JoonBeom Pae

Clients value JoonBeom Pae’s creative, solution driven approach and deep experience in advising private fund sponsors on structuring and operating a wide range of funds, including credit, direct lending, buy-out and infrastructure funds. He focuses primarily on advising private funds sponsors and investors on fund formation and investments. JoonBeom works closely with his clients to achieve their commercial goals while navigating complex legal and business challenges.

JoonBeom also advises sovereign wealth funds, large insurance companies, and other financial institutions on tax matters unique to these investors, drawing on his extensive experience with US trade and business issues, commercial activities, unrelated business taxable income, and withholding concerns. He regularly advises on implementing treaty-based, levered blocker, or guideline-based structures, as well as rated feeders.

As a seasoned partnership tax lawyer, JoonBeom frequently advises on M&A transactions involving pass-through entities. He also has significant experience in tax credit transfers, having led several groundbreaking transactions for a leading private equity sponsor and one of the largest utility companies in the United States, as well as advising on tax and other corporate matters for a renewable energy company.