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Senior Foreign Attorney

Ki Wook KANG

Corporate Governance

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Ki Wook Kang is a Senior Foreign Attorney in the Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Group of Lee & Ko. His main practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, outbound investments, joint ventures, foreign investments, corporate governance, and general corporate.

Prior to Lee & Ko, Mr. Kang had gained extensive experience in various types of cross-border corporate and business transactions by practicing both as in-house counsel and outside counsel. He worked at Samsung Electronics as M&A lawyer focusing on Samsung Group's major M&A and corporate transactions. He also had substantial experience in representing major corporations, banks, and private equity funds as an associate of a Korean law firm and a US law firm.
Representative Cases
LG Energy Solution’s acquisition of Novonix’s convertible bonds
Acquisition of Delivery Hero Korea (Delivery App “Yogiyo”) by Permira Fund together with Affinity and GS Retail
E-Mart's acquisition of shares in Starbucks Korea
Carlyle Group's acquisition of Kakao Mobility
Kakao Entertainment's acquisition of Tapas Media
SK Innovation's sale of minority interests in SK Lubricants to IMM
Hyundai Heavy Industries' sale of equity interest in Hyundai Global Service to KKR
SK Engineering & Construction's acquisition of 100% stake in EMC Holdings
Kakao Page's equity investment in Radish Media Inc.
Sale of 100% shares in Lotte Chemical UK Ltd. by Lotte Chemical Corporation to Alpek Group
Sale of LG-Hitachi Water Solutions and HiEntech by LG Electronics
Elkem ASA's acquisition of Basel Chemie
Carlyle's sale of ADT Caps, a Korean security service provider
LG Chem's acquisition of DuPont's soluble OLED business
Anbang Insurance Group's sale of Tongyang Asset Management and ABL Global Asset Management to Woori Financial Group
LG Chem's acquisition of 100% of the equity interest in Uniseal Inc., a Michigan company manufacturing automobile and industrial sealants
CJ Logistics Corporation's acquisition of equity interest in Darcl Logistics Limited (Indian Company)
The Dow Chemical's sale of its equity interest in a joint venture with SKC
LG Hausys' acquisition of majority equity interest of c2i (Slovak company)
Samsung Electronics' and its affiliates' sale of 32% of the equity interest in Samsung Fine Chemicals to Lotte Chemical, and Samsung SDI's sale of its Chemical Business to Lotte Chemical.
Samsung SDI's acquisition of 100% of the equity interest in Magna Steyr OG, an Austrian company manufacturing automotive battery systems.
Samsung Electronics' and its affiliates' sale of (i) 32% of the equity interest in Samsung Techwin to Hanwha Corp and (ii) 58% of the equity interest in Samsung General Chemicals to Hanwha Energy Corp
Samsung Electronics' acquisition of 100% of the equity interest in Quietside LLC, a California company distributing HVAC products in the United States and Canada.
Samsung Fine Chemicals and Samsung Electronics in their respective investments in SunEdison Semiconductor's initial public offering through private placement.
Samsung Fine Chemicals and Samsung Electronics in their respective investments in SunEdison Semiconductor's initial public offering through private placement.
Samsung Electronics' equity investment in Sharp Corporation and Wacom Co., Ltd. (Japanese public company) respectively.
Samsung Electronics' acquisition of the mobile business division of CSR plc. (a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange).
Samsung Electronics' acquisition of Nanoradio (Swedish company).
Samsung Electronics' sale of the HDD business division of Samsung Electronics to Seagate Technologies plc.
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Education
2006 University of Minnesota Law School - J.D.
1996 Yonsei University - B.B.A.
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Work Experience
2016-Present Lee & Ko
2011-2016 Samsung Electronics
2007-2011 Yulchon, Attorneys at Law
2006-2007 Wong Fleming PC
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Admissions
2007 Admitted to bar, New York
2006 Admitted to bar, New Jersey
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Languages
Korean and English
Awards and Recognitions
2023 Selected as “Highly Regarded” (M&A) by IFLR1000
2023 Cross-border M&A Deal of the Year (US$2 Billion+), The Asia Legal Awards
2021 - 2023 Stand-out Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
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Publications / Presentations / ETC
Chambers Global Practice Guides - Corporate M&A 2020, 2021 & 2022: South Korea - Law and Practice section, Trends and Developments section (Co-author, 2020 – 2022, Chambers & Partners)
Lee & Ko 2020 M&A Forum – "Closing Certainty in M&A" (Co-speaker, 2020)
Chambers Global Practice Guides- Corporate Governance 2019: South Korea – Law & Practice section (Co-author, 2019, Chambers & Partners)
Global Leaders Forum 2019 (London) – Corporate Governance and M&A (Co-speaker, 2019)
Lee & Ko 2017 M&A Forum – “Determination of Purchase Price in M&A” (Co-speaker, 2017)
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