Regina Jinseo Kim

Regina’s experience includes advising:

Private Equity

• A global private equity firm on the investment in a joint venture with a leading logistics real estate developer in Korea
• Carlyle on its:
  • Acquisition of a 10% stake in Hyundai Glovis, the logistics arm of Hyundai Motor Group
  • Acquisition of premium coffee shop chain, A Twosome Place, from Korean private equity house Anchor Equity Partners
  • US$200 million investment in Kakao Mobility, a business unit of Kakao Corp, a South Korean internet portal and chat app operator
  • US$1.93 billion acquisition of Tyco Fire Security Services Korea from the Tyco Group*
• Permira on its acquisition, as part of a consortium with regional Asian PE house Affinity Equity Partners and Korean corporate GS Retail, of German listed DeliveryHero’s Korean food delivery business, trading in Korea as Yogiyo

Corporate M&A

• LG Display on a series of transactions to dispose of its entire interest in LG Display (China) and LG Display (Guangzhou), which manufacture liquid crystal display (LCD) panels and modules in China, as it shifts its focus to organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology
• Hyundai Motor Group on its acquisition of a controlling stake in Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation, valued at US$1.1 billion
• LG Chem on its US$566 million acquisition of AVEO Oncology, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel cancer therapeutics
• Hyundai Motor Company on its US$4 billion autonomous driving joint venture with Aptiv, an innovative vehicle technology provider
• Hyundai Capital Service and Hyundai Capital Bank Europe GmbH on their acquisition of Sixt Leasing, a Germany-based vehicle leasing and management company
• Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors Corporation on their:
  • Equity investment in IONITY, a Germany-based provider of electric vehicle charging stations
  • Investment in Aurora Innovation, a company developing autonomous driving technology
• Hyundai Motor Company as a shareholder to Arrival, a London-based technology company that develops electric vehicles, on its listing on NASDAQ via US$5.4 billion business combination with CIIG Merger Corp., a special purpose acquisition company
• Hyundai Motor Company on its:
  • Joint venture with Global Group in Algeria
  • Joint venture with H2 Energy for supply of more than 1,600 fuel-cell electric trucks and distribution of hydrogen-powered commercial vehicles in Europe
  • Series B preferred shares investment into Pajarito Powder, a developer and manufacturer of advanced electrocatalyst materials for fuel cells and electrolyzers based in New Mexico
• Hyundai Motor India Limited, India’s first smart mobility solutions provider, on the potential acquisition of identified assets related to General Motors India, Talegaon Plant, Maharashtra
• Evolution Data Centres, a Singapore-based data center developer, on its programmatic joint venture with Warburg Pincus for the development of sustainable hyper-scale data centers in the fast-growing cloud markets within Southeast Asia
• Innobic (Asia) Company Limited, a wholly owned life science arm of PTT Public Company Limited, on its investment as part of a consortium in Alvogen Emerging Market Holdings Limited
• Tesco PLC on its £4.2 billion sale of Homeplus, Asia’s largest sale to private equity to date*
• China Investment Corporation on its co-investment with Brookfield in IFC Seoul and Conrad Hotel in Korea*
• General Motors on its reorganization of its joint ventures in Central Asia*
• LG Electronics on its acquisition of ZWK Group*
• CJ E&M on its acquisition of Blue Group, a major media group in Vietnam*
• Doosan Corporation on its acquisition of Circuit Foil Luxembourg*

Capital Markets

• Morgan Stanley on its:
  • Issuance of US$687.8 million 1.5% convertible bonds due 2024 by LG Display Co., Ltd., the world’s leading display company known for its innovation, together with Bank of America Merrill Lynch as underwriters
  • KR₩391 billion block trade of Dong-Joo Shin’s shares in Lotte Shopping*
• Merrill Lynch International on the KR₩391 billion block trade of Hyundai Motor Company*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham & Watkins