Johneth Park has joined Sheppard Mullin from Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, as a partner and foreign legal consultant in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm’s Seoul office. 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. He has worked on securities offerings by a wide range of Korean issuers, including The Republic of Korea, Korea Electric Power Corporation, Samsung Life Insurance, Shinhan Financial Group, KB Financial Group, Chohung Bank, Shinhan Bank, Korea Exchange Bank, Hyundai Motors, Hyundai Capital Services, STX, SK Telecom, and LG TeleCom.
