damian Jacobs relocated to the firm’s US offices.