
Sye Myung KimSye MyungKim
Associate, Capital Markets
Sye Myung Kim is an associate in the Corporate Department of Paul Hastings and is based in the Seoul office. Her practice focuses on capital markets and M&A matters. She regularly advises corporations, financial institutions and governmental entities in a wide variety of capital markets transactions, including registered and unregistered offerings of equity, debt and hybrid securities, as well as domestic and cross-border M&A transactions. She has acted for Korean and multinational clients across the consumer, technology, finance and energy industries.
Columbia Law School, J.D., 2016
Georgetown University, B.A., 2012
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 leading provider of custom AI semiconductor (ASIC) design, in connection with its US$87.9 million (KRW 129.6 billion) global offering and listing on the KRX KOSDAQ Market of the Korea Exchange. Samsung Securities and UBS acted as joint global coordinators and joint bookrunners.
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