Jeanne Song

Jeanne Song

Associate
Baker & McKenzie LLP

Biography

Jeanne Song is an associate in Baker McKenzie’s Transactional Group in the Firm’s Chicago office. Jeanne has been with the Firm since she first joined as a summer associate in 2018. Jeanne is the Chicago office chair of Baker Asian Legal Network and a member of the Chicago Associates Committee.

Practice Focus

Jeanne advises private-equity funds and multinational companies on global and domestic mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings and pre- and post-transaction integrations.

Representative Legal Matters

  • Advised One Equity Partners and its portfolio company, AMECO, in the acquisition of F&M Mafco.
  • Advised Arxada, a portfolio company of Bain Capital and Cinven, in the acquisition of Enviro Tech Chemical.
  • Advised Arxada, a portfolio company of Bain Capital and Cinven, in the divestiture of hydrazine business.
  • Advised Edelman Financial Engines, a leading independent financial planning and investment management firm, in the acquisition of Align Wealth Management.
  • Advised Spirax-Sarco Engineering, a thermal energy management and niche pumping specialist, in the acquisition of Durex International Corporation.
  • Advised Hassana Investment Company in its Series D investment in a fintech company.
  • Advised a US-based public pharmaceutical company in its divestiture of global informatics business.
  • Advised a US-based medical devices company in its 40-country post-acquisition integration.
  • Advised a US-based data and market measurement company in its spin-off of data and analytics branch.

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • Chicago Bar Association
  • National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
  • Korean American Bar Association of Chicago

Admissions

  • Illinois~United States (2019)

Education

  • Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law (JD) (2019)
  • Yonsei University (Bachelor of Business Administration) (2016)
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (Exchange Student Program) (2014)

Languages

  • English
  • Korean