Fred N. Lim, P.C.

Partner Debt Finance

Bay Area – San Francisco +1 415 439 1441

Fred N. Lim, P.C.

Practices

Overview

Fred Lim is a corporate partner in the Bay Area office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Fred focuses on representing private equity sponsors and capital sources in complex financing transactions, representing private equity groups in structuring and negotiating financing transactions in connection with leveraged buyouts, take-private acquisitions, recapitalizations, cross-border transactions and restructurings. He is also experienced with representing lenders in private debt financings, asset based and other secured lending and specialized collateral transactions.

Turn/River Capital in its $4.4 billion acquisition of SolarWinds Corp., a provider of observability and IT management software

Thoma Bravo in its pending $10.55 billion acquisition of digital aviation assets from aerospace company Boeing

Envision Healthcare Corporation in its refinancing of its credit facilities

Thoma Bravo in its financing of its acquisition of Bluesight, Inc.

Mavis Tire Express Services, a portfolio company of Baypine, in its financing of its acquisition of NTB Tire and Service Centers

Thoma Bravo in its $2.6 billion financing of its take-private of Coupa Software

Turn/River Management in its financing of its take-private of Tufin

Thoma Bravo in its financing of its acquisition of Grayshift

Goodwin Procter LLP

Dickinson Wright PLLC

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Thought Leadership

Publications

Author, “Grey Tuesday Leads to Blue Monday: Digital Sampling of Sound Recordings After the Grey Album,” University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy, 369, Fall 2004

Recognition

Fred was a 2021 & 2023 recommended lawyer for Commercial Lending by The Legal 500 United States. He has also been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.

Memberships & Affiliations

American Bar Association

Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2008California

Courts

  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Languages

  • English
  • Hokkien

Education

  • University of Illinois College of LawJ.D.cum laude2005
    Journal of Law, Technology and Policy, Production Editor
  • Michigan Technological UniversityB.S., Environmental Engineering2002
  • Michigan Technological UniversityA.S., Applied Science & Chemical Engineering Technologycum laude2002