Kirkland & Ellis advised Bain Capital Private Equity in its significant equity investment in EcoCeres, Inc., an Asia-based innovative biorefinery company with leading R&D capabilities. EcoCeres is incubated by The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited, a main energy supplier in Hong Kong, which remains as a strategic shareholder in EcoCeres following the transaction. Read Bain Capital’s press release The Kirkland team was led by transactional partners Nicholas Norris, Joey Chau, Pierre-Luc Arsenault and Stacey Shen, with assistance from transactional associate Serene Lu. Debt finance partners Jacqueline Zheng and Karen Ho led the financing aspect of the transaction, with assistance from debt finance associates Dora Cheung and Rachel Kwong. The team also included capital market partners Mengyu Lu and Kelvin Chu, antitrust partners Paula Riedel and Athina Van Melkebeke and associates Samantha Jones and Ankita Gulati, banking regulatory of counsel Julie Kunetka, environmental transactions partner James Dolphin and associate Cheyenne Overall, ESG & Impact partners Abbey Raish and Sara Orr and associates Maddy Foote and Andy Burnett, government, regulatory & internal investigations partners Cori Lable, Yue Qiu and associate Nan Hu, tax partners Mike Carew and Christine Lehman and associate Joe Morley and technology & IP transactions partner Min Wang and associate Noah Shier.