Tom Shon

Tom is an experienced corporate lawyer and strategic advisor with more than 20 years of experience.  He specialises in mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings and general corporate and securities matters and has extensive experience in providing commercially focused advice to major Australian and international companies in connection with a broad range of corporate and commercial transactions, including acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, due diligence, negotiating contracts, restructurings and reorganisations.  Tom also frequently advises his clients on foreign investment regulation and dealings with Government in relation to FIRB and ACCC.

Tom is a trusted adviser to his clients on their public and private M&A transactions, strategic joint ventures and a broad range of corporate, commercial and governance matters.  Tom regularly advises both foreign and domestic blue-chip clients across a broad range of sectors including Energy & Resources, Renewables, Defence, Financial Services, Tech and Pharmaceutical.

Tom is fluent in Korean and as MinterEllison's Korea Practice Leader, he regularly acts for major Korean multinational corporations and State-owned enterprises on their Australian strategic investments and on-going operations.  By way of example, some of the Korean clients Tom has advised include POSCO, Hanwha Aerospace / Defence, Samsung C&T, LG Energy Solution, SK Networks, Mirae Asset Global Investments, Dongwha Enterprise, KEPCO, KOMIR, Hyosung Heavy Industries, Celltrion Healthcare, Kumho Tyre, Hyundai Capital, Woori Bank and KB Kookmin Bank.