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Iksoo Kim

Partner, Corporate

iksookim@paulhastings.com

Iksoo Kim is a partner in the Corporate Department of Paul Hastings and the co-chair of the firm’s Seoul office.

Iksoo regularly represents issuers and underwriters in a wide variety of capital markets transactions, including registered and unregistered offerings of equity, debt and hybrid securities by U.S. and Korean corporations, banks and governmental entities. He also has broad experience representing strategic and private equity clients in a number of domestic and cross-border M&A transactions.

Iksoo was formerly an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and is a CFA charter holder.

EDUCATION de

Columbia Law School, J.D., 2008

The London School of Economics and Political Science, M.Sc., 2001

Seoul National University, B.A., 2000

REPRESENTATIONS de

Initial Public Offerings
  • BofA Securities, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan as underwriters in connection with US$26.5 billion public offering and American Depositary Shares (ADSs) listing of SK Hynix, one of the world’s leading memory semiconductor companies engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of advanced memory semiconductors, on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. This is the largest-ever U.S. IPO by an Asia issuer. It is also the largest ADS offering in history and one of the largest global equity offerings on record.

  • SemiFive Inc., a global AI and system semiconductor design company, in connection with its $87.9 million (KRW 129.6 billion) global offering and listing on the Korea Exchange. Samsung Securities and UBS acted as joint global coordinators and joint bookrunners.

RECOGNITION de

  • Capital Markets: International Firms

    Chambers Asia-Pacific

  • Corporate/M&A: International Firms

    Chambers Asia-Pacific

ASSOCIATIONS de

  • Member, CFA Institute

  • Foreign Legal Consultant, Republic of Korea