Kim & Chang

Mergers & Acquisitions; Corporate Governance & Shareholder Disputes; Foreign Direct Investment; Private Equity; Corporate & M&A Litigation; Corporate Finance; Shareholder Activism

Shin Kwon Lim is a senior attorney in Kim & Chang’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. He specializes in mergers & acquisitions, private equity investments and corporate restructuring.

Since joining the firm in 2004, Mr. Lim has represented a number of multinational corporations and private equity funds on both cross-border and domestic transactions, many of these being the first of their kinds in Korea. Also, he has extensive experience handling intra-group corporate restructuring transactions, including merger, spin-off and comprehensive stock swap.

Mr. Lim is one of the “leading” M&A lawyers in Korea, as recognized by some of the world’s leading legal directories, such as Chambers Global, Chambers Asia-Pacific and Who’s Who Legal: Korea. Since 2016, he has also been recognized as one of the “Leading Lawyers” in Corporate Governance and M&A by LegalTimes, a top legal publication in Korea. He was also awarded "Client Choice Awards: Souht Korea Lawyer of the Year" from Asia law in 2023.

Korean and English

Admitted to bar, Korea, 2001; New York, 2011

New York University School of Law (LL.M., 2010) Graduate School of Law, Seoul National University (LL.M., 2003) Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (2001) Seoul National University (LL.B., 1999)