Bio
Profile
Experience
Foreign Attorney Program, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York (1987-1988)
Kim & Chang (1981-Present)
Representative Mattersshow
- Advised banks, an electric power company, and other Korean companies with respect to issue of offshore bonds.
- Advised the Korean Government and financial institutions with respect to global rescheduling of Korean financial institutions’ debts during the financial crisis in 1997.
- Advised lenders with respect to aircraft lease financing transactions for Korean commercial airliners.
- Advised a Korean engineering company on certain petrochemical plant projects in Thailand.
- Advised a Korean engineering company on its power project in Indonesia.
- Advised a Korean company for its zinc refinery project in Australia.
- Advised a bank and foreign lenders with respect to project financing for a power plant project in the Philippines.
- Advised Korean lenders on a coal mining project in Indonesia.
- Advised sponsors on project financing for a port project in Busan, Korea.
- Advised sponsors on toll road projects in Korea.
- Advised sponsors and a project company for a light railway project in Korea.
- Advised a Korean company on acquisition financing for construction equipment companies in the US and other regions.
- Advised a Korean company on acquisition financing for a power equipment company in Europe.
- Advised a Korean construction company with respect to a petrochemical project in Venezuela.
Representative Activitiesshow
Awards
- Highly Regarded, IFLR1000 (Delinian, 2023-2024)
- Leading Lawyer, Asialaw Leading Lawyers: Banking and Finance (Delinian, 2023-2024)
- Highly Regarded, IFLR1000 (Edition 32) (Euromoney, 2022)
- Leading Lawyer, Asialaw Leading Lawyers: Banking and Finance (Euromoney, 2021-2022)
- Leading Lawyer, Who’s Who Legal: Korea, Project Finance (Who’s Who Legal, 2020-2022)
- Highly Regarded, IFLR1000 (Euromoney, 2018-2022)
- Leading Lawyer, IFLR1000 (Euromoney, 2016-2017)
- Expert Guides: Banking, Finance & Transactional Law (Expert Guides, 2016, 2020)
Education
Columbia University School of Law (LL.M., 1987)
Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (1981)
Graduate School Law, Seoul National University (LL.M., 1979)
College of Law, Seoul National University (LL.B., 1977)
Qualifications
Admitted to bar, Korea, 1981; New York, 1988
Languages
Korean and English
Insights
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Recognitions
“Outstanding” in All 24 Categories and 65 “Leading Lawyers” – asialaw 2024
2024.09.12 -
Recognitions
Kim & Chang Ranked “Tier 1” in All Eight Practice Areas – IFLR1000 (2024)
2024.09.12 -
Recognitions
“Outstanding” in All 24 Categories and 62 “Leading Lawyers” – asialaw 2023/24
2023.09.15 -
Recognitions
“Outstanding” in All 24 Categories and 62 “Leading Lawyers” – asialaw 2023/24
2023.09.15 -
Recognitions
Kim & Chang Ranked “Tier 1” in All Eight Practice Areas – IFLR1000 (33rd edition)
2023.07.27 -
Recognitions
“Outstanding” in All 24 Categories and 64 “Leading Lawyers” - asialaw Profiles & asialaw Leading Lawyers 2022/2023
2022.09.14