5 January, 2015
Kirkland & Ellis represents a consortium led by Mr. Michael Xiangyu Chen, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors of iDreamSky and Mr. Anfernee Song Guan, chief technology officer and a director of iDreamSky, together with certain rollover securityholders and new investors, including, among others, V Capital, Prometheus Capital, Legend Capital, We Capital, Star VC or their affiliated entities, in their acquisition of NASDAQ-listed iDreamSky Technology Limited, China’s leading independent mobile game publishing platform. The merger agreement was announced on December 31, 2015.
The Kirkland team is led by Hong Kong corporate partners David Zhang, Jesse Sheley and Amie Tang.