Sang Jin Han
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & HamiltonConsidered the ‘top go-to US firm’ on the ground for cross-jurisdictional corporate transactions, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton’s market leading team provides a full service to high-profile Korean clients on outbound investments and a wide range of transactional work. With decades of experience, Sang Jin Han leads the team in handling private equity M&A, joint venture, and share and convertible bond acquisition transactions. Jae Sung Kim is a respected advisor in intellectual property-infused matters, as well as internal reorganization work. Ji-Won Lim advises on corporate government matters and public M&A, while Ki Won Ahn advises on a wide range of acquisitions.
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‘Cleary is the top go-to U.S. law firm in Korea for the past three decades. Cleary's practice is diverse encompassing capital markets, M&A, antitrust and litigation, which is very rare for a foreign law firm in Korea.'
‘Sang Jin Han is a well versed M&A practitioner sought by both Korean corporations and private equity firms.'
‘Cleary's Korea practice is very strong and the best among all foreign law firms in Korea. They have vast experience in Korea, particularly in M&As involving Korean target companies and their outbound transactions. They are outstanding and other foreign firms are not even comparable to them. ’
‘Sang Jin Han is an excellent and very hard working attorney. ’
Key clients
- Blackstone Group
- CBC Group, Mubadala, GS Holdings and IMM Investments
- CJ Group companies
- GIC Private Equity
- Hahn & Company and its portfolio companies
- Hanwha Group companies
- MBK Partners and its portfolio companies
- Naver Corporation
- Palantir Technologies Inc.
- POSCO Group companies
- Samsung Group companies
- Sequoia Capital
- SK Group companies
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Sang Jin Han