Mr. Kihoon Park is a partner at Shin & Kim, mainly practicing in the areas of M&A.

M&A and Investments

• Advised Goodai Global on raising investment through convertible bonds from its financial investors (valued at KRW 800 billion)
• Advised London Bagel Museum on its sale of the business
• Advised Pearl Investment/PSA on the sale of Star Vision shares
• Advised on the sale of Wemakeprice and the acquisition of new shares in Qoo10
• Advised Kakao and Kakao Entertainment on the acquisition of controlling interest in SM Entertainment
• Advised Kakao Entertainment on securing investment from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Singapore's Government Investment Corporation (GIC) (valued at KRW 1.2 trillion)
• Advised Naver Financial on the acquisition of its Naver Real Estate service business
• Advised 42dot on the sale of its business to Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors
• Advised StoneBridge Capital on the acquisition of AJ Total's refrigerated and frozen warehouse business
• Advised IMM Investment on investment in Zigbang
• Advised Kidari Studio-Lezhin Entertainment on securing investment from Bytedance
• Advised 42dot on the series A funding (“the largest Series A funding to date”)
• Advised SK Plasma on raising investment
• Advised Chubb on the acquisition of Lina Life Insurance
• Advised Singapore's GIC on its equity investment in Starbucks Korea
• Advised Cactus PE and KDB PE on the investment in a Singaporean logistics company
• Advised IMM and KDB PE on the recapitalization of a waste management company, EMK
• Advised Krafton on the acquisition of an interactive content production company, Thinkflow
• Advised VoyagerX on raising investment from SoftBank Ventures, Altos Ventures, and Yellow Dog
• Advised IMM PE on the sale of Taihan Cable & Solution
• Advised SoftBank Ventures on the investment in an online platform, Rapport Labs
• Advised Dell Inc. on the sale of its RSA Security business
• Advised Baring Private Equity Asia on the sale of Logen Express

Mergers, Spin-offs, JV Formation, etc.

• Advised Musinsa and ANTA on the establishment of a joint venture in China
• Advised Naver Cloud on the establishment of Baecom Co., Ltd., a joint venture with Woongjin Thinkbig for an academy-type cloud platform
• Advised on the merger between Kakao and Kakao Commerce
• Advised on the spin-off and merger of the Style Business Division of Kakao Commerce Co., Ltd. with Croquis.com Co., Ltd.
• Advised Dongguk Holdings on the comprehensive organizational restructuring for its transition to a holding company