Catherine Minji Kim

Counsel New York

Biography

Catherine Kim
Catherine Kim is a counsel in Weil’s Technology & IP Transactions group and the Privacy & Cybersecurity practice. Catherine regularly counsels clients across industry sectors in connection with U.S. and international data privacy and cybersecurity matters, guiding clients through compliance with new and evolving data privacy and cybersecurity laws, security incidents, and complex corporate transactions. Catherine also advises clients in the licensing, acquisition, divestiture, development and commercial exploitation of intellectual property, including with respect to data rights.

Catherine is certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) with respect to the U.S. private-sector (CIPP/US). She has extensive experience helping clients navigate existing and evolving data privacy and cybersecurity laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), various other omnibus U.S. state privacy laws, industry-specific federal laws such as the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules on cybersecurity risk management, governance and incident disclosures, the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM), and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), along with various U.S. state laws focused on the protection of children and minors, such as the California Age Appropriate Design Code and various social media laws as they intersect with privacy.

Catherine also regularly advises clients in a wide range of technology transactions, including with respect to data rights, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

Catherine is one of the leaders of the Firm’s Asian Affinity Group Steering Committee, and regularly counsels pro bono clients on intellectual property and privacy-related matters.

Representative matters:

  • ChampionX Corporation in its pending sale to SLB.
  • Goldman Sachs in its sale of Marcus Invest’s digital investing accounts to Betterment LLC.
  • John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in its sale of Wiley Edge to Inspirit Capital.
  • Sculptor Capital Management Inc. in its sale to Rithm Capital Corp.
  • WellSpring Consumer Healthcare (a portfolio company of Avista Capital Partners) in a carve-out transaction involving the acquisition of skin care brands A+D, Solarcaine, Cortate and Complex 15 from Bayer AG.
  • Advent International in its $6.4 billion acquisition of Maxar Technologies.
  • MGM Resorts International in its $450 million sale of the operations of Gold Strike Casino Resort in Tunica, Mississippi to CNE (a subsidiary of Cherokee Nation Businesses).
  • SiriusXM in its acquisition of Team Coco.
  • Redbox Entertainment Inc. in its pending sale to Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Inc.
  • Skillsoft Corporation in its $525 million acquisition of Codecademy.
  • Sanofi in its up to $1.225 billion acquisition of Amunix Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  • NEOGEN Corporation in its pending $5.3 billion combination with the Food Safety business of 3M, in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction that implied an enterprise value of the combined company of $9.3 billion.
  • MGM Resorts International in its $1.075 billion sale of the operations of The Mirage Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip to Hard Rock International.
  • American Securities in its acquisition of FullBloom Education.
  • Providence Equity in its acquisition of a minority stake in Seesaw Learning, Inc.
  • MGM Resorts International in its $1.625 billion acquisition of the operations of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
  • MGM Resorts International in its $17.2 billion sale of MGM Growth Properties LLC to VICI Properties Inc.
  • American Securities in its $1.575 billion sale of Henry Company.
  • Advent International and its portfolio company Culligan International Company in Culligan’s $6 billion sale to BDT Capital Partners, with Advent reinvesting on a minority basis.
  • ShootProof, LLC (a portfolio company of PSG) in its acquisition of Collage.com, Inc. and the formation with Collage.com of Foreground.
  • American Securities in its acquisition of Conair Corporation.
  • Foley Trasimene Acquisition Corp., a SPAC sponsored by Bilcar FT, LP and Trasimene Capital FT, LP., in its $7.3 billion combination with Alight Solutions LLC.
  • Foley Trasimene Acquisition Corp. II, a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of Trasimene Capital Management, LLC and led by William P. Foley II, in a $9 billion business combination with Paysafe Limited.
  • Charlesbank Capital Partners, together with Robert Long and Blair Ramey of Sanofi’s North American Consumer Healthcare division, in the formation of Bridges Consumer Healthcare LLC and in Bridges' acquisition of the North American rights to ThermaCare® HeatWraps.
  • Churchill Capital Corp III, a SPAC sponsored by Churchill Capital Group, in its $5.7 billion merger with MultiPlan, Inc. that has an enterprise value based on the transaction of approximately $11 billion.
  • Montagu Private Equity in its $490 million acquisition of the original equipment manufacturing (OEM) and tissue processing businesses of RTI Surgical, Inc.
  • Froneri International Limited in its $4 billion acquisition of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Inc.
  • MGM Resorts International (MGM Resorts) in its $4.25 billion sale of the Bellagio to a joint venture MGM Resorts formed with Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust and its leaseback of the Bellagio.
  • Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, in, together with Alphabet Inc., an investment in Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners.
  • MarketAxess Holdings Inc. in its $150 million acquisition of LiquidityEdge and in its acquisition of MuniBrokers, LLC.
  • SoftBank Vision Fund as lead investor in a $200 million investment round in C2FO.

Previously, Catherine was an associate in Weil’s Banking & Finance practice, where she has been part of the teams advising on, among others, the following matters:

  • J.Crew Group (a portfolio company of TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners) in an amendment to its existing credit facility and an incremental facility provided by new lenders as part of its recapitalization.
  • Univision Network in connection with its existing credit facility and annual perfection review.
  • General Motors as the largest creditor and equity holder of General Motors Korea, a joint venture with the state-owned Korean Development Bank, in connection with the restructuring and potential bankruptcy of General Motors Korea.
  • Citi, as sole lead arranger and sole lead bookrunner, in $15.7 billion fully committed bridge financing and $4.5 billion term and revolving working capital facilities for Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), to support BD's $24 billion acquisition of C. R. Bard Inc.
  • Morgan Stanley, as sole lead arranger and sole lead bookrunner, in $4.5 billion committed bridge and $1.8 billion term acquisition-related facilities and a $1.5 billion revolving facility for Tyson Foods, Inc., to finance, respectively, its $4.2 billion merger with AdvancePierre Foods Holdings, Inc., and its general corporate purposes.
  • A consortium led by Mubadala Investment Company in the sale of its approximately 60% equity interest in EMI Music Publishing to Sony Corporation of America, in a transaction valued at approximately $4.75 billion.
  • Getty Images in connection with a $1 billion term loan, €450 million term and $80 million revolving facilities.

Catherine received her J.D. from Duke University, where she was the president of the Asian Law Student Association (now called APALSA) and was a staff editor for the Duke Law Journal and Duke Law & Technology Review. She received her B.S. from New York University, where she graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.