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Kirkland & Ellis

Asia-Pacific Guide 2024

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Kirkland & Ellis

Kirkland & Ellis

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+1 312 862 2000

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Provided by Kirkland & Ellis
Asia-Pacific

Chairman: Jon A. Ballis, Chair of the Firm Executive Committee

Languages: Cantonese, English, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin

Firm Overview:

For more than 100 years, global clients have called upon Kirkland & Ellis to handle private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions, litigation and dispute resolution/arbitration, restructuring, and intellectual property matters. Today, approximately 3,500 lawyers in 20 international offices are dedicated to providing the highest quality service to clients around the world. The Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai offices have more than 110 lawyers serving global clients on private equity, investment funds, mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, capital markets, restructuring, internal investigations and litigation matters.

Main Areas of Practice:

Antitrust & Competition

Capital Markets

Debt Finance

Financial Services Regulatory

Government & Internal Investigations

International

Litigation & Arbitration

Investment Funds

Mergers & Acquisitions

Private Equity

Restructuring/Insolvency

Antitrust & Competition:

Kirkland advises on all aspects of competition law, including merger control, market dominance, cartel investigations, sector inquiries and private enforcement. The firm represents clients across a range of industries, including financial services, media and communications, energy and transport.

Capital Markets:

Kirkland represents issuers, sponsors and underwriters in a wide variety of international securities transactions, with a particular focus on offerings of high-yield and other debt securities. The firm has solid experience working with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong on some of the most complex and high-profile capital markets transactions in the market.

Debt Finance:

The leading debt finance practice services both borrowers and lenders in a wide variety of financing transactions across the entire capital structure. It engages in every aspect of a financing transaction: advising borrowers and lenders on senior, subordinated, mezzanine and bridge financing transactions, as well as high-yield offerings. The firm has unsurpassed experience in structuring and negotiating the various layers of senior and unsubordinated debt and equity financing in connection with leveraged acquisitions. The group also handles DIP financings, exit financings and debt restructurings.

Government & Internal Investigations:

Lawyers serve as global anti-corruption and international risk counsel for many of the world’s largest investment firms and multinational corporates. They provide risk-based advice to sponsors and their portfolio companies on all issues relating to compliance with relevant anti-corruption, sanctions, anti-money laundering and export controls laws. On-the ground experience in China, India and Greater Asia together with the team’s government experience in the US means the firm has the senior officials who devised the DOJ and SEC’s current policies addressing major issues of individual and corporate criminal and civil liability, available for client seeking the highest levels of guidance on potential international enforcement advice.

International Litigation & Arbitration:

The firm represents multinational corporations, governments and government-owned entities in complex litigation and international arbitration cases around the world. Lawyers are recognised for their experience in the conduct of white- collar crime investigations on a global basis.

Investment Funds:

Kirkland is a global leader in providing sophisticated advice to investment fund sponsors, institutional investors and other market participants in the alternative investment fund space. More than 400 attorneys focus on investment funds across the globe, uniquely positioning the firm to serve its clients in connection with the formation, organisation and operation of buyout, growth-equity, venture, real estate, infrastructure, energy, credit, mezzanine, private equity and hedge funds, as well as their respective management companies.

Private Equity/Mergers & Acquisitions:

Lawyers cover the full spectrum of corporate transactions important to businesses in today’s global marketplace. Because of the firm’s consistently high volume of complex transactional engagements, it has developed a broad vision of the issues that confront business organisations and an aptitude for developing novel, creative and constructive solutions. The firm has extensive experience representing private equity sponsors in complex and cross-border transactions involving listed companies in Asia, as well as US-listed Asia companies.

Restructuring/Insolvency:

By combining sophisticated business advisory and crisis management skills with extensive experience in multijurisdictional insolvency matters, Kirkland’s global restructuring group navigates clients through situations involving financially troubled companies. The firm has earned a distinguished reputation by achieving positive results for a wide range of global clients in complex corporate restructuring, workout and bankruptcy planning, negotiation and litigation. Kirkland also has lawyers with significant experience in the areas of IP, international trade and national security, real estate, regulatory and tax matters.

Ranked Offices

Provided by Kirkland & Ellis

USA - Head office
China
  • Hong Kong
    26th Floor, Gloucester Tower, The Landmark, 15 Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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USA

Contributions

Latest contributions provided by Kirkland & Ellis

Expert Focus
Alexander Längsfeld
Sebastian Trompler
Authored by
Alexander Längsfeld , Sebastian Trompler
Article • Feb 2024
Global Practice Guide
Dale Cendali
Michael Salik
Joshua Simmons
Authored by
Dale Cendali, Michael Salik, Joshua Simmons
Article • Jan 2024
Global Practice Guide
Daniel Lim
Oscar Robinson
Nicola Dagg
Authored by
Daniel Lim, Oscar Robinson, Nicola Dagg
Article • Jan 2024

All contributions provided by Kirkland & Ellis

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Patent Litigation 2024 | UK | Trends and Developments
Authored by: Daniel Lim, Nicola Dagg, Oscar Robinson
Global Practice Guide Jan 2024 Article
Insolvency 2023 | Germany | Trends and Developments
Authored by: Cristina Weidner, Johannes Lappe, Ann-Kathrin Ziegler, Michael Berger
Global Practice Guide Oct 2023 Article
White-Collar Crime 2023 | USA | Law and Practice
Authored by: Brian Benczkowski, John Lausch, Kim Nemirow, Sunil Shenoi
Global Practice Guide Sep 2023 Article
Energy: Oil & Gas 2023 | USA | Law and Practice
Authored by: Anthony Speier, David Castro Jr , Chris Heasley
Global Practice Guide Jul 2023 Article
Trade Secrets 2023 | USA | Law and Practice
Authored by: Claudia Ray, Joseph Loy, Eric Loverro, Shaoyao Yu
Global Practice Guide Apr 2023 Article
Trade Secrets 2023 | UK | Law and Practice
Authored by: Nicola Dagg, Steven Baldwin, Daniel Lim, Gabriella Bornstein
Global Practice Guide Apr 2023 Article

Kirkland & Ellis rankings

Asia-Pacific Guide 2024
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Asia-Pacific Region
Capital Markets: Equity
1 Department
Department
Capital Markets: Equity
3
Capital Markets: Equity
3
Band 3
Corporate/M&A
1 Department
Department
Corporate/M&A
2
Corporate/M&A
2
Band 2
Corporate/M&A: Private Equity
1 Department
Department
Corporate/M&A: Private Equity
1
Corporate/M&A: Private Equity
1
Band 1
Investment Funds: Private Equity
1 Department
Department
Investment Funds: Private Equity
1
Investment Funds: Private Equity
1
Band 1
India
Banking & Finance (International Firms)
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Banking & Finance (International Firms)
3
Banking & Finance (International Firms)
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Manas Chandrashekar
Manas Chandrashekar
China expertise based abroad
Corporate/M&A (International Firms)
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Corporate/M&A (International Firms)
3
Corporate/M&A (International Firms)
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Srinivas Kaushik
Srinivas Kaushik
USA expertise based abroad