Michelle Kim
Associate
Chicago
michelle.k.kim@lw.com
+1.312.777.7078
PRACTICES
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity
INDUSTRIES
EDUCATION
- JD, Northwestern University School of Law,
cum laude - MA, Yale University,
- AB, Princeton University,
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
- English
- Korean
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.
EXPERIENCE
Michelle’s representative experience includes advising:
- Bunge Global SA (NYSE: BG) in its pending US$30+ billion cross-border acquisition of Viterra Limited
- New Relic in its US$6.5 billion take-private acquisition by Francisco Partners and TPG
- Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) in its US$835 million acquisition of Flywheel Digital, the digital commerce business of Ascential
- Printful in its merger with Printify
- Mubadala Capital in its pending take-private acquisition of CI Financial Corp. (TSE: CIX), including Corient, its US wealth management arm
- Alpha AA JV (a joint venture between the Ardonagh Group and Amynta Group) in its sale of AccuRisk Solutions to Ryan Specialty
- A public REIT in its acquisition of rental property management services portfolio