Yoseph Choi is a member of the corporate finance team focusing on capital market transactions, with particular experience in US securities law.

Mr. Choi has extensive experience representing companies in a variety of industries, investment banks, and other market participants on a wide range of public and private cross-border transactions, both with and without a US nexus, including initial public offerings, rights offerings, private placements, bond offerings, and tender and exchange offerings.

Mr. Choi has also advised numerous international companies on US securities law matters on an ongoing basis.

Prior to joining the firm as counsel in 2020, Mr. Choi was an associate at major US and German law firms.

Mr. Choi is a member of the Frankfurt Bar Association.

Mr. Choi’s experience includes advising: 

  • CVC on the deSPAC merger of ironSource and Thoma Bravo Advantage
  • TUI Cruises GmbH on its €300 million bond offering
  • Bank consortium on several capital increases by way of a rights offering by TUI AG amounting to €1.6 billion
  •  Deutsche Bank AG on its omnibus SEC registration statement on Form F-3 and its ongoing Exchange Act reporting obligations*
  • Deutsche Bank AG on its multiple SEC-registered rights offerings*
  • Deutsche Bank AG on its multiple SEC-registered offerings of additional tier 1 securities and subordinated tier 2 notes*
  • Deutsche Bank AG on its multiple tender and exchange offers for its SEC-registered notes*
  • Commerzbank AG on its capital measures to repay the German government's bailout participations*
  • Commerzbank AG on the establishment of its USD MTN program and offerings thereunder*
  • Deutsche Telekom AG on multiple benchmark issuances under its USD debt platform*
  • Bank consortium on the establishment of Volkswagen AG's USD debt platform and multiple benchmark issuances thereunder*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Bar Qualification

  • New York

Education

  • JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 2004
  • AB in English Language and Literature, Harvard College, 1994

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • German
  • Italian
  • French