Overview
Johneth Park is a partner and foreign legal consultant in the Corporate Practice Group and Office Managing Partner of the firm's Seoul office.
Areas of Practice
Johneth's primary areas of concentration include capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. He has extensive experience representing corporate, financial and government-affiliated clients in Korea-related work as well as work in other jurisdictions.
Johneth has worked on securities offerings by a wide range of Korean issuers, including The Republic of Korea, The Export-Import Bank of Korea, Korea Electric Power Corporation, Korea Hydro-Nuclear Power, Korea Western Power, Korea Midland Power, Korea East-West Power, Korea South-East Power, Korea Gas Corporation, Korea Expressway Corporation, Korea Land Corporation, Cheil Industries, Samsung Life Insurance, Shinhan Financial Group, Shinhan Bank, Hyundai Motors, Hyundai Capital Services, Hyundai Card, POSCO, POSCO Engineering & Construction, POSCO Specialty Steel, STX, SK Telecom, GRAVITY, WiderThan, and C&M, among others, and periodic SEC reporting by KEPCO and Shinhan Financial Group.
Johneth has also worked on a number of M&A and private equity transactions, including the sale of a controlling stake in a Singapore-listed subsidiary by STX Offshore & Shipbuilding, investments by Goldman Sachs PIA in a number of Korean companies, investments by Citadel in a number of PRC-based companies, joint ventures involving LG Display, private equity investments into Yingli Green Energy, acquisition of MSK Corporation by Suntech, acquisition financing involving Citi and C&M, the acquisition of Andover Bancorp by Banknorth Group, and acquisitions of brokerage firm by Boston Financial Holdings, among others.
Johneth has also worked as General Counsel for Doosan Corporation and Chief Legal Officer for HyAxiom, Inc. a US-based subsidiary of Doosan Corporation.