Bio

John Kim specialises in advising Korean and multinational clients in relation to cross-border M&A and other corporate transactions. He has worked on many of the largest and most significant cross-border corporate / M&A matters for multinational and Korean clients. He has been repeatedly recognised as one of Korea's leading practitioners in the corporate / M&A area. John has broad experience spanning a variety of industry sectors, including financial services, healthcare, energy, telecommunications, retail, general industrial and automotive. John is ranked Band 1 by Chambers Global. He previously worked in the New York office of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Following his experience in New York, he worked for many years at Kim & Chang and Yulchon, respectively, in Korea. John is a partner of Ashurst LLP and a registered foreign consultant (New York) based in Hong Kong.