Hyeisoo Kim

HYEISOO KIM focuses her practice on advising private and public companies, creditors, and investors in restructuring and transactional matters, including corporate transactions, out-of-court reorganizations, and bankruptcy proceedings.

Hyeisoo participated in Sidley’s Pro Bono Fellowship Program, working for Public Counsel and its Consumer Rights & Economic Justice project. While in law school, Hyeisoo served as a notes and submissions editor of the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal and worked as a clinic clerk at the USC Gould Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic. Hyeisoo also received the “Dean Dorothy Nelson Commemorative Prize” for her contribution to improvement of the administration of justice during law school.

Hyeisoo is a native Korean speaker.

• Merit Street Media, Inc., a Texas-based television and digital media company, in its Chapter 11 filing in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, and in the successful negotiation of US$21.4 million in debtor-in-possession financing.
• K2 HealthVentures LLC, an alternative investment firm that provides financing to life sciences companies, in its role as prepetition lender, bridge lender, DIP lender, and ultimately owner to Molecular Templates, Inc. in its Chapter 11 restructuring of its funded debt before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.