Kirkland & Ellis recently hired private equity and M&A lawyer Peng Yu to its Hong Kong office as a partner. Previously, Yu practiced as a partner at Ropes & Gray for over 11 years.

Yu has extensive experience in assisting private equity and corporate clients in a variety of significant transactions, specializing in buyouts, privatizations, private equity investments in public companies, growth capital investments, divestitures, joint ventures and other cross-border transactions.