Hanchul Kim is a senior advisor at Lee & Ko for banking, corporate finance, capital markets, cross-border investment financing and other matters.

Mr. Kim has served with distinction in numerous senior executive positions in the banking and finance sector. Having begun his career in the industry in 1978, Mr. Kim has directly experienced and participated in many of the major developments that have changed and shaped Korea's banking and financial system and markets into what they are today.

With his remarkably extensive experience as an executive for the Korea Development Bank ("KDB") and holding high-level management responsibilities for nearly all of the most important facets of banking and financial institution operations (including, among other things, responsibility for capital markets activities, personnel matters, planning and administration and branch management, etc. ) as well as having served as the Chairman and President of the Korea Technology Finance Corporation ("KTFC") from 2014 to 207, Mr. Kim is rightly regarded as one of the leading experts for Korea's banking and finance sector. In addition to serving as a member of the top management of KDB, including serving as the KDB Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Kim's long career at KDB included serving as the manager of both domestic and foreign branches and business operations for the bank (such as KDB Hong Kong and the KDB Singapore branch).

Mr. Kim's executive responsibilities have also included the management of a wide range of cross-border securities issuances and transactions, as well as various foreign-exchange and derivatives deals, and he has vast experience in managing corporate finance and other corporate matters, such as issuances of convertible bonds and handling corporate insolvency, corporate rehabilitation and corporate dissolution & liquidation matters.

During the Asian financial crisis, Mr. Kim participated in the steering committee for recovery on Indonesia debt obligations on behalf of the Korean Government. Mr. Kim also participated in managing/implementing the restructuring of the Korea Development Bank and Korea's external debt.

Some of Mr. Kim's many other accomplishments include: (1) aiding in the development of Korea's capital markets through innovations in corporate bond structures, including asset-backed securities (ABS); and (2) establishing four major corporate restructuring funds in the aftermath of the 1999 financial crisis, including the Han River Fund and the first Korean real estate investment trust company (REITS) in 2001.