Naomi Y. Kwang

Represents various companies headquartered in Asia with respect to their investments and operations into the U.S., including: 

• Counsel for M&A transactions and early-stage investments, including assisting:
  • A publicly traded Chinese medical diagnostics company in its $200 million acquisition of U.S. company and continued to serve as client’s U.S. counsel with respect to its U.S. investments.
  • A publicly traded Chinese medical diagnostics company in its strategic investment into a U.S. early-stage biomedical company.
  • A privately held Chinese company in the leisure and outdoor equipment sector in its planned acquisition of California customer and continued as corporate counsel for client’s U.S. affiliate and subsidiary.
• External U.S. counsel to various growth stage South-East-Asian companies establishing operations in the U.S., assisting with entity formation, contracting and employment matters, intellectual property strategy, registration and licensing matters, visa strategy and application, fundraising, and capital market legal advice.
• External U.S. counsel to various Korean companies in the E.V. sector establishing manufacturing facilities in the U.S., assisting with entity formation, site selection, government incentive negotiation, real estate acquisition, environmental and permitting, contract drafting and negotiation, visa strategy and application, employment and other U.S. legal advice.
• External U.S. counsel to various state-owned, publicly listed and privately held Chinese companies with operations in the U.S., including companies in the automotive, advanced aluminum, and leisure and outdoor equipment sectors.
• Issuance of legal due diligence reports on U.S. wholly owned or partially owned subsidiaries in support of clients’ IPO efforts or public company restructuring efforts in China.

• Represented strategic European client’s U.S. subsidiary in the purchase of a $800 million consumer product business.
• Represented U.S. client in the sale auction of a $70 million data center business to a private-equity backed buyer
• Represented U.S. client in the sale auction of a $100 million SaaS business to a private-equity backed buyer
• Represented U.S. client in its various acquisitions of independent sales representatives businesses
• Represented various U.S. manufacturing clients in their strategic acquisitions ranging from $10 million to over $100 million in transaction value.
• Represented Japanese client in its acquisition of various equipment dealers in the U.S.
• Represented U.S. client in the energy sector in its sale of various assets
• Represented U.S. client in its refinancing of over $100 million in debt facility
• Represented Fortune 500 U.S. client in its various acquisitions of equipment dealers in the U.S.
• Represented U.S. client in multiple rounds of fund raising with investors related to investments in real estate
• Represented a manufacture of thermoplastic polymers in the sale of equity to a PE-backed manufacturer of advanced polymers.