Paul Guan

Practice Areas

Mr. Paul Guan is a partner in the Hong Kong office of Kirkland & Ellis and he leads the Asia private equity real estate practice. Mr. Guan focuses on cross-border real estate transactions and has significant experiences advising international and regional private equity investors and financial institutions on a variety of transactions involving real estate in Asia, including acquisition and disposition of various types of real property, formation of joint venture at both asset and platform levels, asset and property management, and senior and mezzanine financing; he also regularly advises Chinese institutional investors on outbound real estate investments in the United States, the United Kingdom and "Belt & Road" jurisdictions.

Mr. Guan has been ranked as a leading lawyer or recommended by Chambers Greater China, IFLR 1000 and Legal 500 Asia-Pacific. He was also selected as one of the “A-List China’s Elite 100 Lawyers” by China Business Law Journal in 2021. He is triple qualified in the PRC (non-practicing), Hong Kong SAR and New York, the USA.