Senior Foreign Attorney
TEL |
+82-2-772-5901 |
E-MAIL |
juyoung.im@leeko.com |
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Ju-Young Susie Im is a senior foreign attorney in the Banking & Finance Group with her focus areas in Asset Management, Banking and Real Estate. She leads inbound and outbound transactions mainly driven by banks, financial institutions including asset management companies and securities companies and other institutional investors such as sovereign pension funds.
In the past few years, she has handled many number of complex real estate transactions for Korean investors with various types of investment targets including data centers, logistics centers, hotels, shopping centers, student housing and prime office buildings located across US and Europe as well as assisting foreign investors with their investments into Korea in many different real estate sectors including office buildings, logistics centers, hotels and data centers.
She is often being sought after as foreign lenders’ legal counsel on inbound financing transactions and she regularly advises on high profile acquisition financing deals as global PE’s counsel or as lender’s counsel.
Ms. Im received a combined bachelor’s degree in Arts and Law from The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia in 2004 and a master’s degree in Law from the same university in 2010.
Ms. Im was admitted to the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory and the High Court of Australia in 2005.
Education
2010 |
The Australian National University Masters in Law |
2005 |
The Australian National University Legal Workshop |
2004 |
The Australian National University Bachelor of Laws / Bachelor of Arts |
Work Experience
2013-Present |
Lee & Ko |
2010-2013 |
Jipyong Jisung |
2007-2009 |
Jaein |
2007 |
Kim & Co |
2005-2007 |
Ernst & Young Han Young |
2005 |
Department of Public Prosecutions Office (ACT) |
Expertise
Outbound Investment |
Capital Markets |
Banking & Financial Holding Companies |
Acquisition Finance |
Project Finance & Infrastructure |
Ship · Aviation Finance |
Real Estate |
Admissions
Admitted to the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory and the High Court of Australia(2005) |
Languages
Publications / Presentations / ETC
- Panel Speaker on “Real Estate: Global Equity & Debt Real Estate Investment” at 27th International Korean Lawyers Conference
- Implementation of mining taxes on profits derived from Australian mining operations (Hankyung Business, June, 2012)
- Tobacco regulation and the implication of Investor-State Dispute (Hankyung Business, February, 2012)