Senior Foreign Attorney
Wooseok CHOI
Outbound Investment
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Wooseok Choi is a partner in Lee & Ko's Banking & Finance Group. He specializes in project finance, energy & infrastructure, real estate and privatge fund investments with a particular emphasis on cross-border and overseas investment transactions. He has also represented foreign clients in various Korean financial regulatory issues. He is admitted at the New York State Bar.
Representative Cases
- [Energy / Infrastructure Projects]
- Acquisition of Vantage Data Centers platform (2020)
- Convertible Note Investment to U.S JFK Airport Expansion (2019-Present)
- Canada Coastal GasLink Pipeline equity co-investment (2019)
- U.S Utopia Pipeline Acquisition Financing (2019)
- U.S. Tallgrass Energy taking private merger - equity co-investment (2019)
- Canada Ontario ONroute Services Centres - equity and mezzanine investments (2019)
- Holdco Loan Financing in UK. Heathrow Airport (2019)
- Chile Mejillones LNG Terminal Acquisition Financing (2019)
- UK Cadent gas distribution network equity co-investment (2019)
- Acquisition of Dunkirk LNG terminal in France and acquisition finance (2018)
- Texas Brazos Midstream Project equity co-ionvestment (2018)
- UK Welcome Break Motorway Services Station equity investments (2017, 2018)
- Turkey Mersin Integrated Health Campus BLT Project (2017)
- UK High Speed 1 Rail Infrastructure Project Mezzanine Investment (2017)
- Turkey Gaziantep Integrated Health Campus BLT Project (2017)
- New York Cricket Valley senior loan refinancing (2016)
- Newark Energy Center senior loan refinancing (2016)
- [Real Estate]
- U.S. Boston, Echelon Seaport Boston C-mezz loan (2019)
- U.S. San Jose, eBay office purchase (2018)
- France Saint-Denis Balthazar office building purchase (2018)
- U.S. Washington, Advanta Microsoft office mezz loan financing (2018)
- U.S. California, Bacara Resort & Spa mezz loan financing (2017)
- U.S. New York, 280 Park Avenue mezz loan financing (2017)
- U.S. Fedex logistics facilities mezz loan financing (2017)
- U.S New York, Westin Time Square B-Note (2017)
- U.S 200 Liberty Street senior loan financing (2017)
- France 115 Montmartre office building purchase (2016)
- Germany Hambrug, acquisition of H&M global distribution centers (2015)
- U.S. logistics facilities portfolio co-investment with Global Logistics Properties (2015)
- Japan Shibuya, Adidas flagship store commercial building purchase (2015)
- Korea, Jongno Place purchase (2015)
- [Private Fund / SMA / JV]
- Advise an institutional investor to establish a platform for Europe infrastructure mezz investments
- Advise an institutional investor to establish a SMA for investments in Canada and North America PPP & IPP projects
- Regularly advise NPS, KIC, POBA, SEMA, Korea Post and other reputable institutional investors for LP investments in foreign private funds and formation of JV/SMA with foreign GPs
Education
| 2010 | Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, J.D. |
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| 2003 | Seoul National University B.A. in Economics |
Work Experience
| 2015-Present | Lee & Ko |
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| 2010-2014 | LG Electronics Inc., Legal Department |
| 2005-2007 | Korea Development Bank, Corporate Restructuring Department |
| 2002-2004 | Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation, Bank Risk Management Department |
Languages
| English and Korean |
