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Kim & Chang Offices
39 SAJIK-RO 8-GIL
JONGNO-GU
SEOUL 03170
South Korea
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Sang Hwan Lee
Work Department
Banking; Derivatives; Non-Bank Financial Companies; Structured Finance; Acquisition Finance; Fintech & IT Compliance
Career
Sang Hwan Lee is a senior attorney at Kim & Chang’s Finance & Capital Markets Department.
Recognized as one of the premier finance lawyers in Korea, Mr. Lee practices in a wide range of areas related to finance, with a focus on banking, securities laws and regulations, and mergers and acquisitions of financial institutions. He also has extensive experience advising clients in transactions and disputes involving financial derivatives, structured finance and corporate finance matters. As a member of the Japan Practice at the firm, Mr. Lee also advises a broad range of Japanese financial institutions.
Mr. Lee’s representative matters in recent years include advising on major M&As and restructurings of domestic banks and post-transaction integration, disputes related to financial derivatives products, and financial institutions’ information leakage cases. He also has represented financial institutions investigated by the Financial Supervisory Service, the Fair Trade Commission and the Prosecutors’ Office.
Mr. Lee has acted as an outside advisor to the Ministry of Finance and Economy as a member of the ministry’s Financial Industry Deliberation Committee. He was also a member of the ministry’s Task Force for Improvement of Credit Information System.
He also worked as a foreign visiting attorney at Matsuo & Kosugi in Tokyo in 1990 and Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York in 1993.
Mr. Lee has regularly authored various publications, including the “Banking Regulation Review (1st-5th Edition): Korea chapter” (Law Business Research, 2010-2014) and “Getting the Deal Through – Banking Regulation (1st-6th Edition): Korea chapter” (Law Business Research, 2008-2015). He also co-authored the “IFLR February 2012 – Basel III Guide 2012: Korea chapter” (IFLR, 2012) and the “Guide to Lending and Taking Security in Asia (2nd-3rd Edition): Korea chapter” (Herbert Smith, 2010 & 2014).
Mr. Lee received an LL.M. from Cornell Law School in 1993 and an LL.B. from Seoul National University College of Law in 1982. Mr. Lee graduated from the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea in 1984 and is admitted to the New York bar and the Korea bar.
Languages
Korean, English and Japanese
Memberships
Admitted to bar, Korea, 1984; New York, 1997
Education
Cornell Law School, New York (LL.M., 1993)
Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (1984)
College of Law, Seoul National University (LL.B., 1982)
Lawyer Rankings
South Korea > Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms
Kim & Chang is praised for combining ‘reliable services on the financial regulatory front’, with a fintech team housing ‘more lawyers and other professionals with science or engineering backgrounds than any other law firm’s team’. Bumkyu Sung is a key contact for internal investigations of financial institutions conducting business in Korea. Foreign attorney Ik Hwan Cho and Oh Hyun Kwon are both equipped to advise on securities regulation, while fintech specialist Joon Young Kim is well versed in legal issues relating to blockchain and cloud computing. IT compliance specialist Jung Min Lee is also recommended. Kye Sung Chung and Sang Hwan Lee jointly lead the practice.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition: local firms
- Banking and finance: local firms
- Capital markets: local firms
- Corporate and M&A: local firms
- Dispute resolution: local firms
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms
- Insurance: local firms
- Intellectual property: local firms
- International arbitration
- Labour and employment: local firms
- Projects and energy: local firms
- Real estate: local firms
- Regulatory: compliance and investigations: local firms
- Shipping: local firms
- Tax: local firms
- TMT: local firms