Kirkland Counsels Underwriters in ZTO's Initial Public Offering

Kirkland & Ellis represented Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C, China Renaissance Securities, Citigroup, Credit Suisse and J.P. Morgan as underwriters in the US$1.4 billion initial public offering of American depositary shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) of ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc. (NYSE: ZTO), a leading express delivery company in China. The listing took place on Oct. 27, 2016 and is expected to be the largest initial public offering of the year. The full release is available here.

The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners David Zhang, Benjamin Su, Gary Li and Steve Lin; capital markets partner Joshua Korff; international trade partner Joanna Ritcey-Donohue; litigation partner Agnes Li; and tax partners Michael Beinus and Angela Rohman Russo.