Bio
Profile
Experience
Kim & Chang (2008-Present)
Judge Advocate, Republic of Korea Army (2005-2008)
Representative Mattersshow
- Represented shareholders of a real estate trust company in its sale of the company to a domestic financial group.
- Represented a global PEF in its acquisition of a domestic auto part manufacturing company by comprehensive business transfer.
- Represented a global PEF in its acquisition of a domestic social commerce business company.
- Represented a public fund of an overseas nation in its acquisition of a major domestic construction company.
- Represented a domestic tire company in its acquisition of a tire distribution company in Australia.
- Represented an offshore fund in its acquisition of a domestic cosmetics company.
- Represented a liquor group in its sale of its subsidiary.
- Represented a financial company in its acquisition of indirect shares of a Chinese transportation company.
- Represented a domestic steel manufacturing company in its mergers with affiliates.
- Represented a domestic company in its acquisition of a movie screening business company.
- Represented an offshore PEF in its acquisition of a domestic forwarding business company.
- Represented an offshore fund in its acquisition of a domestic battery circuit manufacturing company by way of tender offer.
- Represented a global bio company in its acquisition of a domestic bio company by way of tender offer.
- Represented a domestic PE in its establishment of a blind PEF.
- Represented a domestic PEF in its acquisition of a job recruitment tool provider.
- Represented a domestic PEF in its acquisition of an urban mining company.
- Represented a domestic PEF in its acquisition of a space rental business company.
- Represented a domestic PEF in its acquisition of a pharmaceutical company.
- Represented many offshore investment managers in their business in Korea including fund marketing regulation.
- Represented many offshore investment managers in their fund registration with the Financial Services Commission (FSC).
- Represented many domestic institutions in their investment into offshore funds.
- Represented many domestic asset management companies in their establishment of funds (trust type funds).
- Represented an investor or manager on a dispute related to fund investment.
Representative Activitiesshow
Publications/Activities
- The Private Equity Review (Second edition): Part I, Fundraising - "Korea" chapter (Co-author, Law Business Research, 2013)
- Purchases by Tender Offeror Outside of a Tender Offer, BFL Vol. No. 55 (Co-author, 2012)
Education
UCLA School of Law (LL.M., 2014)
Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (2005)
College of Law, Korea University (LL.B., 2003)
Qualifications
Admitted to bar, Korea, 2005
Languages
Korean and English