Kim & Chang

Labor & Employment; Financing; Banking; Structured Finance

Hoin Lee is a senior foreign attorney at Kim & Chang, with expertise on labor and employment law issues. Mr. Lee also has extensive experience in finance matters (both regulatory and transactional).

Mr. Lee advises major private and not-for-profit employers on all aspects of employment and labor-related matters, including restructuring programs and early retirement plans, employment counseling, labor-management relations, collective bargaining negotiations and strategy, labor-related issues in M&A, crisis management, and business transfers and acquisitions.

Mr. Lee also has extensive experience advising banks and other financial institutions on banking and financial regulatory matters and litigations. He has represented a number of foreign and domestic clients in Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) investigations and white collar crime cases, involving insider trading, market manipulation, breach of fiduciary duty and related issues. His expertise also covers securitizations of various types of financial assets.

Prior to joining Kim & Chang, Mr. Lee worked at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in its New York and Hong Kong offices.

Mr. Lee has been consistently recognized as a leading individual in his practice areas, including as one of the top tier practitioners in securitization by both Chambers Global and Chambers Asia-Pacific from 2017 to 2020, a leading lawyer in banking & finance and labour & employment by Asialaw Leading Lawyers 2017 and 2018, and an elite practitioner in capital markets by Asia Leading Lawyers 2020 and 2021.

Mr. Lee earned an LL.B. from Seoul National University College of Law in 1991, and his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 2000. He is admitted to the New York bar.

Korean and English

Admitted to bar, New York, 2001

New York University School of Law (J.D., 2000) Seoul National University (LL.B., 1991)