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, a MA from Yale University, and worked as a teacher.

Michelle maintains an active pro bono practice and is currently a local office leader of the firm’s Asian & Middle Eastern Lawyers Group.

Michelle’s representative experience includes advising:

  • Bunge Global SA (NYSE: BG) on its acquisition of Viterra Limited to form a combined 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 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 joint venture between the Ardonagh Group and Amynta Group (Alpha AA JV) on its sale of AccuRisk Solutions to Ryan Specialty

Bar Qualification

  • Illinois

Education

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

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Korean