Morrison & Foerster has continued expanding in the Asian region after adding Nicholas Sheets as a partner in the firm’s private funds group in Hong Kong.

Sheets, who worked for more than eight years as an associate at the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, departed in March this year for Kirkland & Ellis, where he spent a short time.

Sheets is MoFo’s seventh partner-level hire in Asia so far this year. Project finance specialists Jon Ornolfsson and Tessa Davis joined the Singapore office, while the firm also hired antitrust and investigations partner Daiske Yoshida in Tokyo, capital markets partner Ke Huang in Hong Kong, and corporate partners Ruomu Li and Lucy (Qiong) Lu in Shanghai and Beijing, respectively.

Sheets’ practice focuses on the representation of private equity sponsors in their fund formations, co-investments, and related activities. He has advised funds in China, Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia.

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