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Stephanie H. Kim is a senior foreign attorney in the corporate practice at Shin & Kim. Stephanie has extensive experience representing international corporate clients in a wide range of commercial transactions, with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions. Stephanie’s practice also extends to venture capital investments, debt and equity offerings, securities regulations, corporate governance and general corporate advisement.

Stephanie accumulated experience through her corporate and M&A practices at leading American law firms such as Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and as a key member of the M&A practice at Shin & Kim, maintains close relationships with many domestic and overseas companies by acting as the lead advisor on major cross-border transactions of the firm.

Career

Shin & Kim LLC (2013-Present)

Contract Associate, Morrison & Foerster, LLP (via HireCounsel), San Francisco, CA, USA (2012)

Founder, Dekkori, San Francisco, CA, USA (2009-2012)

Associate, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto & San Francisco, CA, USA (2005-2008)

Summer Associate, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, CA, USA (2004)

Professional Memberships

California Bar

Publications

Lexology Getting The Deal Through – Venture Capital 2024: Korea Chapter (Co-authored)

Lexology Getting The Deal Through – Venture Capital 2023: Korea Chapter (Co-authored)

Education

Santa Clara University School of Law

J.D.

2005

University of California at Berkeley

B.A. in Political Science and Mass Communications

1999

Work Highlights

Represented Macquarie Korea Asset Management in its sale of United Terminal Korea, a liquid cargo terminal operator

Represented Mirae Asset Securities Co., Ltd and Mirae Asset Capital Markets (India) Pvt. Ltd in their acquisition of Sharekhan Limited, a Indian Securities firm

Represented KKR in its bid participation for the acquisition of certain interest in AirFirst

Represented Corstone Asia in its bid participation for the acquisition of certain interest in SK pharmteco

Represented Kakao Entertainment in its receipt of investment from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Singapore’s Pwarp Investment

Represented IMM Credit & Solutions Inc. in its investment in KT Cloud

Represented SKT in its bid participate for the acquisition of Medit

Represented SK E&S in its receipt of investment from KKR

Represented SK geocentric Co., Ltd. in the establishment of a JV with PureCycle Technologies, a U.S. waste plastics recycling company

Represented Netmarble and Netmarble F&C in their asset transfer of Ironthrone to Stillfront

Represented SK materials in its JV with US battery materials startup Group14 Technologies

Represented Kidari Studio and Lezhin Entertainment in their receipt of investment from ByteDance

Represented Baring PEA in its sales of Logen Co., Ltd.

Represented SK ecoplant Co., Ltd. in its acquisition of 100% of the Shares in Clenko Co., Ltd.

Represented Kakao Entertainment in its acquisition of Radish media, a USA-based mobile app

Represented Kakao in the merger between Kakao Page and Kakao M

Represented Kakao in its sale of shares in Kakao bank to TPG and Anchor Equity Partners

Represented Market Kurly in its receipt of investment from DST, Aspex and Sequoia

Represented Koscom in its acquisition of HSBC Fund Services Korea

Represented SK discovery, SK E&C, Huvis in their sale of shares in TSK Corporation

Represented KB Kookmin Card in its acquisition of shares in J Fintech, a Thailand-based consumer financing company

Represented Hansol Paper and Mirae Asset Daewoo Hunters Private Equity Fund in their sale of Hansol Denmark ApS (a Danish company) and R+S Group GmbH (a German company)

Represented SK ecoplant in its JV with Bloom Energy

Represented SKC in its sale of chemical business to Petrochemical Industries Company K.S.C.(PIC) with the deal value of USD 458 million

Represented Mirae Asset PE Consortium in its sale of International Coffee & Tea, LLC to Jollibee Foods Corporation and Viet Thai International Joint Stock Company

Represented SK Telecom in its e-sports JV with Comcast group

Represented Linde Group (Germany and USA) in its divestiture of Linde Korea (largest M&A transaction in the industrial gas sector in Korean history)

Represented SK E&S in the sale of its 49% stake in Paju Energy Services to Gen Plus B.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of Electricity Generating Plc of Thailand (EGCO)

Represented Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Holdings in its sale of Hacor, Inc. to Ourhome

Represented CJ CheilJedang Corporation in its sale of CJ HealthCare to Korea Kolmar Co., Ltd.

Represented Korea Investment & Securities Co., Ltd. in its acquisition of PT. Danpac Sekuritas, an Indonesian Brokerage firm

Represented TTI, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company, in its acquisition of CHANGNAM I.N.T.

Represented SK Holdings in its sale of shares in SK Encarsales.com to Carsales Holdings

Represented Kakao Corp. in its sale of shares in Kakao Pay to Alipay

Represented SKC in the acquisition of shares of SKC Haas from Dow Chemical

Represented DP World in its acquisition of shares in Pusan Newport Company

Represented GE in its sale of Hyundai Capital Services

Represented Apro Financial Group in its acquisition of Bank Dinar of Indonesia

Represented Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation in its sale of shares in Woori Bank

Represented Orion in its JVC establishment with Delfi, an Indonesian food company

Represented Chong Kun Dang Pharmaceutical in its joint venture with OTTO Pharmaceuticals of Indonesia

Represented ORIX CORPORATION in the sale of its shares in Hyundai Logistics

Represented Woori PE in its sale of UP Chemical to Shekoy Korea.

Represented CJ Group in its participation for the acquisition of Coway Co., Ltd.

Represented Apro Financial Group in its acquisition of Citi Capital Korea

Represented Affinity Equity Partners in its bid participation for the acquisition of Homeplus

Represented Erae CS in its acquisition of Korea Delphi Automotive Systems Corporation

Represented Dongwon Systems Corporation in its acquisition of Ardagh Metal Packaging American Samoa Inc.

Represented Hansol Paper in its acquisition of Telrol B.V., the Netherlands company

Represented Bain Capital in its bid participation for the acquisition of ADT Caps

Represented Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation in its sale of Kyongnam Bank and Kwangju Bank

Represented Mirae Asset Financial Group, in its acquisition of (together with Advent International Corporation, CDIB Capital) International Coffee & Tea (Coffee Bean)

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Stephanie Kim is considered an experienced lawyer when it comes to cross-border acquisition and investment transactions. She regularly works with Korean and foreign entities in the financial services and TMT sectors.

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