Kim & Chang

Financing; Project Finance; Capital Markets; Banking; Japan; Ship Finance

Sang Jin Ahn is an attorney at Kim & Chang who specializes in the Financing, Project Finance, Capital Markets, Banking and Japan Practices.

Throughout his career of over 25 years at Kim & Chang, Mr. Ahn has acquired extensive experience in representing top Korean, Japanese and other international corporations on a wide range of domestic and cross-border transactions and regulatory matters, including banking, project financing, structured financing, ECA financing, reverse factoring and acquisition financing matters, as well as M&A of financial institutions and acquisition of real estate.

Mr. Ahn has authored various publications, such as “Looking over the Governing Law of Receivable Transfer,” “Shipping Finance Review 2011/12: Korea section” and “Cash Pooling and Insolvency.” He was named “Lawyer of the Year” in 2014 and “Leading Lawyer” in 2020 by Legal Times, a leading legal magazine in Korea. From 2019 until 2024, he was recognized as an outstanding lawyer in the banking sector by Who’s Who Legal, a leading legal directory based in the United Kingdom. From 2022 until 2024, he also received a Client Choice Award - Banking from Lexology, a leading legal directory based in the United Kingdom.

Korean, English and Japanese

Admitted to bar, Korea, 1998

Seoul National University (Advanced Management Program, 2019) University of California Hastings College of the Law (LL.M., 2005) Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (1998) Seoul National University (LL.B., 1996)