Daehoon Koo is a partner in the Corporate and M&A Practice Group. His primary practice areas include Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Restructuring, Corporate Governance, Private Equity and Foreign Investment.

Mr. Koo has wide range of experience in most types of M&A and restructuring transactions including not only typical types of transactions such as stock or asset deals, joint ventures, mergers, spin-offs and any combination thereof but also relatively rare types of transactions such as comprehensive share swaps, establishing holding companies, tender offers, P&As, in-kind contributions, etc.

Mr. Koo has rich experience in due diligences and M&A transactions in many different type of industries including semiconductor, electric vehicle parts, mobility, distribution, logistics, port management, IT, ICT, bio, F&B, H&B industry and he also has been involved in M&A transactions of most types of financial institutions including financial holding companies, commercial banks, insurance companies, securities and investment companies, asset management companies, mutual savings banks and lending businesses.

He was ranked No. 1 rising star among 10 years' or less experienced M&A lawyers by the Korea Economic Daily in 2013 and named in Asian Legal Business' 40 under 40 for 2018 and selected as Korea Law Awards 2024 - Dealmaker of the Year. After completing LL.M. in USC Gould School of Law (2013-2014), he was also admitted to the California bar (2014), and worked at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP as a Visiting Lawyer (2014/2015). Prior to joining Lee & Ko in 2009, Mr. Koo served the military for 3 years as a Military Prosecutor and Procurement Contract Reviewer of the Naval Logistics Command (2006/2007), the Staff Judge Advocate of the 2nd Fleet Command (2007/2008) and a Litigator representing the Korean Government, the Ministry of National Defense and the Defense Minister in civil and administrative cases related to Korean Navy (2008).