Our highly capable and deeply experienced team of lawyers offers one-stop legal services to our private equity clients on all aspects of fund operations and transactions, including:

• Tax structuring for fund formation;
• Fund registration under the Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets Act;
• Venture capital financing, including seed funding and growth funding rounds;
• Inbound and outbound M&A transactions, including leveraged buyouts and going-private transactions;
• Financial sponsor exit transactions, including through IPOs, competitive bid auctions and privately negotiated deals; and
• Acquisition financing.

Our Private Equity Practice regularly advises and represents local and global private equity funds active in the Korean market as well as Korean limited partners investing into overseas funds.

M&A Transactions

• Sale of Medit Corporation by Unison Capital
• Acquisition of a business unit of SK Chemicals by Hahn & Company
• Acquisition of industrial gas supply facilities and related assets from SK Hynix’s Icheon Plant by Brookfield Asset Management
• Purchase of Doosan Machine Tools by DTR Automotive Corporation
• Sale of Hugel by Bain Capital Private Equity
• Acquisition of equity interest in Hanssem by IMM Private Equity
• Acquisition of equity interest in SK E&S by KKR
• Acquisition of equity interest in GS Power by IMM Investment
• Acquisition of equity interest in IMG Technology Korea and IME Technology Luxembourg by STIC Investment
• Acquisition of Dongjin Textile and Kyungjin Textile by MBK Partners
• Acquisition of Taylor Made Golf Company by Centroid Investment Partners
• Sale of EMC Holdings by Affirma Capital Managers Korea
• Acquisition of Daesung Industrial Gases by Macquarie
• Sale of KCF Technologies by KKR
• Sale of Coway by MBK Partners
• Acquisition of Geo Young Corporation by the Blackstone Group
• Acquisition of Fluid Pressure & Controls business from Magna International by Hanon System
• Sale of Orange Life Insurance by MBK Partners
• Acquisition of SK Shipping by Hahn & Company
• Acquisition of ADT Caps by Macquarie Korea Opportunities Management - SK TELECOM
• Acquisition of LS Mtron and LS Automotive by KKR
• Sale of Halla Cement by Baring PE
• Sale of Carver Korea by Bain Capital consortium
• Acquisition of Modern House Home Living Business by MBK Partners
• Acquisition of Hugel by Bain Capital
• Acquisition of equity interest in Kakao Mobility by TPG Consortium
• Acquisition of Daesung Industrial Gases by MBK Partners
• Sale of Daesung Industrial Gases by Goldman Sachs PIA
• Acquisition of Hyundai Cement by LK Investment and Hanil Cement
• Sale of Kyungnam Energy by Anchor Equity Partners
• Acquisition of equity stake in Hyundai Card by Affinity Consortium 
• Acquisition of ABLE C&C by IMM Private Equity
• Acquisition of IFC Seoul by Brookfield Asset Management
• Acquisition of Doosan Infracore’s machine tool business by MBK Partners
• Acquisition of Hyundai Merchant Marine’s Bulk Business Department by H-Line Shipping, a portfolio company of Hahn & Company
• Acquisition of Body Friend by VIG Fund
• Acquisition of Ticket Monster by KKR and Anchor Equity Partners
• Acquisition of Young Toys by PAG Asia Capital
• Acquisition of Halla Visteon Climate Control by Hahn & Company
• Acquisition and Sale of Tong Yang Life Insurance by VIG Fund.
• Acquisition of Hyosung’s packaging performance unit by Standard Chartered Private Equity
• Acquisition of Hanwha L&C by Morgan Stanley Private Equity
• Acquisition of LNG transportation business of Hyundai Merchant Marine by IMM Private Equity and IMM Investment
• Sale of Oriental Brewery by KKR and Affinity Equity Partners

Venture Capital

• Various transactions by SoftBank Ventures Korea, including its sale of shares in Korbit, a cryptocurrency exchange, and its investment in Tokopedia, an Indonesian company
• Acquisition of equity interest in Qraft Technologies by SoftBank Group
• Acquisition of equity interest in Dunamu and Toss Lab by Qualcomm Ventures
• Investment in Woowa Brothers by Goldman Sachs PIA and Issuance of newly issued shares by Woowa Brothers
• Sale of equity interest by Bagelcode
• Acquisition of equity interest in Cowin DST by KCA Capital, a Singaporean-Chinese joint venture
• Investments in Collective Ground Incorporation and Classting by Mistletoe, a Japanese-Singaporean Venture Capital
• Acquisition of equity interest in Prinker Korea by L’Oréal
• Acquisition of equity interest in Medipixel by Philips Korea
• Acquisition of equity interest in WAGTI by Handsome
• Establishment of a venture fund in Singapore by Korea Investment Partners
• Promotional activities of IVWorks
• Flip transaction by Copin Communications
• Acquisition of equity interest in Warp Solution Inc. by Global Brain
• Investment in Gojek Indonesia by Samsung Venture Investment
• Preferred shares financing from Walden SKT Venture Fund, L.P. by Shakr Media
• Acquisition of equity interest in Bankware Global by Alibaba
• Acquisition of equity interest in Innospark Inc. by Keytone Ventures
• RCPS investment in TG Optoelectronics Technology Corporation by Applied Ventures
• Acquisition of equity interest in Iones by Applied Materials
• Acquisition of equity interest in Pixelplus by Kamur Partners
• Promotional activities by Skylake Investment and GIC Private Equity in respect of Yanolja
• Issuance of new shares and sale of equity interest by Yanolja
• Acquisition of equity interests in Viva Republica, Plugo, GFFG, Beauty Selection and Katchers by Altos Ventures
• Promotional activities of Viva Republica
• Acquisition of equity interest in ZIGBANG and Green Labs by BRV Capital Management
• Investment in Rebellions by Pavilion Capital
• Issuance of convertible preferred shares by Kurly
• Promotional activities of HIGROUND
• Equity financing by Riiid
• Equity financing by Bucketplace
• Sale of newly issued shares by Mykoon
• Acquisition of OTT platform from HOOQ Digital by Coupang
• Acquisition of equity interest in Coupang by Forward Ventures

Fund Formation

• Onshore PEF formation of Macquarie Korea Opportunities Management, MBK Partners, STIC Investments, Standard Chartered Private Equity, IMM Private Equity, VIG Partners, Unison Capital, Hahn & Company
• Offshore private fund formation of Anchor Equity Partners, Softbank Ventures Asia
• Formation of various types of collective investment vehicles such as investment trusts and venture capital funds