Joongwon Park

Joongwon Park is Counsel in the Corporate Department at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s Hong Kong office. He started his career in the Firm’s New York office and relocated to Hong Kong, after also having spent several years in Seoul, giving him a distinctive U.S. – APAC cross-border perspective. He has extensive capital markets and mergers and acquisitions experience across a broad scope of industries and geographies, with a particular focus on Korea related and Asia focused transactions. His capital markets experience includes representing issuers and investment banks on registered and unregistered debt and equity securities offerings such as IPOs, Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings and private placements. His experience in mergers and acquisitions includes complex buyouts and minority investments, representing private equity and strategic clients in various acquisitions and investments in Korea, Southeast Asia, China, Europe and the United States.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (2014-Present); Administrative Editor, Georgetown Law Journal (2012-2014)

New York State Bar Association

Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., cum laude, 2014); Yonsei University (LL.B., 2010)