Ms Jacqueline Zheng > Kirkland & Ellis > Hong Kong, Hong Kong > Lawyer Profile
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Ms Jacqueline Zheng
Work Department
Debt Finance
Position
Partner
Career
Jacqueline Zheng is the co-head of the Asia debt finance practice of Kirkland & Ellis. Jacqueline has over 15 years of experience in advising private equity sponsors, strategic investors and credit funds on complex cross-border acquisition financing, back leverage, margin loans, structured financing, direct lending and special situations transactions across the Asia Pacific region. Jacqueline has been named a “Leading Individual” in Banking & Finance by Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020–2024. She has been recognized by Chambers Greater China and Chambers Global in 2023 and 2024 as a “Leading Lawyer” in Leveraged & Acquisition Finance, and by IFLR1000 as a “Highly Regarded” and “Women Leaders” in Leveraged Finance in 2024 and Banking in 2023. She was also named as “Banking & Finance Lawyer of the Year” by 2022 Euromoney APAC Women in Business Law Awards.
Languages
English, Mandarin, Shanghai Dialect
Education
City University of Hong Kong, PCLL, 2007
University of New South Wales, LL.B.; B.Com., Finance, 2006
Lawyer Rankings
China > Banking and finance: foreign firms
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP‘s banking and finance team is sought after by private equity sponsors, credit funds, and strategic corporate investors; its focus is on acting on the debtor side and on complex, sponsor-led deals. Team co-head Jacqueline Zheng, in Hong Kong, acts on both onshore and offshore acquisition deals in Greater China. Manas Chandrashekar, co-head, has a practice emphasising acquisition and leveraged financings, including in India and Southeast Asia. Sean Zhang is the key contact in Shanghai, promoted to partner in October 2023.
Hong Kong > Banking and finance
(Leading partners)Counting private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers and credit funds among its key roster of clients, Kirkland & Ellis maintains a robust practice in debt financing, including leveraged and acquisition financing mandates. Manas Chandrashekar and Jacqueline Zheng jointly lead the practice; Chandrashekar advises on acquisition and structured financing matters across the APAC region, while acquisition finance expert Zheng focuses on onshore and offshore acquisition deals in Greater China. Karen Ho, who acts for private equity sponsors on cross-border leveraged finance transactions, is another key contact in the group.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Capital markets (equity)
- Corporate (including M&A)
- Investment funds
- Private equity
- Restructuring and insolvency