About

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Kirkland & Ellis is a global leader in providing sophisticated advice to investment fund sponsors, institutional investors and other market participants in the alternative investment fund space. Kirkland offers clients the unsurpassed resources of a large, integrated, multidisciplinary, global team located across offices in the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific. With more than 230 dedicated Investment Funds attorneys, including 70 partners, few firms approach the breadth, depth and scope of Kirkland’s experience in investment funds legal services.

With one of the largest and most active client bases of any law firm, Kirkland is uniquely positioned to provide unsurpassed market intelligence and cutting-edge solutions to address the broad spectrum of legal, regulatory, tax and commercial challenges facing investment funds and their sponsors in today’s market. Kirkland’s Investment Funds attorneys represent a diverse group of clients ranging from some of the world’s largest multi-strategy alternative asset managers and financial institutions to independent boutiques and sponsors raising first-time funds. Kirkland also represents a wide range of institutional investors around the globe, including sovereign wealth funds, family offices, corporations and other investors in private funds. These clients operate across a broad spectrum of alternative investment asset classes and strategies.

Chambers Review

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Investment Funds: Private Equity - Asia-Pacific Region
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Band 1
What the Team is Known For

Kirkland & Ellis has an exceptional reputation in the private equity arena, acting for a spectrum of top-end managers, sponsors and investors. Its skilled Hong Kong-based legal team is praised for its deft handling of fund mandates throughout the Asia region, and across a broad range of industries, advising on fund formation and management as well as on relevant regulatory issues. The firm is active across a range of private funds, including growth funds and venture capital funds, as well as credit funds and real estate funds. Its excellence is further enhanced by its ability to leverage the expertise of top-tier practitioners elsewhere in the world.

Notable practitioners

Department co-heads Justin Dolling, Jennifer Feng and Carol Liu in Hong Kong are the key contacts.

Work Highlights

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  • Kirkland & Ellis advised Forebright Capital on the closing of Forebright New Opportunities Fund III.

Strengths

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