Geon Ho Kim
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025
Band 4 : Projects & Energy
Email address
[email protected]Contact number
+82-2-3703-1508Share profile
Band 4
About
Provided by Geon Ho Kim
Practice Areas
Financing, Project Finance, Structured Finance, Banking, Japan, Insolvency & Restructuring, and North Korea Investment & Consulting.
Career
Geon Ho Kim, an attorney at Kim & Chang, provides legal advice on project finance, acquisition financing, overseas project development, and overseas investment. His main clients are financial institutions including domestic and overseas banks, insurance companies, pension funds, asset management companies, private equity funds, as well as construction companies and energy-related companies. Mr. Kim advises various transaction parties, including borrowers, sponsors, financial investors, and lenders, on various legal issues in all phases of the project, from project development, bidding, negotiations with the government, facility construction and operation, to project termination.
Professional Memberships
Korean Bar.
Publications
Chambers Global Practice Guides - Project Finance: Korea Chapter - Law & Practice (Co-author, Chambers and Partners, 2020, 2023); Chambers Global Practice Guides - Project Finance (Edition 1, 2): Korea Chapter - Law & Practice (Co-author, Chambers and Partners, 2019).
Personal
School of Law, University of California, Berkeley (LL.M., 2012);
Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (2005);
Department of International Relations, Seoul National University (B.A., 2001).
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Kim Geon Ho focuses on offering advice on various project financing mandates, and has been particularly active in the financings of overseas solar photovoltaic generation and expressway construction projects. He typically works with domestic banks and asset management firms.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He is a nice and knowledgeable practitioner."
"He is a nice and knowledgeable practitioner."