Michelle Kim

michelle.k.kim@lw.com

+1.312.777.7078

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

Qualifications

Bar Qualification

Illinois

Education

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

Languages Spoken

English
Korean

Practices

November 6, 2024 Our Work

Latham & Watkins Advises Printful in Merger With Printify

Multidisciplinary team represents the production-on-demand technology platform in the transaction.

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October 30, 2023 Our Work

Latham & Watkins Represents Omnicom in Acquisition of Digital Commerce Business Flywheel

Firm represents the global marketing and corporate communications company in the transaction.

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July 31, 2023 Our Work

Latham & Watkins Advises New Relic in US$6.5 Billion Acquisition by Francisco Partners and TPG

Multidisciplinary team represents the all-in-one observability platform for engineers in take-private transaction.