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 corporate 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
    • Strategic investments
    • Joint ventures

    Michelle earned her JD from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where she was a senior editor for the Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business and served as the Co-President of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association.

    Michelle currently serves as a local office leader of the firm’s Asian & Middle Eastern Lawyers Group.

    Experience

    Michelle’s representative experience includes, among others, advising:

    • Bunge Global SA (NYSE: BG) on its US$30+ billion cross-border acquisition of Viterra Limited
    • Eastdil Secured on its pending US$1.112 billion acquisition by Savills
    • Informatica Inc. on its US$8 billion take-private acquisition by Salesforce
    • Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) on its strategic acquisition of technology companies
    • Mubadala Capital on its take-private acquisition of CI Financial Corp., including Corient, its US wealth management arm
    • New Relic 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.
      • US$835 million acquisition of Flywheel Digital, the digital commerce business of Ascential 
    • Printful on its merger with Printify
    • A joint venture between the Ardonagh Group and Amynta Group (Alpha AA JV) on its sale of AccuRisk Solutions to Ryan Specialty
    • A public REIT on its acquisition of rental property management services portfolio

    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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