Overview
Yujin Kang's practice mainly focuses on domestic and international inbound and outbound M&As, private equity investment and emerging companies. Ms. Kang joined Bae, Kim & Lee LLC in 2020 after being admitted to the Korean Bar. She graduated as the top student in the Korea University School of Media & Communication and earned a summa cum laude distinction upon graduating from Korea University School of Law.
Related Practices
Representative Experience
2020-Present
Bae, Kim & Lee LLC
Representative Matters
Advised KKR on its acquisition of Air Products Korea
Advised JKL Partners on the sale of Lotte General Insurance
Advised EastBridge Partners consortium on its investment in SK On
Advised Daishin Private Equity on its investment in Hyundai LNG
Advised Korea Development Bank on the sale of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering
Private Equity
Advised KKR on its acquisition of Air Products Korea
Advised JKL Partners on the sale of Lotte General Insurance
Advised Paratus Investment on its acquisition of convertible bonds and bonds with warrants rights of Unitekno, a KOSDAQ-listed company
Advised CVC Capital Partners on its acquisition of AirFirst
Advised EastBridge Partners consortium on its investment in SK On
Advised Daishin Private Equity on its investment in Hyundai LNG
Advised Stonebridge Capital on its investment in new shares and convertible bonds of Cloocus
Advised UCK Partners on its acquisition of Terarosa
Mergers & Acquisitions
Advised Korea Development Bank on the sale of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering
Advised LG Uplus and Kakao Mobility on their electric vehicle charging joint venture (JV) project
Advised E-Mart on its investment in OK Meat
Advised JKL Partners on the sale of beauty brand Perennebell
Foreign Direct Investment
Advised CP Group in Thailand on its investment in food tech startup Gopizza
Advised Microsoft on its investment in Wemade
Advised POSCO Holdings on its project to establish a local subsidiary in Poland and joint venture in Korea for battery scrap recycling business
Corporate Governance
Advised KT and KT&G, which are decentralized companies, on their corporate governance-related projects
Advised SeAH Holdings on the reorganization of group governance and the sale of three affiliated companies
Advised KT Alpha on its restructuring of business division (spin-off, merger and acquisition, etc.)
Advised CJ CheilJedang on its in-kind contribution to the health functional food division and the project to establish a new subsidiary (CJ Wellcare)
Emerging Companies
Advised Edtech startup Mathpresso on attracting investment from Google
Advised and consulted a number of companies on stock options
Advised a number of companies on flip
Management Disputes
Reviewed internal issues of investee companies of private equity funds and advised on a number of projects to defend management rights
Advised on a number of disputes of private equity fund co-GPs and disputes between GPs and LPs
Education
2020
Korea University School of Law (J.D., summa cum laude)
2017
Korea University (B.A., Valedictorian)
Qualifications
2020
Korea
