Joongwon Park

Joongwon Park is Counsel (New York) in the Corporate Department of  Simpson Thacher’s Hong Kong office. With a diverse corporate practice that focuses on M&A and capital markets, Joongwon provides clients with advice on complex buyouts and minority investments, IPOs, Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings and private placements. Joongwon also practiced in the Firm’s New York office and spent several years in Seoul.

Joongwon’s recent representative matters include advising:

• KKR in multiple transactions, including –
  • Purchase of redeemable convertible preferred shares issued by SK E&S for US$2 billion and subsequent purchase of additional redeemable convertible preferred shares issued by SK E&S
  • Purchase of exchangeable bonds issued by Vingroup exchangeable for ordinary shares of VinFast
  • Acquisition of ESG Group and minority interest in TSK Corp. and subsequent merger to form ECORBIT
  • Acquisition of copper foil and flexible copper clad laminate business of LS Automotive and sale of equity stake in KCF Technologies
  • Multiple acquisitions and dispositions of real estate assets in Korea
• SK Group in multiple transactions, including –
  • Investments in The Center for Breakthrough Medicines, Plug Power, Yposkesi, Mackage and Alice + Olivia and acquisition of AMPAC Fine Chemicals
• Underwriters in the US$11 billion IPO of LG Energy Solution on the Korea Stock Exchange, which is the largest ever public offering in South Korea
• SK Biopharmaceuticals in its US$800.1 million IPO on the Korea Stock Exchange, which was the largest IPO of the year
• Underwriters in the US$360 million IPO of Lotte REIT on the Korea Stock Exchange
• Generation Asia I Acquisition Limited in its US$219.3 million IPO
• Multiple sovereign debt offerings by The Republic of Korea and debt offerings by investment grade companies in Korea, including Korea Electric Power Corporation, Shinhan Financial Group, Shinhan Bank, Korea Expressway, Korea Gas, Korea Land & Housing, NongHyup Bank and Woori Card
• Dealers in multiple issuances of notes by Shinhan Bank under its US$8 billion Global Medium Term Note program, by Shinhan Financial Group under its US$5 billion Global Medium Term Note program and by Korea Electric Power Corporation under its US$8 billion Global Medium Term Note program
• Underwriters in the US$1.97 billion IPO of Samsung BioLogics on the Korea Stock Exchange
• Doosan Bobcat in its US$783 million IPO on the Korea Stock Exchange

Joongwon graduated from Yonsei University and received his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was Administrative Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. He is fluent in Korean and he is admitted to practice in New York.