Michelle Kim

Associate

Chicago
michelle.k.kim@lw.com
+1.312.777.7078

PRACTICES

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity

BAR QUALIFICATIONS

  • Illinois

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