Johneth Chongseo Park, former managing partner of U.S. law firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton’s Seoul office, has returned to co-lead the office in the South Korean capital.
Park was managing partner of Sheppard Mullin’s Seoul office between 2015 and 2020, leaving the firm to take on in-house roles at Doosan Corporation, then HyAxiom. Earlier in his career, Park spent more than 11 years at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in its Seoul and Hong Kong offices.
He returns to co-lead the office with Wonsun Jung, who joined the firm earlier this month from White & Case.
Park advises corporate, financial and government-affiliated clients on capital markets, M&A and private equity transactions. His clients include the South Korean government, the Export-Import Bank of Korea, Korea Electric Power Corporation, Korea Hydro-Nuclear Power, Korea Gas Corporation and Samsung Life Insurance. Among his notable deals are the sale of a controlling stake in a subsidiary by STX Offshore & Shipbuilding, investments by Goldman Sachs PIA, private equity investments into Yingli Green Energy, and acquisition of MSK Corporation by Suntech.
His return means Sheppard Mullin now has four partners in Seoul.
