David Cho | Dechert

David K. Cho is a partner in Dechert’s Singapore office with more than two decades of Asia-Pacific transactional experience advising leading Korean conglomerates, multinational corporations and financial institutions on cross-border M&A, capital markets transactions and a wide range of corporate finance matters. A bilingual practitioner fluent in English and Korean, Mr. Cho is recognized for the depth and balance of his advice, integrating risk assessment with sharp commercial judgment and developing creative solutions to complex international transactions.

Mr. Cho's transactional practice covers the full spectrum of cross-border deal work, with particular focus on transactions involving South Korea and global markets, including the United States. He counsels clients on public and private M&A, private equity investments, joint ventures, strategic partnerships and capital markets transactions, including SEC-registered public offerings and Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings. His sector experience spans technology, semiconductors, clean energy, environmental, social and governance (ESG), life sciences, biopharmaceuticals, manufacturing and real estate, reflecting the broad range of industries served by his Korean conglomerate and multinational client base.

Mr. Cho previously served as Dechert’s Asia co-managing partner and managing partner of the firm’s Hong Kong office, building a highly regarded Korea-focused transactional practice. Those senior leadership roles – combining active transactional work with regional management responsibilities – underscore his ability to coordinate and close high-stakes international deals while maintaining a client-first focus on his clients' strategic and commercial objectives.

Mr. Cho is consistently recognized as one of South Korea's leading corporate M&A practitioners by Chambers Global and Chambers Asia-Pacific. Clients commend his dedication and commitment to delivering rigorous, high-quality analysis on a timely basis, and describe him as an adviser who provides a well-balanced perspective across both risk and commercial dimensions, with a particular talent for finding practical, innovative solutions even where none are readily apparent.

David Cho is a partner of Dechert LLP; registration as a foreign lawyer in Singapore is pending.

SK hynix Inc. on the second phase closing of its US$9 billion acquisition of Intel's global solid-state drive (SSD) and NAND flash memory business.
SK Enmove on the establishment of a joint venture with Gabriel India Limited (GIL), a subsidiary of the ANAND Group.
SK Group on a US$50 million private investment in public equity (PIPE) commitment with NET Power and Rice Acquisition Corp. II; the parties also intend to establish a NET Power-SK Joint Venture to pursue the origination and development of utility-scale NET Power plants across Asia.
SK Geo Centric Co., Ltd. in connection with its Asia joint venture arrangement with Loop Industries; the joint venture, to be headquartered in Singapore, will deploy Loop's circular plastics recycling technologies across the Asian market through multiple commercial manufacturing plants to be mutually agreed upon and built by the joint venture partners.
Gevo, a U.S. eco-friendly energy company, in its joint development agreement with LG Chem Ltd to commercialize bio-propylene; Gevo will provide the technology to LG Chem to produce propylene from bio-ethanol.
SK Geo Centric Co., Ltd. in connection with its acquisition of common stock and warrants exercisable for common stock of PureCycle Technologies, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed plastic recycling company.
SK Inc. in connection with its US$100 million investment in 8 Rivers Capital, LLC, a developer of decarbonization technologies based in North Carolina.
SK ecoplant Co., Ltd., a major construction company, on its US$1 billion acquisition of a 100% stake in Singapore-based battery lifecycle services firm TES Envirocorp Pte. Ltd.
Hana Alternative Asset Management Co., Ltd. on the US$300 million acquisition and financing of an office building located at 70 Hudson Street, Jersey City, N.J. from a joint venture between PFA Pension and Spear Street Capital.
SK Inc. in its acquisition of a minority stake in Monolith Materials, Inc., a U.S.-based leader in green hydrogen technologies.
A leading Korean conglomerate in its US$200 million minority investment in a U.S. pharmaceutical company focusing on targeted protein degradation therapeutics.
A multinational securities company in its investment and development of a data center platform in Korea.
The former senior management of a prominent U.S. data center company in the establishment and formation of a pan-Asia data center investment and development platform.
SK Holdings Co., Ltd. in its US$300 million investment in Chindata Group Holdings Limited, a data center operator.
SK Siltron in its US$450 million acquisition of DuPont's Silicon Carbide (SiC) Wafer business.
Fortune Group Holdings Limited, wholly owned by Chatchaval Jiaravanon, on the purchase of the FORTUNE media brand for US$150 million from Meredith Corporation Limited.
SK hynix, Inc. as a member of the consortium in the US$18 billion acquisition of Japan-based Toshiba Corporation's NAND flash memory and solid-state drive business.
Shanghai Shenda Co. Ltd., as international counsel, in connection with its agreement to form a global joint venture with International Automotive Components to supply soft trim and acoustics products to automotive original equipment manufacturers globally.
OCI Company Ltd. on its acquisition of a 100% equity interest of Tokuyama Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. from Tokuyama Corporation based in Japan.
OCI Solar Power, a North American subsidiary of listed South Korean clean energy and chemicals company OCI Company Ltd., in its agreement to sell Alamo 7, its latest solar power plant development project, to New York-based energy company ConEdison Development.
OCI Enterprises Inc., the North American subsidiary of OCI Company Ltd. of Seoul, Korea, in the US$430 million sale of a controlling stake of OCI Resources LP, a New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)-listed master limited partnership, to Ciner Enterprises Inc.
One of the world's largest financial services groups in its participation in a US$700 million preferred shares offering by a Chinese group-discount company.
A major Asian engineering, construction and energy conglomerate on its bid to partner with the Government of the Republic of Uganda to construct a crude oil refinery with an estimated capacity of 60,000 barrels per day and an estimated project cost of more than US$2.5 billion.
POSCO, a South Korea-based steel-making company, in its investments in the Chile-based lithium exploration companies Li3 Energy, Inc. and Pan American Lithium Corp.
A major Asia-based telecommunications company in its cross-border acquisition of a significant stake in another telecommunications company, with an expected transaction value of more than US$600 million.
SK Telecom Co., Ltd., South Korea's largest mobile telecommunications service provider, in its sale of a 3.7% stake in China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited back to China Unicom for approximately US$1.3 billion, as well as its U.S.-registered offering of American Depositary Shares of SK Telecom valued at more than US$1 billion.
Gmarket Inc., South Korea's largest e-commerce provider, in eBay's all-cash public tender offer for up to 100% of Gmarket for US$1.2 billion, and in the agreement by Yahoo! Inc. to acquire a 10% stake in Gmarket from Oak Investment Partners.
A leading Korean conglomerate in its establishment and formation of an overseas renewable energy focused infrastructure fund.
A securities company and asset manager in connection with an offshore financing of a proposed commercial retail property in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
A consortium of Korean investors in the offshore mezzanine financing of a commercial multiuse real estate development in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
E-Land Fashion China Holdings, Limited and E-Land Fashion Hong Kong Limited, subsidiaries of Eland World Limited, a leading retail company headquartered in Korea, in their US$225 million term loan facility refinancing and US$75 million revolving loan facility financing guaranteed by Eland World Limited.
OCI Resources LP on its master limited partnership initial public offering (IPO) and listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
SK Innovation Co., Ltd. and SK Technology Innovation Company in connection with their senior secured convertible note investment in HelioVolt Corporation, a producer of thin film solar photovoltaic (PV) modules.
Celltrion, a leading biopharmaceutical company, on the offering of its US$300 million convertible bond.
OCI Company Ltd., a South Korea-based global producer of polysilicon, in its US$700 million offering of global depositary receipts and listing in Singapore.
SK Telecom Co., Ltd., South Korea's largest mobile telecommunications service provider, in its U.S.-registered offering of American Depositary Shares of SK Telecom valued at more than US$1 billion.
Gmarket Inc., South Korea's largest e-commerce provider, in its US$144 million initial public offering on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Includes matters handled at Dechert or prior to joining the firm.