Eric Li is a corporate associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Eric represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.
Experience
Representative Matters
Since joining Kirkland, Eric has been involved in the following matters:
senior management of Fortress Investment Group on its definitive agreements along with Mubadala Capital to acquire 90.01% of the equity of Fortress that is currently held by SoftBank Group Corp.
Hermetic Solutions Group, Inc. (HSG), a portfolio company of Windjammer Capital Investors, on the sale of HSG to Qnnect LLC, a portfolio company of Arcline Investment Management
Prior to joining Kirkland, Eric was involved in the following matters:
Berkshire Partners and its portfolio company National Carwash Solutions Inc. in National Carwash’s acquisition of Zep Vehicle Care
Berkshire Partners and Permira Advisers in their sale of a majority stake in Teraco Data Environments (Pty) Ltd.
Berkshire Partners in its acquisition of a minority stake in EP Wealth Advisors
Providence Equity Partners in Blackboard Inc.’s sale to Anthology (a portfolio company of Veritas Capital and Leeds Equity Partners)
Alpine Investors, in its acquisition of RA Outdoors (d/b/a Aspira) from Vista Equity Partners
Riverside Assessments, a portfolio company of Alpine Investors, in its acquisition of ImPACT
Riverside Assessments, a portfolio company of Alpine Investors, in its acquisition of ESGI
Pfenex Inc. in its sale to Ligand Pharmaceuticals through tender offer and subsequent merger
OmniVision Technologies, Inc. in its acquisition of assets of Synaptics’ single-chip LCD touch controller and driver integration business line in multiple jurisdictions
Bright Food Group in its sale of a controlling stake in Weetabix
Hutchison 3G UK Limited and its Hong Kong parent company, CK Hutchison Holdings Limited, in the acquisition of 100% of the share capital of a holding company of UK Broadband Limited from PCCW Limited
Prior Experience
Associate, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Associate, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
New York
California
Languages
English
Mandarin
Education
Harvard Law SchoolLL.M.
Peking UniversityJ.M.; J.D.
Tsinghua UniversityB.A., English Language and Literature