Xin Florence Zhang

Prior to and since joining Kirkland, notable representations include the following:

• Act III Holdings in its $70 million investment in BJ's Restaurants, along with funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates
• American Express in the sale of its JetBlue Airways co-branded credit card portfolio to Barclays Bank Delaware
• AT&T in its sale of its U.S. video business unit with an enterprise value of $16.25 billion to TPG Capital
• Bright House Networks in the $80 billion three-way combination with Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable
• Cheniere Energy and its Board of Directors in connection with the appointment of Jack A. Fusco as president and chief executive officer, of Cheniere
• A consortium led by China Three Gorges, including Hubei Energy Group, ACE Investment Fund and CNIC Corporation, in the $1.39 billion acquisition of Empresa de Generación Huallaga from Odebrecht Energia del Perú and Odebrecht Energía
• Columbia Pipeline Group in its $13 billion acquisition by TransCanada
• Diageo in its $610 million acquisition of Aviation American Gin through the acquisition of Aviation Gin and Davos Brands and $550 million sale of nineteen brands to Sazerac
• Empire Company in connection with the acquisition by its subsidiary, Sobeys, of substantially all the assets of Safeway's Canadian subsidiary
• Fortress Management in its acquisition of Fortress investment Group from SoftBank*
• GGP in its $28 billion acquisition by Brookfield Property Partners
• Golub Capital LLC in its sale of passive, non-voting minority stake in Golub Capital’s management companies to Korea Investment Corporation*
• Industrious National Management in the sale of 40% of its interest to CBRE Group for approximately $200 million and the transfer of CBRE's flexible-space solutions offering, Hana
• Intercontinental Exchange in its $5.2 billion acquisition of Interactive Data Corporation
• Iron Park Capital in its acquisition by General Atlantic*
• MSD Partners in its strategic business combination with BDT & Company*
• NetScout Systems in its acquisition of Gigavation
• NorthStar Asset Management Group in its $6 billion merger of equals with Colony Capital and NorthStar Realty Finance, creating a world-class, internally-managed, diversified real estate and investment management platform
• NorthStar Realty Europe in its $860 million acquisition by AXA Investment Managers
• Sempra Energy in its cooperation agreement with affiliates of Elliott Management and Bluescape Energy Partners
• Shamrock Capital in connection with a minority investment in its business by RidgeLake Partners, a strategic partnership between Ottawa Avenue Private Capital and Apogem Capital, and Bonaccord Capital Partners*
• Sprout Pharmaceuticals in its $1 billion acquisition by Valeant Pharmaceuticals International
• Tillman Infrastructure in connection with UBS Asset Management's strategic minority investment in Tillman*

*Since joining Kirkland