• Represented a leading semiconductor company in its leveraged buyout to a consortium of investment firms, which was at the time the largest leveraged buyout ever in the technology sector. 
• Represented a global provider of information technology, business consulting, enterprise applications and business process services and its affiliates in various US and cross-border mergers and acquisition transactions. 
• Represented an e-commerce credit card payment system management company in its agreement to merge with a multinational financial services corporation. 
• Represented a global video game company in its agreement to acquire the holding company of multiple video game developers. 
• Represented a leading pharmaceutical company in its agreement to acquire a health care network dedicated exclusively to cancer treatment and research. 
• Represented a leading global developer of audio, imaging and voice technologies in various US and cross-border mergers and acquisition transactions. 
• Represented a publicly-listed emissions control systems manufacturer and distributer in its stock-for-stock merger with a global vehicle emissions control system provider. 
• Represented a global specialist in joinery ACAD outsourcing in its agreement to sell substantially all of its assets to one of the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip makers. 
• Represented a publicly-listed semiconductor company in various US and cross-border mergers and acquisition transactions. 
• Represented a global electronics company in its agreement to acquire a company that maintains and licenses an Internet-accessible database containing information about the contents of audio compact discs and vinyl records.  
• Represented a leading Korean conglomerate and its US affiliates in various US and cross-border mergers and acquisition transactions. 
• Represented a global leader in virtualization solutions in its agreement to acquire an application performance management software company. 

• Represented major Chinese semiconductor company in its initial public offering. 
• Represented a leading animal health solutions company in its initial public offering. 
• Represented a major European investment bank in its underwriting of a US software company’s initial public offering. 

• Represented numerous venture capital and private equity firms (including those from US, Korea, Japan, China, UK, Canada and Oman) in strategic investments in technology companies. 
• Represented numerous technology companies in various private placement, equity financing and debt financing transactions. 
• Represented a major Korean Bank in various lending transactions.

• Represented a leading Korean automobile company and its affiliates in a software licensing and collaboration with a global internet company. 
• Represented a leading Japanese automobile company in various software, patent and other IP licensing and outsourcing transactions. 
• Represented a major European telecom company in its $3.5 billion outsourcing provisioning transaction with a major US IT company. 
• Represented a major US software company in its outsourcing provisioning transaction with an offshore service provider. 
• Represented an automobile company in outsourcing its call center to an off-shore service provider.

Awards

  

• Notable Practitioner, IFLR1000 (Delinian, 2023)

  

Publications/Activities

• Practical Law - Digital Business in South Korea: Overview (Co-author, Thomson Reuters, 2023)
• The Technology, Media and Telecommunications Review (Edition 13): Korea Chapter (Co-author, Law Business Research, 2022)
• The Media and Entertainment Law Review (Edition 4): Korea Chapter (Co-author, Law Business Research, 2022)
• Chambers Global Practice Guides - Gaming Law 2022: South Korea - Law & Practice (Co-author, Chambers and Partners, 2022)
• Chambers Global Practice Guides - Gaming Law 2021: South Korea - Law & Practice (Co-author, Chambers and Partners, 2021) 
• The Media and Entertainment Law Review (Edition 2, 3): Korea Chapter (Co-author, Law Business Research, 2020-2021) 
• The Corporate Governance Review (Edition 9-12): Korea Chapter (Co-author, Law Business Research, 2019-2022) 
• Chambers Global Practice Guide - Shareholders’ Rights and Shareholder Activism: Korea Chapter (Co-author, Chambers and Partners, 2019) 
• Chambers Global Practice Guide - TMT: Korea chapter - Law & Practice (Co-author, Chambers and Partners, 2019) 
• Speaker, “Entrepreneurial Ecosystem of Korea: New Trends in Acceleration and Internationalization,” part of a lecture series entitled “New Trends in Startup Company Acceleration: Toward the Rise of the Global Startup” (US-Asia Technology Management Center School of Engineering at Stanford University, 2014.12.)