Foreign Attorney
Hae Yoon CHUNG
Project Finance & Infrastructure
Expertise
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As a member of Lee Ko's Banking & Finance Group, Hae Yoon Chung advises clients in the areas of both domestic and cross-border project finance, energy and infrastructure projects, and outbound investments. Further, Hae Yoon Chung has represented numerous Korean companies and financial institutions on potential risks associated with economic sanctions programs and export controls enforced by the US, the UN and the EU.
Representative Cases
- [Project Financing]
- Acting as lead counsel to an onshore wind farm project (74MW) financing in Sweden (Project Gubbaberget).
- Acting as lenders counsel to development and financing of an offshore wind farm project (99MW) in Jeonnam (Jeonnam 1 Offshore Wind Farm Project)
- Acting as lenders counsel to financing of a solar farm project (41MW) in Seosan using a HoldCo structure
- [Energy]
- Advising Stonepeak with respect to its first Korean solar farm development, a separate Shinan-gun solar farm and its market entry into the Korean offshore wind farm development market.
- Advising Northland Power with respect to their ongoing investments in Korean offshore wind farm developments.
- Advising foreign energy companies with respect to the initial entry into the Korean market and ongoing sourcing and joint development of renewable projects in Korea.
- [Outbound Investment]
- Outbound equity investment in portfolio of battery energy storage system (BESS) in UK
- Outbound investment in Upper Trishuli-1 Hydroelectric Power Plant (216MW) in Nepal
- LP investments into numerous limited partnership vehicles such as Brookfield Global Transition Fund GP, L.P., KKR Diversified Core Infrastructure Fund SCSp, EIG Condor Co-Investment, L.P., etc.
- [Economic Sanctions / Export Controls]
- Advising numerous export companies and government-owned companies on risk related to sanctions or export controls
Education
| 2018 | University of Illinois College of Law – J.D (Cum Laude) |
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| 2011 | New York University – B.A. in Economics |
Work Experience
| 2021-Present | Lee & Ko |
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| 2019-2021 | Jipyong LLC |
| 2018-2019 | The Hunt Law Group, LLC (Chicago, IL) |
| 2012-2014 | Samsung C&T |
Admissions & Qualifications
| 2018 | Admitted to the Illinois State Bar |
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| 2020 | Admitted to the New York State Bar |
Languages
| Korean and English |
Publications / Presentations / ETC
- “Export Control Policies in U.S. – ROK Relations” (The National Bureau of Asian Research, 2024)
