Seonho Kim
Biography
Mr. Seonho Kim is one of the prominent partners of the Firm’s Corporate/M&A group, M&A, foreign investment and antitrust practices as one of the partners advising various corporate clients and is advising clients in labor and compliance matters as well.
Mr. Kim has handled various buy-out transactions, consolidation of public companies, cross-border investments, joint ventures and antitrust disputes during his professional career. For the recent few years, he has focused on mid-cap private equity investment and complex shareholder dispute.
Representative Legal Matters
- Represented SAE-A Trading in its acquisition of Tegra LLC.
- Represented Enovix Corporation in its acquisition of Routejade Inc.
- Represented Mason Capital Co., Ltd. in its acquisition of Nara Credit Service Co., Ltd. (a.k.a., Daol Credit Service).
- Represented Legend Capital fund in its investment in Saige Research Co., Ltd.
- Represented Smilegate Holdings Co.Ltd. in its investment in Quantit Co., Ltd.
- Represented Mirae Asset Securities Co., Ltd. in its investment in QRT Co., Ltd.
- Represented Mirae Asset Capital funds in its multiple outbound investments.
- Represented GS Construction and Xi S&D in connection with their share acquisitions of S&I Construction.
- Represented SK Telecom in its equity issuance of T Map Mobility Co., Ltd. to private equity investors.
- Represented KH Investment in connection with its acquisition of the stakes in STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Korea Bar Association
Admissions
- Korea (2006)
Education
- Seoul National University (LL.B.) (2004)
Languages
- English
- Korean
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