Donna Kim is a corporate associate in the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins.

Donna represents public and private companies on a wide range of domestic and cross-border matters including public and private mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, strategic transactions and planning, controlling and minority investments, corporate restructurings and general corporate matters.

She advises clients across various industries, including technology, semiconductor, healthcare and life sciences, and retail and consumer products.

Donna serves as a member of the firm’s Asian & Middle Eastern Lawyers Group.

Donna's experience includes representing:

  • Amazon on its investment in Diamond Sports Group
  • Airtable in its strategic acquisitions
  • Relievant MedSystems in its sale to Boston Scientific involving upfront payment of US$850 million, and contingent payments
  • Pionyr Immunotherapeutics in its US$43 million sale to Ikena Oncology
  • Cadence Design Systems in its acquisition of Rambus SerDes and memory interface PHY IP business from Rambus
  • 10x Genomics in its strategic acquisition
  • Reddit in various strategic acquisitions
  • Tower Semiconductor in its terminated US$5.9 billion sale to Intel
  • Area 1 Security in its US$162 million sale to CloudFlare
  • Plaid in its acquisition of BlockScore (dba Cognito)
  • Bioventus in its US$518 million acquisition of Misonix
  • BancorpSouth Bank in its merger of equals with Cadence Bancorporation*
  • Tiffany & Co. in its approximately US$16 billion sale to LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton*
  • L3Harris Technologies in its US$1.05 billion sale of its Military Training business to CAE (Canada)*
  • Goldman Sachs in its investment in and later acquisition of HUMAN (formerly known as White Ops)*
  • CIT Group in its acquisition of Mutual of Omaha Bank*
  • Teck Resources (Canada) in its project financing of the Quebrada Blanca Phase 2 copper project in Chile*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Bar Qualification

  • California
  • New York

Education

  • JD, Stanford Law School
  • BA, University of California, Berkeley

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Korean