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Youn-Jin Kim
Senior Associate
Email: ykim@fredlaw.com
Office: 612.492.7106
Assistant: Marian Heinemann, 612.492.7531
Overview
Experience
Honors & Education
Professional Activities
Overview
Youn-Jin helps clients navigate mergers and acquisitions, private offerings of securities, securities regulations compliance and capital market transactions.
Youn-Jin regularly advises emerging and established companies on mergers and acquisitions and other strategic transactions and helps them find cost effective solutions to their most challenging business problems. He represents life science and emerging growth companies in their private offerings of securities to angel and venture capital investors. Youn-Jin also advises publicly traded companies with respect to compliance with SEC and exchange rules, corporate governance, shareholder meetings, proxy solicitation and proxy contest.
Experience
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Represented a publicly traded Irish medical device company in its acquisition of a legacy diabetic device business from a leading European medical device maker
- Represented leading national middle market private equity funds in add-on acquisitions
- Represented a publicly traded Dutch medical device company specializing in orthopedic extremity surgical solutions products in its stock-for-stock merger with a publicly traded global medical device/biologics company based in U.S. ($3.3 billion)
- Represented Uroplasty in its stock-for-stock merger with Vision-Sciences ($50 million)
- Represented a privately held company specializing in minimally invasive interventional pulmonology devices in its sale to a publicly traded Irish medical device/pharmaceutical company ($300 million)
- Represented a publicly traded Dutch medical device company specializing in orthopedic extremity surgical solutions products in its acquisition of a lower extremity device company based in U.S. ($135 million plus earnout)
- Represented a publicly traded leading U.S. manufacturer and retailer of air beds in its acquisition of another air bed manufacturer ($15.5 million)
Capital Markets and Securities
- Represented publicly traded companies as well as underwriters in primary and secondary follow-on offerings
- Represented publicly traded companies with respect to compliance with SEC and exchange rules, corporate governance, shareholder meetings, proxy solicitation and proxy contest
Venture Capital
- Represented a Shanghai-based private equity fund in its investment of $13 million (Series A round) in a Cayman Island holding company that has operations in both Israel and Hong Kong
- Represented a precision pulmonary informatics company in its mid-stage private offering of preferred stock (Series B round) of approximately $5 million
- Represented a medical device company specializing in treatment of chronic diseases related to weak sphincter muscles in late stage private offerings of preferred stock of approximately $30 million (Series D round) and $25 million (Series E round)
- Represented a medical device company developing a minimally invasive device to treat the causes and symptoms of acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) in an early stage private offering of preferred stock (Series A round) of approximately $20 million
- Represented a medical device company focused on developing new technologies to treat rotator cuff disease in an oversubscribed, mid-stage private offering of preferred stock (Series B round) of approximately $27 million
- Represented a medical device company developing technologies to treat overactive bladders in an early stage private offering of preferred stock (Series A round) of approximately $13 million
- Represented a SaaS company (web-based clinical study and data management service provider) in an early stage private offering of preferred stock (Series A round) of approximately $6 million
- Represented other life science and emerging growth companies in various stages of private offerings, bridge financings and strategic transactions
Honors & Education
EDUCATION
- University of Iowa College of Law, J.D., 2010
- Chungnam National University, LLB, 2001
BAR ADMISSIONS
- Minnesota, 2010
LANGUAGES
- Korean
Professional Activities
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Hennepin County Bar Association
- Minnesota State Bar Association
- American Bar Association
COMMUNITY
- Board member, Downtown YMCA
- Volunteer attorney, LegalCORPS