Partner
Chulho KWON
Capital Markets Compliance
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Chul Ho Kwon is a partner in the Securities & Capital Markets Group. He has advised clients, including asset managers, issuers and underwriters among others, on a wide variety of capital markets/securities transactions and related regulatory compliance issues.
Mr. Kwon has increasingly focused his practice on the areas of private equity funds, collective investment arrangements, asset management, M&As with fund involvement and securities regulations. He has advised several domestic and overseas funds on a variety of matters from their formation and throughout operational and unwinding phases. He has also successfully handled the registrations of various funds and offshore asset management and advisory companies to make it possible for them to access the Korean market and Korean investors.
Mr. Kwon has increasingly focused his practice on the areas of private equity funds, collective investment arrangements, asset management, M&As with fund involvement and securities regulations. He has advised several domestic and overseas funds on a variety of matters from their formation and throughout operational and unwinding phases. He has also successfully handled the registrations of various funds and offshore asset management and advisory companies to make it possible for them to access the Korean market and Korean investors.
Representative Cases
- [Collective Investment]
- Investment in Starfield Goyang (IGIS Asset)
- Advice regarding Foreign Special Asset Fund (Mirae Asset Global, Shinhan BNPP etc.)
- Investments in Solar PV farms (KB asset management)
- Private equity and other alternative investment funds (NPS etc.)
- [Private Equity Fund]
- Acquisition of 3 power generation plant assets of SK E&S (Hana Daetoo Securities)
- Advice for the establishment, governance and management of Private Equity Fund, (STIC Investment, IBK, Unison Capital, Woori PE, KTB PE, Corstone, Shinhan Capital, Daewoo Securities, Shinyoung Securit
- Acquisition of ArcelorMittal Mining Canada Inc. interests (EQ Partners & POSCO Capital)
- Global Star Korea Fund
- [FSCMA Compliance]
- Financial investment business company compliance
- Cross-border initial public offerings (IPOs)
- [Overseas Investment]
- Aberdeen Global Infrastructure Partners II LP (Guernsey Partnership)
- Capital Dynamics Global Solar Energy Fund LP (Cayman Islands Partnership)
- Lloyds Bank Global Infrastructure Partners LP (Jersey partnership)
- Overseas fund registration
Education
| 2012 | UCLA School of Law - LL.M. |
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| 2006 | Judicial Research & Training Institute, Supreme Court of Korea |
| 1999 | College of Law, Seoul National University - LL.B. |
Admissions & Qualifications
| 2006 | Admitted to the Korean Bar |
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| 2014 | Admitted to the New York State Bar |
Languages
| Korean and English |
Publications / Presentations / ETC
- Je Won Lee & Chul- Ho Kwon, 'Protection of the Principal Amount and Exit Strategies for Minority Investors', BFL (2014.9)
