Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
Client SatisfactionKirkland & Ellis International LLP‘s banking and finance team is sought after by private equity sponsors, credit funds, and strategic corporate investors; its focus is on acting on the debtor side and on complex, sponsor-led deals. Team co-head Jacqueline Zheng, in Hong Kong, acts on both onshore and offshore acquisition deals in Greater China. Manas Chandrashekar, co-head, has a practice emphasising acquisition and leveraged financings, including in India and Southeast Asia. Sean Zhang is the key contact in Shanghai, promoted to partner in October 2023.
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Key clients
- Bain Capital Private Equity
- KKR
- The Carlyle Group
- Advent International
- EQT
- Quadria Capital
- PAG
- Kedaara Capital
- Warburg Pincus
- Affiliates of LOGOS Property
- Platinum Equity
- Apax
- Blackstone
Work highlights
- Advising a buyer consortium led by Bain Capital as transaction counsel to certain affiliates of Bain Capital on the US$3.16 billion take-private of Chindata Group Holdings Limited
- Advising Bain Capital Private Equity in its equity investment in EcoCeres, Inc., an Asia-based innovative biorefinery company with world-leading R&D capabilities.
- Advising EQT on the debt financing for its approximately US$1.25 billion acquisition of Florida based sports education institution, IMG Academy, representing a first-of-a-kind transaction where an Asian bank financing was used to fund a U.S. acquisition with no immediate nexus to Asia.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Manas Chandrashekar, Jacqueline Zheng