Bates Wells

Charity & Social Enterprise; Development Finance

Sung-Hyui Park is a Partner in the Charity and Social Enterprise team, and the Co-Lead of Development Finance at Bates Wells. She works with investors, charities, non-profits and mission-driven businesses seeking positive social or environmental impact.

Her practice focuses on equitable and innovative funding structures across impact investment and international financing, including a wide range of debt, equity, quasi-equity and blended finance arrangements.

Sung-Hyui also advises major charities, NGOs and foundations on charity law, governance, regulatory matters and commercial arrangements. She additionally works with purposeful businesses, including B Corps and social enterprises, to integrate mission and purpose into their structures and operations.

Partner, Bates Wells, 2022

Joined Bates Wells, 2016

Secondment, GSO Capital Partners LP, 2015

Secondment, EMEA Loan Origination, Citigroup, 2010

Admitted as a solicitor, 2008

Secondment, Clifford Chance Amsterdam, 2007

Trainee Solicitor, Clifford Chance LLP, 2006

Board member of the Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers’ (GAIL) regional board for the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.

Core team member for the International Women in Law Project, which published a toolkit for women legal professionals globally to support them in in overcoming their key challenges to progression and opportunity in their legal careers.

Co-founder and a trustee of the Social Mission Institute, a charity which seeks to support the rehabilitation of North Korean refugees within the UK.

BPP Law School, Legal Practice Course, 2006

London School of Economics and Political Science, LLB Law (First Class), 2005