Wei-Yang Lim

Practice Areas

Wei-Yang Lim is a partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP (U.S.). His practice encompasses advising senior management, corporations, private equity sponsors, credit funds and hedge funds on debt restructurings and financing transactions across the Asia Pacific region. Wei-Yang has particular experience in advising distressed and special situations investors on transactions involving complex cross-border capital structures, including transactions involving schemes of arrangement, PRC bankruptcy proceedings, Indonesian PKPUs, Indian Corporate Insolvency Resolution Processes, U.S. Chapter 11 proceedings, U.K. administration, judicial management processes, provisional liquidations and other security enforcements across multiple jurisdictions.

Wei-Yang was named as a “Rising Star Partner” for restructuring and insolvency by IFLR1000, selected as one of the “Rising Stars” by China Business Law Journal in 2022 and ranked as an “Up and Coming” notable practitioner for restructuring and insolvency (China) by Chambers and Partners 2022.