Lee & Ko served as the Korean legal counsel for Carlyle Group (“Carlyle”) and advised on its sale of three security service companies including ADT Caps, the second largest security services provider in Korea, to the consortium comprised of SK Telecom and Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets for KRW 2,970 billion (USD 2.76 billion). The share purchase agreement was successfully singed on May 8, 2018.
As the largest M&A transaction in Korea in 2018, the transaction also involved a set of complex pre-signing restructurings including merger and merger after divestiture amongst the sold companies. Lee & Ko contributed to the successful signing of the share purchase agreement by finding the optimum deal structure at the initial stage of the transaction and providing timely and adequate legal advice in connection to various legal issues that arose in the course of the transaction.
Lee & Ko also advised Carlyle when it acquired ADT Caps and its subsidiaries in 2014
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