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Young Joon (“YJ”) Kim is a Milbank partner, currently resident in its Hong Kong office. Having joined the Firm in 1983, he has previously served in the Firm’s offices both in New York and Tokyo, where he was the managing partner for 1997-2003. YJ’s experience includes a variety of international corporate and financing transactions, including project finance, cross-border M&A and acquisition finance transactions, with a particular emphasis on Korean corporate transactions. He recently represented Lead lenders KEXIM, Woori Bank and HSBC in the US$180 million term loan financing of KEPCOSIL (KEPCO Shanxi International Limited) for its acquisition of 34% shareholding in a sino-foreign joint venture purchasing interests in more than a dozen power plants and coal mines located throughout Shanxi, China, KEPCO’s biggest foreign investment in the power sector. He also recently represented Hynix Semiconductor Inc in the development of its US$2 billion 8" and 12" wafer fabrication facility project in China and the related $1 billion project financing. This was one of China’s largest-ever limited recourse transactions and one of the first for a wholly foreign-owned semiconductor chip manufacturing plant in China to have been financed predominantly by Chinese banks. Other recent representations include: Multiple ECAs, including KEXIM, on the project financing of a laterite nickel mine project in Madagascar; KEXIM, JBIC, NEXI, OPIC, and COFACE as lenders/guarantors to the US$4.7 billion, 6.9 million tons per annum liquid natural gas facility in Yemen and the related natural gas pipeline, storage and loading facilities for the project; Multiple ECAs, S.K. Corp, Hunt Oil and Repsol YPF, in developing an LNG train and related facilities in Peru. DC Chemical Company and One Equity Partners in their global acquisition of Phelps Dodge Corporation’s worldwide carbon black operations; the leveraged finance syndicate for acquisition by CVC of WiniaMando; Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. in its investment in/with Woori Finance Holdings; Hyundai Petrochemical in its disposition of certain infrastructure assets to Sithe Energy and Vivendi SA; leveraged finance syndicates proposing to finance acquisition of major Korean companies in international auctions; Goldman Sachs in its first single-property acquisition and securitization of a class-A commercial building in Japan; Texaco and LG Caltex in their acquisition and limited-recourse financing of two power generation facilities acquired from Korea Electric Power Corporation; JPMorgan Partners in its investments in Korea; Olympus Capital in its investments in Japan; Singapore Telecom in its proposed acquisition of telephone directory and data processing companies in Korea; Samsung Electronics in the financing of its DRAM fabrication facilities in Austin, Texas; and Morgan Stanley as international underwriters in the Yankee bond offerings by Korea Telecom. YJ Kim graduated from Yale University, B.A. and Harvard Law School, J.D. He is a member of the New York State Bar and has been a regular speaker at conferences sponsored by Euromoney, Asia Law Journal, Asia Venture Forum, IIR, Asian Wall Street Journal and others, on topics including M&A and structured finance. He is listed in Chambers Global as a leading corporate lawyer active in Korea and was voted by Euromoney International Legal Guide as one of the “Leading Banking/Corporate Lawyers of the World”.
Young Joon (“YJ”) Kim is a Milbank partner, currently resident in its Hong Kong office. Having joined the Firm in 1983, he has previously served in the Firm’s offices both in New York and Tokyo, where he was the managing partner for 1997-2003.
YJ’s experience includes a variety of international corporate and financing transactions, including project finance, cross-border M&A and acquisition finance transactions, with a particular emphasis on Korean corporate transactions.
He recently represented Lead lenders KEXIM, Woori Bank and HSBC in the US$180 million term loan financing of KEPCOSIL (KEPCO Shanxi International Limited) for its acquisition of 34% shareholding in a sino-foreign joint venture purchasing interests in more than a dozen power plants and coal mines located throughout Shanxi, China, KEPCO’s biggest foreign investment in the power sector. He also recently represented Hynix Semiconductor Inc in the development of its US$2 billion 8" and 12" wafer fabrication facility project in China and the related $1 billion project financing. This was one of China’s largest-ever limited recourse transactions and one of the first for a wholly foreign-owned semiconductor chip manufacturing plant in China to have been financed predominantly by Chinese banks.
Other recent representations include: Multiple ECAs, including KEXIM, on the project financing of a laterite nickel mine project in Madagascar; KEXIM, JBIC, NEXI, OPIC, and COFACE as lenders/guarantors to the US$4.7 billion, 6.9 million tons per annum liquid natural gas facility in Yemen and the related natural gas pipeline, storage and loading facilities for the project; Multiple ECAs, S.K. Corp, Hunt Oil and Repsol YPF, in developing an LNG train and related facilities in Peru. DC Chemical Company and One Equity Partners in their global acquisition of Phelps Dodge Corporation’s worldwide carbon black operations; the leveraged finance syndicate for acquisition by CVC of WiniaMando; Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. in its investment in/with Woori Finance Holdings; Hyundai Petrochemical in its disposition of certain infrastructure assets to Sithe Energy and Vivendi SA; leveraged finance syndicates proposing to finance acquisition of major Korean companies in international auctions; Goldman Sachs in its first single-property acquisition and securitization of a class-A commercial building in Japan; Texaco and LG Caltex in their acquisition and limited-recourse financing of two power generation facilities acquired from Korea Electric Power Corporation; JPMorgan Partners in its investments in Korea; Olympus Capital in its investments in Japan; Singapore Telecom in its proposed acquisition of telephone directory and data processing companies in Korea; Samsung Electronics in the financing of its DRAM fabrication facilities in Austin, Texas; and Morgan Stanley as international underwriters in the Yankee bond offerings by Korea Telecom.
YJ Kim graduated from Yale University, B.A. and Harvard Law School, J.D. He is a member of the New York State Bar and has been a regular speaker at conferences sponsored by Euromoney, Asia Law Journal, Asia Venture Forum, IIR, Asian Wall Street Journal and others, on topics including M&A and structured finance. He is listed in Chambers Global as a leading corporate lawyer active in Korea and was voted by Euromoney International Legal Guide as one of the “Leading Banking/Corporate Lawyers of the World”.
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