Profile Son-U Michael Paik
Seoul National University

PRESENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: PRACTICE
  • Hankook Tire Company, Ltd., Seoul, Korea, General Counsel, 5.2004 – Present
  • Inje Foundation: Inje University, Paik Hospitals, Seoul, Korea, General Counsel, 5.2004 – Present
  • The Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority, Incheon, Korea, Legal Advisor, 3.2005 – Present

ACADEMIC
  • Seoul National University, College of Engineering, Director, Technology Incubation Network, 9.2005 – Present
  • Judicial Training & Research Institute, Ilsan, Korea, Professor & Coordinator, US Law Program, 3.2006 – Present
  • Center for American Legal Studies, Inje Institute of Advanced Studies, Seoul, Korea, Director, 3.2006 – Present

ADVISORY
  • Venture Valuation Korea, Seoul, Korea, Director, 3.2004 – Present
  • Cube Consulting & Communications, Seoul, Korea, Director, 8.2004 – Present

PAST PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
  • Yonsei University, College of Law, Seoul, Korea, Assistant Professor, 3.2004 – 3.2006
  • The Korean Nurses Association, Seoul, Korea, Legal Advisor, 5.2004 – 9.2005
  • The Korean Venture Capital Association, Seoul, Korea, Legal Advisor, 1.2002 – 1.2004
  • California Young Lawyers Association, Sacramento, CA, Member, Board of Directors, 9.2003 – 2.2004
  • Tomlinson Zisko LLP, Palo Alto, California, Attorney-at-Law, 11.2002 – 11.2003
  • Liu Murray Lee & Paik, LLP, Palo Alto, California, Special Counsel, 11.2001 – 11.2002
  • Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, California, Associate, 9.1999 – 7.2001
  • Cahill Gordon & Reindel, NY, NY, Associate, 8.1998 – 9.1999, Law Clerk, Summer 1997, Spring 1998
  • Kobayashi Sugita & Goda, Honolulu, Hawaii, Law Clerk, 8.1997 – 12.1997
  • Coopers & Lybrand, New York, New York, Summer Associate, 5.1996 – 8.1996
  • CJ International, Seoul, Korea, Summer Associate, 6.1993 – 8.1993
  • LG Securities, Inc., Seoul, Korea, Analyst, 9.1991 – 9.1992

EDUCATION:
  • Columbia Law School, New York, New York, Juris Doctor (JD), 5.1998
  • Yale School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut, Master of Business Administration (MBA), 5.1995
  • Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, Bachelor’s Degree in Economics (BA), 8.1991, Magna Cum Laude

AFFILIATIONS: New York State Bar, State Bar of California and Mensa

LANGUAGES (in order of fluency): English, Korean, German, and Japanese

REPRESENTATIVE CLOSED TRANSACTIONS:
Warner Chilcott IPO, Biopure Corporation IPO, Integrated Telecom Express, Inc. IPO, Tut Systems, Inc. Follow-on Offering, Sofinnova Ventures Series A Financing of Atomz.com, Otelnet, Inc. Series B Financing, EForce, Inc. Series B Financing, Integrated Telecom Express, Inc. Series B Financing, Silicon Motion, Inc. Series D-2 Preferred Financing, Crescent Ventures Series A Financing of Espial Group, Crescent Ventures Series C Financing of Bigfoot Media, Crescent Ventures Series B Financing of Enverta, Redleaf Venture Capital Series B Financing of Edgewood Creek, Greylock Venture Capital Series B Financing of Wily Technologies, LG Electronics, Inc. Investment in Erlang Technologies, LG Venture Investments Series B financing of Netgeo, LG Venture Investments Series A and Series B financings of Covigna, Samsung Electronics Private Offering of Senior Notes, Biovail Corporation Private Offering of Senior Notes, Hummer Winblad Dean & Deluca Inc. Private Placement, Hummer Winblad Financing for Dean & Deluca, Inc., Faraday Technology Corporation Common Stock Placement, Sofinnova Venture Partners Series B Financing of Airzip, KGIF Series B Financing of Airwalk Technologies, Samsung Electronics Series B Financing of Athena Semiconductors, Solectron Corporation to Smart Modular Merger, Quantum Corporation to Meridian Merger, Andromedia Corporation Acquisition by Macromedia Corporation, Tut Systems Acquisition of FreeGate Corporation, Rubric, Inc. Acquisition by Broadbase Software, eForce iKinetics Acquisition, hi/fn Apptitide Acquisition, Quantum Corporation Acquisition by Maxtor Corp. of HDD Division, PeopleSoft Acquisition of SkillsVillage

UNIVERSITY COURSES TAUGHT:
Spring 2004, Law & BioEthics, Yonsei Medicine; Venture Capital Transactions, Yonsei GMBA Fall 2004, Nursing Management, Yonsei Nursing; Health Care Finance, Yonsei Medicine; Comparative Law, Yonsei Law; MultiState, Yonsei Law Spring 2005, US Law, Yonsei Law; US Cases, Yonsei Law; International Law, Yonsei GMBA; Business Law, Yonsei Law Fall 2005, Introduction to US Law, Yonsei Law; Law, Technology & Policy, SNU College of Engineering Spring 2006, Law & Innovation, SNU College of Engineering; International Trade Law, Ewha University Fall 2006, Venture Capital, SNU College of Engineering; Law & Innovation, SNU College of Engineering