Morrison & Foerster has hired private funds partner Nicholas Sheets from Kirkland & Ellis.

Sheets, who is fluent in Mandarin, will join Morrison & Foerster’s Hong Kong office after less than a year as a partner in Kirkland’s New York office. He specialises in the structuring, formation and offering of private equity funds for sponsors based in the U.S. and Asia, especially China, Japan, South Korea and Indonesia.