Kirkland & Ellis advised semiconductor supplier Renesas Electronics Corp. (TSE: 6723) on a supply agreement with chipmaker Wolfspeed Inc. (NYSE: WOLF), which will allow Renesas to secure a 10-year supply commitment of silicon carbide bare and epitaxial wafers from Wolfspeed. As part of the agreement, Renesas provided a $2 billion deposit. Read the transaction press release The Kirkland team was led by debt finance partners Whitney Bosworth and Jason Kanner and associate Matt Truedson; corporate partners Marshall Shaffer and Daniel Wolf and associate Daniel Yip; international trade & national security partners Ivan Schlager and Nathan Mitchell; and capital markets partners Shagufa Hossain and Rachel Sheridan.