Acquisition Finance Practice Group constitutes a major component of Lee & Ko’s Banking & Finance Practice Group. With our team of lawyers who are well versed in corporate and M&A transactions, tax and capital markets, we have advised countless foreign and domestic lenders, sponsors, arrangers and borrowers in all types of domestic and cross-border leveraged and acquisition financing and restructuring deals.
Due to the Banking & Finance Practice Group’s involvement in pioneering legal transaction structures for many complex and innovative acquisition financing deals, which are recognized as benchmark deals for the Korean market, Lee & Ko is consistently regarded as the leading law firm for acquisition finance transactions in Korea and has received several awards for innovation.
Major Cases
- Acquisition financing for the Carlyle Group’s Caps Co., Ltd. acquisition
- Acquisition financing for MBK Partners Inc.’s ING Life Insurance acquisition
- LBO financing for the acquisition of Mando Machinery Co., Ltd.
- LBO financing for the acquisition of Haitai Confectionery by JPMorgan Partners and UBS consortium – The IFLR Debt-Equity Deal of the Year
- LBO financing for the acquisition of Mando Climate Control
- LBO financing for the acquisition of Hyundai Petrochemical by LG Chemical and Honam Petrochemical
- LBO financing for the acquisition of Sammi Corporation by Samlim Total Construction
- Financing for the acquisition of Hanaro Telecom by American International Group and Newbridge Capital
- LBO financing for the acquisition of Jindo Corporation by Seyang Shipping
- Refinancing for CJ Corporation in connection with its acquisition of Shin Dong Bang Corporation
- LBO financing for the acquisition of Jinbang Steel by Jinbang Steel Korea
- Refinancing for Honam Petrochemical in connection with its acquisition of KP Chemical
- MBO financing for the acquisition of Fila Korea by officers of Fila Korea
- LBO financing for the acquisition of Haitai Confectionary by the Crown Confectionary Consortium
- LBO financing for the acquisition of Daewoo Heavy Industries & Machinery by Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction
- LBO financing for the acquisition of Hi-Mart by Affinity Equity Partners
- LBO financing for the acquisition of SsangYong Corporation by Morgan Stanley Private Equity
- LBO financing for the acquisition of CJ CableNet
- LBO financing for the acquisition of an Italian company by Daehan Electric Wire
- LBO financing for the acquisition of Fila Global by Fila Korea
- LBO financing for the acquisition of Hi-Mart by Eugene Group
- LBO financing for the acquisition of Korea Express by Kumho Group
- LBO financing for the acquisition of C&M by MBK Partners and Macquarie Korea Opportunities Fund
- LBO financing for the acquisition of Superior Essex by LS Cable
- LBO financing for the acquisition of Starkist Tuna by Dongwon Group
- LBO financing for acquisition of Samwha Crown & Closure Co., Ltd., Korea Aerospace Industries, Ltd., SRS Korea Co., Ltd. and Doosan DST Co., Ltd.
- Debt restructuring of MagnaChip Semiconductor S.A. and MagnaChip Semiconductor Finance Company
- LBO financing for acquisition of Oriental Brewery Co., Ltd. by KKR and Affinity consortium
- Acquisition of shares of Power Technologies Corporation by KB-Glenwood Private Equity Fund
- LBO financing for acquisition of Young Hwa Engineering Co., Ltd. by MBK Partners
- LBO financing for acquisition of Kumho Rent-A-Car Co., Ltd.
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