Jipyong LLC

Corporate; Real Estate Finance; Project Finance; Structured Finance & Derivatives; Acquisition Financing; Ship & Aircraft Finance; Financial Regulation; Vietnam; Japan; UK / Germany / Europe; Central & South America

Partner

Ms. Kang started her career as a litigation lawyer in 1998, maintaining a near 100% winning record for 2 years in litigations involving securities, finance, and maritime and insurance matters, including before the Supreme Court of Korea. She subsequently transitioned to transactional work and has since demonstrated outstanding skills as a corporate and finance lawyer. She was named a “Leading Lawyer” by the IFLR in 2012, and from 2017 to the present.

Ms. Kang has advised numerous domestic and overseas financial institutions on asset-backed securitizations (ABS, ABL and ABCP) of real estate, securities and bonds using a wide range of structures. She has also represented major domestic and overseas banks, securities firms and asset managers on legal issues relating to diverse securities, financial and derivative products, and domestic and overseas real investment businesses. She is a renowned expert in acquisition financing, project financing and syndicated loans for real estate development projects in and outside Korea, offshore lending by financial institutions and ship financing. She also has extensive experience in the establishment and operation of REITs and real estate funds.

Ms. Kang holds a B.A. in Politics from Seoul National University and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.

She is a member of the Korean Bar.

Korean, English and Japanese

Admitted to bar, Korea, 1998

Harvard Law School (LL.M., 2003)Kyung Hee University (LL.M., 2002)Seoul National University (B.A. in Politics, 1994)