Kirkland & Ellis adds Chinese PE lawyer to HK office
Kirkland & Ellis has added private equity M&A specialist Frank Sun to its Hong Kong practice. Sun joins the firm as a partner from US rival Paul Weiss.
Sun, who worked as an associate at Kirkland's New York office between 2007 and 2008, will bring the total number of Hong Kong M&A partners to 13.
He has a track record of working on private equity and corporate transactions in China and across Asia, with former clients including The Carlyle Group, CITIC Capital, KKR, Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia, Silver Lake and Temasek Holdings.
"Frank Sun is an important hire for us because he is one of the very rare native Chinese private equity M&A lawyers in the market," David Eich, a founding partner at Kirkland's Hong Kong office, told Legal Week. Eich added that he anticipated a lot more M&A coming out of China.
Kirkland opened its first Asian office in Hong Kong in 2006, three years later it launched in Shanghai and in summer 2011 bulked up its Hong Kong team with eight new partners poached from rival firms.
It now has a team of more than 65 lawyers in Asia. The firm applied for a license to open in Beijing last September.
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