Senior Foreign Attorney
Ki Wook KANG
Corporate Governance
Expertise
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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.
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.
Work Experience
| 2016-Present | Lee & Ko |
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| 2011-2016 | Samsung Electronics |
| 2007-2011 | Yulchon, Attorneys at Law |
| 2006-2007 | Wong Fleming PC |
Languages
| Korean and English |
Awards and Recognitions
| 2023 | Selected as “Highly Regarded” (M&A) by IFLR1000 |
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| 2023 | Cross-border M&A Deal of the Year (US$2 Billion+), The Asia Legal Awards |
| 2021 - 2023 | Stand-out Lawyers, Thomson Reuters |
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)
