Dohyun Kim

Ms. Kim regularly advises public and private companies and private equity firms in a wide variety of U.S. and cross-border transactions and corporate matters, including acquisitions and dispositions, investments, joint ventures, spin-offs, carve-outs, restructurings and financings. She has represented clients across a diverse range of industry groups and sectors.

In recognition of her work on Union Pacific Corporation’s pending acquisition of Norfolk Southern Corporation, Ms. Kim was recognized as one of The American Lawyer’s Dealmakers of the Year in 2026, in addition to being repeatedly selected as a finalist for AmLaw’s Young Lawyer of the Year — Corporate. She has also been named to Chambers USA, Bloomberg Law’s They’ve Got Next 40 Under 40 list and Crains’ 40 Under Forty and Notable Diverse Leaders in Law lists. In addition, she was listed among the Top 10 Women Lawyers and Bankers at the Top of M&A Adviser Tables for 2025 as reported by Bloomberg, as well as honored as one of The Deal’s Top Rising Stars, one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Dealmakers in America and 500 Leading Lawyers in America and one of Law360’s Rising Stars.

Ms. Kim serves on the firm’s Client Engagement Committee.

Her notable representations include:

Technology, Media and Telecommunications; Gaming and Sports

• Elon Musk in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, Inc.
• Vimeo, Inc., a leading video platform for businesses, in its acquisition by Bending Spoons in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.38 billion
• Veoneer, Inc. in its $4.5 billion acquisition by SSW Partners and Qualcomm Incorporated following the termination of Veoneer’s previously announced $3.8 billion acquisition by Magna International Inc.
• Altice International in the $1 billion sale of its global video advertising platform Teads SA to U.S.-based ad tech company Outbrain Inc.
• ASML Holding N.V. in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Cymer, Inc.
• SHEIN in connection with its strategic partnership with SPARC Group Holdings II LLC
• Capgemini S.E. in its $4 billion acquisition of iGATE Corporation
• Hyundai Motor Company in its long-term sponsorship agreement with FIFA

Financial Services; Financial Technology

• E*TRADE Financial Corporation in its acquisition by Morgan Stanley in an all-stock transaction valued at $13 billion
• Greentech Capital Advisors Securities, LLC in its sale to Nomura Holdings, Inc.
• Leerink Partners in:
  • the management-led acquisition of SVB Securities from SVB Financial Group, backed by funds managed by The Baupost Group L.L.C.
  • its $280 million sale to SVB Financial Group
• Greenhill & Co., Inc. in its acquisition of Cogent Advisors
• Eurazeo in the acquisition of Planet Payment, Inc., a global payments company, through its portfolio company Fintrax Group
• the independent director committee of Corporate Capital Trust, Inc., a business development company, in its merger with FS Investment Corporation, a business development company

Life Sciences

• Mubadala Investment Company in its significant reinvestment in PCI Pharma Services alongside Bain Capital and existing investor Kohlberg
• Iora Health, Inc. in its $2.1 billion all-stock acquisition by 1Life Healthcare, Inc.
• Pfizer Inc. in its $900 million sale of its global infusion therapy business, Hospira Infusion Systems, to ICU Medical, Inc.
• Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a portfolio company of B-FLEXION and Novo Holdings, in its acquisitions of Radius Health, Inc. and OptiNose, Inc.
• Orum Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage South Korean biotech company, in the $180 million sale of its ORM-6151 program to Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
• Corin Group, a U.K. international orthopaedic company backed by Permira Funds, in its acquisition of U.S.-based OMNI Orthopaedics Inc., a pioneer in robotic-assisted total knee replacement
• Covidien plc and its affiliates in connection with their U.S. and cross-border corporate and financing transactions undertaken to facilitate the spin-off of Mallinckrodt plc

Consumer Products

• Mubadala Investment Company in its co-investment with Bain Capital in Service Logic
• LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton S.E. in its $16.2 billion acquisition of Tiffany & Co.
• Have & Be Co. Ltd., the South Korean parent company of skin care brands Dr. Jart+ and Do The Right Thing, in its sale of an interest to The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. and subsequent sale of the rest of the company at an enterprise value of $1.7 billion
• Tula Life, Inc., an L Catterton-backed skin care company, in its acquisition by Procter & Gamble
• D.S. & Durga, LLC, a Brooklyn-based luxury fragrance brand, in its sale of a majority stake to Manzanita Capital UK LLP
• By Kilian, a Paris-based prestige fragrance brand, in its sale to The Estee Lauder Companies Inc.
• Coty Inc. in its acquisition of the fine fragrances, color cosmetics and hair color businesses of The Procter & Gamble Company in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction
• JAB Holding Company in its:
  • $18.7 billion acquisition of a controlling stake in Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc.
  • acquisitions of Einstein Noah Restaurant Group and Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Inc.
  • formation of Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE), a pure-play coffee products joint venture, combining the coffee businesses of D.E Master Blenders B.V. 1753 and Mondelez International, Inc.
• Keurig Dr. Pepper in its acquisitions of the Big Red and Core brands
• Tamarix-backed Playa Bowls in its sale to Sycamore Partners
• Halbert Spirits Company, Inc. (doing business as On The Rocks Premium Cocktails) in its sale to Beam Suntory, Inc.
• The Coca-Cola Company in its 16.7% investment in, and worldwide strategic partnership with, Monster Beverage Corporation
• Mars, Incorporated in its $2.9 billion acquisition of the Iams, Eukanuba and Natura pet food brands from The Procter & Gamble Company

Industrials

• Korea Zinc in the formation, launch and funding of a strategic joint venture with the U.S. Department of War and Department of Commerce involving a $7.4 billion investment and financing package to support a state-of-the-art smelter and critical mineral processing facility in Tennessee
• Devon Energy in its pending all-stock merger with Coterra Energy, creating a large-cap shale operator that will be one of the largest producers in the Delaware Basin with an implied combined enterprise value of approximately $58 billion
• Union Pacific Corporation in its pending $85 billion acquisition of Norfolk Southern Corporation to create America’s first transcontinental railroad, with combined enterprise value of more than $250 billion
• MP Materials Corp. in its public-private partnership with the Department of Defense (DOD) to establish U.S. rare earth magnetics independence, with a multibillion-dollar package of investments and long-term commitments from DOD
• Dover Corporation in the $2 billion sale of its Environmental Solutions Group to Terex Corporation
• KAR Auction Services, Inc. in:
  • its spin-off of IAA, Inc., its salvage auction vehicle business
  • a $550 million strategic investment led by funds advised by Apax Partners
  • the $2.2 billion sale of its ADESA U.S. physical auction business to Carvana
• HAAH Automotive Holdings in connection with strategic investment opportunities in South Korea