Jin Hyuk Park

Jin Hyuk Park is a Partner in the Corporate Department at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and leads the Firm’s Korea Practice from the Hong Kong office.

Jin started in our New York office and joined the Hong Kong office after having spent several years in our Tokyo office building up our Asian Practice. 

Jin has extensive M&A and capital markets experience in China, Korea and the rest of Asia.  His M&A work includes buyouts and minority investments representing both private equity and strategic clients, and his capital markets transactions include IPOs and Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings representing both blue-chip companies as well as leading investment banks.

Jin has been recognized by Chambers Global, Chambers Asia and IFLR1000 for his expertise in both M&A and capital markets.

Jin graduated from Harvard University in 1987 (B.A. in Economics, magna cum laude) and University of Chicago Law School in 1990.

Jin’s representative transactions include:

• KKR in multiple transactions, including –
  • Purchase of redeemable convertible preferred shares issued by SK E&S for US$2 billion and subsequent purchase of additional redeemable convertible preferred shares issued by SK E&S
  • Acquisition of Taeyoung Industry and PT Silo
  • Purchase of notes issued by TY Holdings
  • Sale of KCF Technologies for US$1 billion
  • Consortium led by KKR in their US$650 million investment in Vinhomes, the largest real estate developer in Vietnam
  • US$1.8 billion acquisition of Oriental Brewery, the private equity firm’s first investment in Korea, as well as the $5.8 billion reacquisition by Anheuser-Busch InBev
• SK Group in multiple transactions, including –
  • Investments in The Center for Breakthrough Medicines, Plug Power, Anthropic, BigPay, Yposkesi, Mackage and Alice + Olivia and acquisition of AMPAC Fine Chemicals
  • SK Pharmteco in its pre-IPO financing
• Ant Group in its investment in Viva Republica
• Ant Financial in its investment in Kakao Pay
• Tsinghua Unigroup in its $600 million acquisition of a 25% interest in Powertech Technology and its acquisition of a 51% interest in a newly created business with a total value of approximately $4.5 billion, comprising Hewlett-Packard’s subsidiary, H3C Technologies, and HP’s China-based server, storage and technology services businesses
• Underwriters in the LG Energy Solution US$11 billion IPO on the Korea Stock Exchange, at the time the largest ever public offering in South Korea
• SK Biopharmaceuticals in its US$800.1 million IPO in KRX KOSPI market, at the time the largest initial public offering in South Korea
• Underwriters in the Lotte REIT US$360 million IPO on the Korea Stock Exchange
• Underwriters in Samsung Life Insurance US$4.4 billion IPO on the Korea Stock Exchange
• Underwriters in the global offering of Lotte Shopping US$3.7 billion concurrent dual listing IPO, at the time the largest ever public offering in South Korea
• Acushnet Holdings Corp. in its US$378 million IPO on New York Stock Exchange
• Underwriters in Samsung Life Insurance’s $4.4 billion IPO, at the time the largest-ever IPO in Korea
• Underwriters in the $1.37 billion IPO of Cheil Industries Inc.
• Underwriters in the global offering of Lotte Shopping's $3.7 billion concurrent dual listing IPO, at the time the largest-ever IPO by a Korean company
• Underwriters in the Initial Public Offering of Jinro Limited
• GRAVITY Co., Ltd. in its US$108 million IPO on NASDAQ
• Multiple sovereign debt offerings by The Republic of Korea and debt offerings by investment grade companies in Korea, including Korea Electric Power Corporation, Shinhan Financial Group, Shinhan Bank, KEB Hana Bank, Korea Expressway, Korea Gas, Korea Land & Housing, NongHyup Bank and Woori Card
• Initial purchasers in a $1 billion debt offering by Samsung Electronics America, Inc., guaranteed by Samsung Electronics in its first overseas bond offering in recent years
• Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd in its US$221.6 million offering of zero coupon guaranteed exchangeable bonds due 2020 
• Underwriters in Hyundai Capital America’s issuance of $500 million of 4.00% Senior Notes due 2017
• HyundaiCard Co., Ltd. in its offering of $400 million floating rate notes