Kunchok Yaklha

KUNCHOK YAKLHA focuses her practice on corporate and securities law matters, representing underwriters and issuers in connection with a variety of SEC-registered and exempt transactions, including initial public offerings, common and preferred equity offerings, and debt offerings. 

Prior to joining Sidley, she worked for the UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers providing research support to the thematic reports submitted to the UN Human Rights Council and the UN General Assembly. Kunchok also worked as a legislative assistant in the Parliament of Canada tracking parliamentary proceedings and assisting in legislative drafting. Kunchok received her LL.M. from Harvard Law School where she was a member of the Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project providing pro bono legal research and analysis to entrepreneurs at Harvard and MIT. Kunchok received her J.D. from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law.

She is currently on the junior board of Read Ahead, a non-profit that provides a reading-based mentorship program for elementary school students.

Kunchok is fluent in Tibetan and Hindi.

• The underwriters in Central Bancompany, Inc.’s US$373 million initial public offering.
• Porch Group, Inc., a homeowners insurance and vertical software platform, in connection with two concurrent refinancing transactions that will retire the majority of its 2026 Unsecured Convertible Notes: the repurchase of US$144.3 million aggregate principal amount of its 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2026 and the pricing of a private offering of US$134 million aggregate principal amount of newly issued 9.00% Convertible Senior Unsecured Notes due 2030.
• The underwriters in connection with 3M Company’s offering of US$550 million 4.800% Notes due 2030 and US$550 million 5.150% Notes due 2035.
• The underwriters in connection with a US$2.05 billion, Series A, Medium-Term Notes offering by American Honda Finance Corporation. The offering consisted of four tranches: (i) $650 million 4.550% Notes due 2028, (ii) $400 million Floating Rate Notes due 2028, (iii) $500 million 4.800% Notes due 2030, and (iv) $500 million 5.200% Notes due 2035.
• Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and the other underwriters in connection with Old National Bancorp’s forward equity offering in connection with its proposed acquisition of Bremer Financial Corporation.
• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in its sale of US$607.7 million of common units representing limited partner interests of Energy Transfer LP in an underwritten public offering.
• PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust in the private placement under Rule 144 of US$200 million aggregate principal amount of exchangeable senior notes.
• Acrivon Therapeutics in its US$130 Million private placement financing.
• Discover Financial Services in connection with its registered offering of senior notes.
• The initial purchasers in connection with Solventum Corp Rule 144A offering of senior notes.
• The underwriters in connection with Stryker Corporation’s registered offering of senior notes.
• DYNAmore Holding GmbH on the sale of its six operational DYNAmore subsidiaries to Ansys, Inc.
• Wheels Donlen and its lead investor, Athene, in Wheels Donlen’s acquisition of LeasePlan USA.
• Inriver AB in connection with its investment by Thomas H. Lee Partners.
• The underwriters in connection with Brazil Potash Corp.’s US$30.0 million initial public offering.