Kim, Michelle

Michelle Kim

Associate

michelle.k.kim@lw.com
    Kim, Michelle

    Michelle Kim

    Associate

    michelle.k.kim@lw.com

    Profile

    Michelle Kim is a Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity associate in the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins.

    Michelle advises publicly and privately held companies, as well as private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, on complex cross-border and domestic transactions, including:

    • Mergers and acquisitions
    • Take-private transactions
    • Leveraged buyouts
    • Carve-out transactions
    • Strategic investments
    • Joint ventures

    Michelle earned her JD from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Prior to law school, Michelle earned her AB from Princeton University, an MA from Yale Divinity School, and worked as a teacher.

    Michelle maintains an active pro bono practice, frequently appearing in court as a guardian ad litem in child welfare cases in partnership with Chicago Volunteer Legal Services. Michelle currently serves as local office leader of the firm’s Asian & Middle Eastern Lawyers Group.

    Experience

    Michelle’s representative experience includes advising:

    • Bunge Global SA (NYSE: BG) on its acquisition of Viterra Limited to form a combined agribusiness solutions company at an enterprise value of approximately US$34 billion
    • Eastdil Secured, a global real estate investment bank, on its US$1.112 billion acquisition by Savills
    • Informatica Inc., a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, on its US$8 billion take-private acquisition by Salesforce
    • Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) on its strategic acquisitions of AI and technology companies
    • Mubadala Capital on its take-private acquisition of CI Financial Corp., a Canada-based asset manager, and Corient, its US wealth management arm
    • New Relic, a software analytics company, on its US$6.5 billion take-private acquisition by Francisco Partners and TPG
    • Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) on its:
      • Stock-for-stock acquisition of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. to form a combined advertising company at an enterprise value of approximately US$31 billion
      • US$835 million acquisition of Flywheel Digital, the digital commerce business of Ascential
    • Printful on its merger with Printify to form FYUL, a print-on-demand platform
    • SPIE SA (EPA: SPIE) on its strategic acquisitions of industrial services providers
    • A global transportation company on its carve-out sale of a truck manufacturing plant
    • A joint venture between the Ardonagh Group and Amynta Group (Alpha AA JV) on its sale of AccuRisk Solutions to Ryan Specialty

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • Illinois

    Education

    • JD, Northwestern University School of Law
      cum laude
    • MA, Yale University
    • AB, Princeton University

    Languages Spoken

    • English
    • Korean

    Practices

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