Chambers Review
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Banking & Finance: Domestic Firms - South Korea
What the Team is Known For
Kim & Chang's banking team maintains its reputation as a market-leading legal team in South Korea, with the capacity to act on all aspects of banking and finance transactions, including project finance, shipping finance and acquisition finance. The firm houses experts in a range of areas, including practitioners with previous experience in the Financial Supervisory Service. It provides advice to a range of financial institutions, including investment banks, private equity funds and asset management companies.
Strengths
Kim & Chang gives personalised responses to customer needs.
Kim & Chang has abundant work experience, knowledge, awareness of the latest trends and provides team-based response, legal advice and professional guidance.
Work Highlights
Kim & Chang advised MBK Partners on the KRW900 billion acquisition
financing of a Korean pharmaceutical distribution company.
Notable practitioners
Yoon Hi Sun has a broad practice that spans project finance, acquisition finance, and shipping finance and refinance transactions. He serves a wide range of clients including banking institutions, investment banks, private equity funds, export credit agencies and financial advisers.
He is an expert in the field of domestic and foreign ship finance.
He is very active and often handles work on behalf of borrower-side sponsors.
He has a very high level of expertise and gives a quick response.