Frank C. Liu

Prior to and since joining Kirkland, Frank was involved in the following matters:

• Heron Therapeutics in connection with a cooperation agreement with Rubric Capital and Velan Capital.
• WeWork Inc. and its subsidiaries in connection with the comprehensive restructuring of its capital structure through a series of transactions with an ad hoc group of noteholders representing more than 60% of the company’s public notes, a third-party investor and affiliates of SoftBank Group Corp.
• Celanese Corporation in its $11 billion acquisition of a majority of DuPont’s Mobility & Materials Business.
• Inmarsat in its $7.3 billion acquisition by Viasat, Inc.
• Turn/River Capital in its $570 million acquisition of Tufin Software Technologies. 
• The Blackstone Group in its $2.25 billion major investment and recapitalization of Precision Medicine Group.*
• Diageo plc in its $550 million sale of a portfolio of nineteen brands to Sazerac.*
• DISH Network Corporation in its $1.4 billion acquisition of Boost Mobile pursuant to an agreement with T-Mobile, Sprint and the U.S. Department of Justice.*
• DraftKings in its acquisition of Vegas Sports Information Network.*
• Harris Corporation in its $35 billion merger of equals with L3 Technologies to form L3Harris Technologies.*
• L3Harris Technologies in its $350 million divestiture of the Harris night vision business to Elbit Systems of America.*
• Merck KGaA in its $6.4 billion acquisition of Versum Materials.*
• Novartis AG in its $9.7 billion acquisition of The Medicines Company.*

*Matters prior to joining Kirkland