Cooley Nabs Kirkland Fund Formation Lawyer Lina Zhou in New York

Cooley has beefed up its fund formation practice, adding Lina Zhou from Kirkland & Ellis as a partner in New York.

Zhou’s hiring follows Cooley’s addition of five other partners to its fund formation practice in the past year, growing the group to a total of 18 partners. The fund formation practice collaborates with Cooley’s highly-regarded emerging company group.

Zhou, who joined Kirkland in 2016, was part of team that advised private equity firm Butterfly on its $510 million acquisition of Bolthouse Farms from Campbell Soup Co. She was also part of a group that represented Summit Partners in the ...