Shin & Kim was presented the “Korea Deal of the Year” Award by Asian Legal Business magazine for our advisory role in the initial public offering of Samsung Life Insurance at the 2011 ALB Law Awards ceremony held in Hong Kong on September 9, 2011.

The ALB Law Awards is one of the most prestigious legal awards in Asia, recognizing the excellence and outstanding achievements of leading law firms and in-house legal teams, as well as top deals and deal-makers in Asia each year.  This year’s “Korea Deal of the Year” Award recognizes Shin & Kim’s role in the IPO of Samsung Life Insurance, which was completed in May last year.  The Samsung Life IPO, priced at approximately KRW 5 trillion, is the largest IPO ever made by a Korean company.

Shin & Kim has garnered much attention from the Asian legal community for its involvement in all of the initial public offerings that have been made by Korean life insurance companies to date, including the Tong Yang Life IPO, the first ever IPO by a Korean life insurance company (October 2009), the Korea Life IPO, which attracted public funds of more than KRW 4 billion (March 2010), and the Samsung Life IPO, the largest ever IPO by a Korean company (May 2010).

Shin & Kim was also awarded IFLR’s 2005 “Asian Equity Deal of the Year” Award for the LG Philips LCD dual listing in Korea and New York, and the 2008 “Asian Equity Deal of the Year” Award for the Samsung Card IPO.

In recent years, Shin & Kim is the only Korean law firm that has been included in the upper rankings for Global Equity IPO Manager Advisers in the Global Legal Adviser League Table published by Bloomberg.  In the first quarter of 2010, the firm was ranked top in the world in the Global Equity IPO Manager Advisers category, based on total number of transactions.