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Mr Paul Guan
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Partner
Career
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 Lawyers” by China Business Law Journal in 2021 and 2022. He is triple qualified in the PRC (non-practicing), Hong Kong SAR and New York, the USA.
Languages
English, Mandarin
Education
Harvard Law School LL.M., 2011
East China University of Political Science and Law, Ph.D., 2009
East China University of Political Science and Law, LL.M., Honored, 2006
East China University of Political Science and Law, LL.B., Honored, 2003
Lawyer Rankings
China > Corporate and M&A: foreign firms
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP‘s China team is consistently sought out by public and private companies to advise on high-stakes M&A deals. The multidisciplinary team comprises specialists in public and private M&A, capital markets, finance, private funds and other transactional practices, and it is particularly active in SPAC M&A transactions. The practice is jointly led from the Hong Kong office by Pierre-Luc Arsenault, Joey Chau, David Patrick Eich and Paul Guan, alongside Gary Li, Nicholas Norris
, Jesse Sheley, Peng Yu and David Zhang.