Banking and finance

Kirkland & Ellis

Client Satisfaction

Counting private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers and credit funds among its key roster of clients, Kirkland & Ellis maintains a robust practice in debt financing, including leveraged and acquisition financing mandates. Manas Chandrashekar and Jacqueline Zheng jointly lead the practice; Chandrashekar advises on acquisition and structured financing matters across the APAC region, while acquisition finance expert Zheng focuses on onshore and offshore acquisition deals in Greater China. Karen Ho, who acts for private equity sponsors on cross-border leveraged finance transactions, is another key contact in the group.

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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 $3.16bn take-private of Chindata Group Holdings Limited.
Advising Bain Capital Private Equity on 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 $1.25 bn 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.