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Vedder Price Offices
10 Collyer Quay #37 06/10
Ocean Financial Centre, Singapore, 049315
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Ji Woon Kim
Work Department
Global Transportation Finance
Position
Shareholder
Career
In August 2016, Mr. Kim relocated from the New York office to establish the firm’s Singapore office. He represents and advises international and domestic lenders, finance companies, export-credit agencies, borrowers, lessors, lessees, operators, charterers, trustees and others in a variety of equipment finance matters in the transportation industry involving commercial aircraft, business aircraft, helicopters, rolling stock and vessels, and other maritime assets.
Mr. Kim’s aviation experience includes representation of the Export-Import Bank of the United States in cross-border aircraft leasing transactions with airlines and operating lessors throughout the world, including transactions utilizing the capital markets; commercial banks and other lenders in a variety of aviation finance matters, including transactions structured as, or utilizing, back-leveraged financings, cross-border leveraged leases, mortgage financings, warehouses, revolving credit facilities, operating lease financings, sale and leasebacks, asset securitization and capital market financings; and airlines in mortgage financings and hedging transactions.
Mr. Kim’s maritime experience includes representation of commercial banks and other lenders, trustees and others in a variety of maritime finance matters, including transactions structured as, or utilizing, cross-border leveraged leases, mortgage financings, warehouses, revolving credit facilities, export credit agency-–supported financings, bareboat charter financings, sale and leasebacks and capital market financings.
Education
- University of Illinois College of Law, J.D., 2004, cum laude
- University of Chicago, B.A., 1999
Lawyer Rankings
Singapore > Asset finance: foreign firms
Vedder Price has a wealth of experience advising leasing companies and airlines on operating lease transactions across Southeast Asia Pacific as well as Japan, South Korea, and India, counting a large number of well-known lessors as its key clients. Praised for its ‘pragmatic and market-driven approach‘ and leveraging its strong ties with its US offices, the team is well-equipped to advise on English and New York law and on cross-border financing transactions as well as operating lease restructurings for airliners. The team is jointly led by Singapore-based Ji Woon Kim who is ‘armed with global and in-depth knowledge and experience in the aviation industry‘, notably in transactions, financings, JOLCOs, and sales and leasebacks, and Geoffrey Kass
who is based in its Chicago office.