Sung Mee Hong is a senior foreign attorney in the Corporate and M&A Practice Groups. She has assisted numerous domestic and foreign companies in mergers and acquisitions, in-bound and out-bound investments, and joint venture projects. She also advises clients on general corporate and business laws. For the past several years, she has been focusing on Vietnam and other Southeast Asian region practice, and she has strong working relationships with several Korean financial institutions and represented them with regard to their overseas investments and other various transactions, including, without limitation, acquisition of several banks in the Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia and establishment of foreign credit institutions in Vietnam. She also regularly advises her financial sector clients on the operation and management issues.
Representative Cases
[Banking and Financial Sector M&A]
Advised major Korean commercial banks in their attempted acquisitions of micro-finance institutions in Cambodia
Advised Woori Bank in its acquisition of Wealth Development Bank in the Philippines
Advised a major Korean commercial bank in its attempted acquisition of minority stakes in a publicly listed commercial bank in the Philippines
Advised Shinhan Capital in its acquisition of a securities company in Indonesia and subsequent exit from the investment
Advised several major Korean banks and securities companies with regard to M&A and NPL trading in Vietnam
[M&A Experience in Other Sectors]
Advised GS Home Shopping’s joint venture project in Indonesia
Advised Lotte in the investment and launch of duty-free businesses in the Thailand and Vietnam
Advised a major corporation in its attempted acquisition of controlling stake in a publicly listed logistics company in Vietnam
Advised E-mart in its joint venture project in the hypermarket business in Mongol
Advised Key Safety Systems in its acquisition of Image-Next
Advised eBay’s investments into Hellomarket
Advised LG Household and Health Care’s joint venture projects in China
Advised THE FACE SHOP’s joint venture projects in China
Advised Shinsegae in the joint venture with a foreign investor for Hanam Square project and Shinsegae Dongdaegu CTC (Transportation Hub) project
Advised SK in its joint venture project with Nippon Oil in Ulsan Complex
Advised Lotte Chilsung in the joint venture project with Asahi Beverage
Advised LG Electronics in the multi-jurisdictional restructuring project with Hitachi
Advised CJ E&M in the multi-jurisdictional restructuring project with FOX
Advised CJ O Shopping in its acquisition of OnMedia Corporation
Advised Lotteria in the acquisition of Burger King Japan
Advised LG Household and Health Care in the acquisition of Haitai Beverage
Advised Leoni Bordnetz-Systeme GmbH in its acquisition of shares in DLS and Daekyung T&G
Advised Goldman Sachs Asset Management in its acquisition of shares in Macquarie-IMM Investment Management
Advised ERGO International AG in its acquisition of shares in Daum Direct Auto Insurance
Advised TJ Media in its acquisition of DREAM SAS
Advised Hanjin in the joint venture project with Central Asian Trans in Uzbekistan
Advised Hanwha Chemical Corporation in the joint venture projects in Saudi Arabia with Sipchem
Education
Work Experience
Admissions
- Admitted to bar California: 1998
Awards and Recognitions
- Selected as “Notable Practitioner” (Corporate and M&A) by IFLR1000 (2019)
