About Minkyu

Minkyu represents investment banks and public and private companies, particularly in the life sciences and technology industries, on capital markets and general corporate matters. He provides advice on a variety of securities transactions, including initial public offerings, follow-on equity offerings, PIPE financings and Rule 144A transactions.

Prior to joining Cooley, Minkyu was an associate in the New York office of Shearman & Sterling LLP. Before law school, Minkyu served in the Korean military battalion of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon to conduct peacekeeping operations.

Representative equity transactions:

  • Rent the Runway’s $357 million IPO
  • Cerevel Therapeutics’ $254 million follow-on equity offering and concurrent $345 million senior convertible notes offering
  • Verona Pharma’s $150 million follow-on equity offering
  • Lucira Health’s $176 million IPO*
  • Inari Medical’s $179 million IPO*
  • Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. II, III, IV, V and VI in IPOs with aggregate gross proceeds of over $3.6 billion*
  • Build Acquisition Corp.’s $200 million IPO*

Representative debt transactions:

  • Reckitt Benckiser’s $7.75 billion investment grade notes offering*
  • Kansas City Southern’s $1.9 billion investment grade notes offerings*
  • Science Applications International Corporation’s inaugural $400 million high yield notes offering*
  • LPL Holdings’ $400 million high yield notes offering*
  • Heartland Dental’s inaugural $310 million high-yield notes offering*
  • Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline’s inaugural $3.037 billion project-bond offering*
  • ViacomCBS in connection with its $2 billion notes offering and related $2 billion cash tender offers*

*Pre-Cooley Experience

Education

Cornell Law School
JD, 2015

Grinnell College
BA, Economics (Honors), 2010

Memberships and affiliations

Asian American Bar Association of NY (AABANY)