William Kim

• Corporate

Minnesota

Since 1983

Minnesota, 1983

New York

Since 1989

New York, 1989

Washington

Since 1989

Washington, D.C., 1989

Partner

Ropes & Gray

Current

Current

Bill’s recent assignments for Korean clients include a sale of a $2.2 billion company in the electronics industry; purchases of U.S. high-tech companies; forming strategic alliances with U.S. high-tech companies; $1.62 billion project development and project financing for oil refineries project in Mexico; $1.522 billion project development and project financing for oil refineries project in Mexico; $350 million project development and project financing for oil refineries project in Mexico; $300 million import and inventory financing; introduction of Korean automobiles in the U.S.; and establishment and obtaining broker-dealer licenses for securities firms. Bill also oversees legislative and public policy, and international trade practice and arbitration cases as they relate to Korean clients. In the past, he oversaw the successful defenses of several antidumping investigations filed against Korean companies before the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. International Trade Commission. From 1993 to 1997, Bill served as Managing Director and General Counsel of the Daewoo Group of Companies in its Chairman’s Office in Seoul Korea and, in that capacity, participated in numerous projects and transactions around the world.

University of Michigan

M.B.A.

1987

Georgetown University

J.D.

1983

The Catholic University of America

B.S.

1979