Hae Sung Jeong

Practice Areas

Hae Sung’s area of practice is M&A, private equity as well as major corporate litigations involving leveraged buy-outs and corporate governance matters.

He worked as a full-time visiting lawyer at GS Energy, a diversified holding company of GS Group, one of the biggest Korean conglomerates, advising on its numerous acquisitions and divestitures. He also worked at New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP as a Visiting Lawyer.

He has represented many international and domestic financial investors, as well as Korean conglomerates in a wide range of M&A transactions and regulatory matters.

Career

Visiting Lawyer, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP New York Office (2016-2017)

Visiting Lawyer, GS Energy (2014)

Shin & Kim LLC (2009-Present)

Judge Advocate, Republic of Korea Army (2006-2009).

Judicial Research & Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (2004-2006)

Professional Memberships

Korean Bar

Publications

Practical Law – Cross-border Private Company Acquisitions – Korea chapter (Co-author, Thomson Reuters, 2017, 2018, 2019)

Practical Law – Cross-border Joint-Ventures – Korea chapter (Co-author, Thomson Reuters, 2017, 2018, 2019)

Work Highlights

EQT PE in its acquisition of Remember

MBK Partners and Youngpoong's tender offer for Korea Zinc

LG Electronics' investment in and acquisition of Bear Robotics

Establishment of a joint venture between Alibaba and Gmarket

SK E&S(SK Innovation) in its power generation subsidiary’s capital raise from Meritz, capital raise from KKR, and sale of stake in Paju Energy Service

Warburg Pincus' acquisition of Qube Industrial

MBK Partners' acquisition of Nexflex

Genesis PE's sale of waste management companies to EQT PE

Chubb in its acquisition of LINA Life Insurance of Korea

Q Capital PE’s acquisition of Chorokbaem Media

GS Energy in its acquisition of GNTEL, GS Connect, ChargeEV, Incheon Total Energy

Well to Sea PE’s acquisition of SI Flex, GSC, Shinil Global, and Wellang, and sale of Aju Capital (now Woori Financial Capital) and HSD Engine

GIC in its investment in Starbucks Korea

Baring PE (now EQT)’s investment in and exit from Shinhan Financial Group

JKL PE's sale of Panaxetech, and investment in Thira-Utech, Sama Aluminium, and DSEV

GIG (Macquarie)’s fundraising for wind projects from Total and SK ecoplant

Danggeun Market’s Capital Raise from foreign financial investors

Heimdall PE’s equity investment in a subsidiary of Hanwha Solutions and in Foosung Global

Sequoia and GIC in their investment in Woowa Brothers

Sequoia, DST and Aspex in their investment in Kurly

Sale of a controlling stake in Koramco REITs Management and Trust

Blackstone PE in its investment in Simone

Hahn & Co. in its acquisition of POSFINE

S1 in its acquisition of real estate management service business from Samsung Everland

Education

Languages Spoken

Korean, English