Foreign Attorney
Jun Yeop KIM
Mergers & Acquisitions
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Jun Yeop (Jun) Kim is a Foreign Attorney in the Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Group of Lee & Ko.
Mr. Kim advises Korean and global clients, including many of the largest Korean conglomerates and private equity firms, on cross-border M&A transactions, investments, strategic alliances and joint ventures.
Prior to joining Lee & Ko, Mr. Kim was an associate in the mergers and acquisitions groups of two leading U.S. law firms in New York and Seoul.
Mr. Kim advises Korean and global clients, including many of the largest Korean conglomerates and private equity firms, on cross-border M&A transactions, investments, strategic alliances and joint ventures.
Prior to joining Lee & Ko, Mr. Kim was an associate in the mergers and acquisitions groups of two leading U.S. law firms in New York and Seoul.
Representative Cases
- CJ CheilJedang Corporation in its $854 million pending sale of its global feed and livestock business across Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia, and Korea to Royal De Heus.
- Air Liquide S.A. in its $3.3 billion pending acquisition of DIG Airgas Co., Ltd. from Macquarie Asset Management
- SKC Co., Ltd. in its $110 million sale of a minority stake in its Malaysian subsidiary, SK Nexilis Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., to Toyota Tsusho Corporation
- LG Energy Solution, Ltd. in its $2.08 billion acquisition of General Motors’ stake in Michigan battery plant
- SK Square Co., Ltd. and SK Telecom Innovation Fund, L.P. in their combined $250 million sale of their controlling interest in id Quantique SA to IonQ, Inc.
- Bear Robotics, Inc. in its $133 million acquisition of the robot business conducted by LG Electronics Inc.’s Robots Business Division
- Accton Technology Corporation, a Taiwanese electronics company, in its acquisition of a majority stake in InLC Technology Inc., a Korean telecommunications company
- EcoPro Co., Ltd. and its affiliate, EcoPro Materials Co., Ltd., in their $37 million acquisition of a combined 29% stake in PT. Green Eco Nickel, an Indonesian mineral refining company, from GEM Hong Kong International Co., Ltd.
- Sibelco Group in the sale of its spherical silica and spherical alumina businesses in Korea to Momentive Technologies
- Nuoyan Capital in its $834 million pending acquisition of polarizing film business from Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
- SKC Co., Ltd. in its establishment of a joint venture in Vietnam with An Phat Holdings
- KDB Investment in its $100 million investment in THINK Surgical, Inc., a California-based medical device company
- Green Cross in its $73 million acquisition of BioCentriq, Inc., a New Jersey-based biopharma company, from New Jersey Innovation Institute, Inc., a New Jersey non-profit corporation
- Lotte Corporation in its $160 million acquisition of biologics assets in Syracuse, New York, from Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and its establishment of Lotte Biologics
- Hanmi Pharmaceutical in its $20 million equity investment in Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, a U.S. biopharmaceutical company
- LG Chem, Ltd. and its battery affiliate, LG Energy Solution, Ltd., in their $51 million acquisition of a combined 2.6% stake in Li-Cycle Holdings Corp., a Canadian battery recycling company
- BGF Retail Co., Ltd. in its $10 million Series C investment in Standard Cognition, a U.S. software development company
- LG Energy Solution, Ltd. in its acquisition of NEC Energy Solutions, a U.S. energy storage solutions company, from NEC Corporation based in Japan
- Brite Energy Partners, a Korean solar development and investment company, in its initial and subsequent sales of equity stakes to BlackRock Real Assets, an affiliate of BlackRock
- Brentwood Associates in its acquisition of Parchment Inc. and related internal restructuring
- General Electric Company in the further restructuring of its relationship with and future separation from Baker Hughes, a GE Company (in particular, GE Digital LLC’s acquisition of certain assets from Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC)
- Thomson Reuters Corporation in its acquisition of Capital Confirmation, Inc.
- Dow Inc. in its separation and spin-off from DowDuPont
- SS&C Technologies Inc. in its $1.45 billion acquisition of Eze Software
- CVS Health Corporation in its $69 billion acquisition of Aetna Inc.
Education
| 2017 | Harvard Law School – J.D. |
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| 2013 | University of Toronto – B.A. in Economics and International Relations |
Work Experience
| 2023-present | Lee & Ko |
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| 2020-2023 | White & Case LLP, Seoul |
| 2017-2020 | Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York |
Languages
| Korean and English |
