Foreign Attorney
Donghee Lucia HONG
Acquisition Finance
Expertise
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Donghee Lucia Hong is a foreign attorney in the firm's Banking and Finance Practice Group. She specializes in acquisition finance, project finance, outbound investment, capital markets, and general banking. Prior to joining Lee & Ko, she practiced at a leading global law firm where she advised on various international transactions, arbitration and dispute cases.
Representative Cases
- Advised on syndicated secured term facilities transactions for the development of the two data centers located in Seoul, Korea, and subsequent amendments of contractual terms, accessions, and establishment of additional collaterals.
- Advised on senior secured term loan facility transactions (i) involving a PFV borrower and lenders from multiple jurisdictions for the development of a logistics center located in Incheon, Korea, and refinancing of existing project finance loan and (ii) for development of logistics center located in Korea and development of cold storage warehouse located in Korea.
- Advised on the financing of an unsecured term loan credit facility involving the Korean trust-type fund borrower as a part of the refinancing of the hotel located in Jongno-gu, Seoul.
- Advised on refinancing of the mezzanine financing across multi-jurisdictions involving the property located in London (and subsequent purchase of loan receivables and enforcement process), refinancing of the transactions involving an office building located in Germany (and subsequent enforcement process and investment exit) and a residential complex located in California, USA, and refinancing of the existing facilities in connection with the office building located in Jung-gu, Seoul.
- Advised on acquisition financing transactions involving a Korean SPV and a private equity fund incorporated in the Cayman Islands to acquire shares of a Korean 3D measurement solution provider.
- Advised on investment in project financing loans for real estate development projects and value-add typed real estate mortgage loans through an institutional private equity fund and various SPCs at the lower level.
- Advised on outbound investment transactions involving assets such as logistics center located in the USA including reviewing investment structure and relevant agreements (JVA, IA, SPA, loan agreements, leases, etc.) and assisting with transaction closing.
- Advised on domestic investment, financing, and development transactions involving assets such as logistics/distribution centers, warehouse assets, data centers, and multiple complex located in Korea through domestic funds.
- Advised on the purchase of shares of a cold chain solutions provider incorporated in the Cayman Islands which in turn owns the warehouse facility located in Pyeongtaek and Incheon, Korea.
- Advised a global investment firm based in Singapore on the purchase of equity interest in the Singaporean SPV which owns the Korean PFV holding the development site located in Anseong, Korea (including reviewing legal DD report, transaction agreements, and corporate documents, etc.).
- Advised a global investment management company on investment in private equity funds which jointly acquire and develop, through a Korean SPC, certain LNG cold energy-fueled mixed-use warehouse asset located in Busan, Korea, and subsequent transactions involving transfer of the shares of such fund and execution of additional foreign investment.
- Advised on a potential dispute among shareholders of a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company and subsequent investment and licensing transactions with a Korean biomedical company.
- Advised on securitized commercial real estate loan defaults (a part of such loan receivables being held by the Korean investment trust managed by the client) and analyzed legal implications and consequences arising from such default and set up action plans in recovery/restructuring following thereafter.
Education
| 2017 | University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis - J.D. |
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| 2013 | New York University, New York - B.A. in Politics |
Work Experience
| 2021-Present | Lee & Ko |
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| 2020-2021 | CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP, Hong Kong |
| 2019-2020 | PVH Asia Ltd., Hong Kong |
| 2018 | Rouse Consultancy, Shanghai, China |
Languages
| Korean, English and Chinese |
