YOON&YANG
Yoon & Yang’s Finance Practice offers preeminent legal services related to project financing on all sides of project finance transactions—including lenders, developers, lead managers, and funds—by structuring the optimal financings of various projects for building offices, distribution centers, housing, harbors, roads, and other SOCs.
Our Project Financing practice provides advice on an extensive breadth of projects such as real estate project financing transactions and has also recently offered successful financial advice on large-scale projects for harbors and environmental facilities.

Key Services

  • Advising on the establishment of and change to the optimal project structure
  • Advising on various forms of agreements, including project agreements, concession agreements, and joint venture agreements
  • Creating and establishing project funds
  • Advising on all matters related to financial agreements for projects, including syndicated loans, trust agreements, and fund management agreements
  • Consulting with regulatory authorities (the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Bank of Korea, the Financial Supervisory Service, and others) and advising clients on response measures in the course of implementing a deal
  • Establishing financing structures for real estate, vessel, SOC investment deals
  • Advising on agreements for financing PF transactions, including loan agreements and project agreements


 

Representative Cases

  • Offered financial advice on the purchase transactions of major distribution centers (the Deokpyeong Distribution Center, the Hangdong Distribution Center, the Incheon Distribution Center, the Gimpo Distribution Center, the Seoul Combined Distribution Center, the Bucheon Distribution Center, large-scale distribution center development projects with PF sizes ranging from around KRW 100 billion to 500 billion)
  • Offered financial advice on the purchase transactions of major commercial facilities and department stores (Galleria Department Store, YBM Gangnam Station site development , Lotte Mart, Yeongdeungpo Times Square, SEI Tower, Glass Tower, Gangnam MITAA Tower, HSBC Building, Geohwa Building, Sambu Plaza, Dongtan Center Point Mall, Gangnam P Tower, and others with PF sizes ranging from around KRW 300 billion to 500 billion)
  • Offered financial advice on the development of large-scale apartment complexes and public rental housing (development projects through REITs including the Cheongna District, the Yeongdong District, the Byeollae District, and the Gimpo Hangang District, reconstruction, redevelopment, and development of local housing associations, IGIS Residence REIT, development of welfare facilities, and others with PF sizes ranging from around KRW 300 billion to KRW 500 billion)
  • Offered financial advice on the development and purchase of major hotels (Millennium Hilton Hotel, Banyan Tree Hotel, Stars Hotel, E-Land Group, etc. with PF sizes ranging from around KRW 100 billion to 500 billion)
  • Advised on the development of domestic tourism complexes and the development and purchase of golf clubs (advised on the following transactions: casino development, Dongbusan tourism complex development, K-Water’s sale tourism
  • complex development, Chuncheon Legoland development, Tedin Resort, Woongjin Play City, Sejong CC golf course development, Taean Country Club refinancing and assignment transactions, the golf course fund created by Mirae Asset Global Investments, and others with PF sizes ranging from around KRW 300 billion to 500 billion)
  • Structured and offered financial advice on overseas investments, including those in the U.S., Japan, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa (advised on a condominium development project in New York, U.S., the Times Square remodeling project in New York, U.S., the purchase of a hotel and office in San Jose, U.S., the purchase and mezzanine investment in an office in Japan, an SRF facility investment deal in Japan, the Central Asia Tashkent City/Delta City development projects
  • in Uzbekistan, housing complex development, industrial complex development, and hotel investment in Vietnam, the purchase of an office building in Cambodia, the investment in a hotel in Laos, Myanmar Business Center development, hotel development and eco-friendly energy projects in Bangkok and Pattaya, Thailand, and others with PF sizes ranging from around KRW 300 billion to 1 trillion)
  • Offered financial advice on housing/commercial facility development implemented through trust companies at major sites (KOREIT, KAIT, KORAMCO REITs Management & Trust, Mugunghwa Trust, Shinyoung Real Estate Trust, and others with PF sizes ranging from around KRW 300 billion to 500 billion)
  • Advised on PF related to a group of lenders composed of foreign financial institutions investing in a cruise ship, among others (PF size of around KRW 300 billion)
  • Advised Macquarie Capital on its debt investment in a domestic fuel cell development project
  • Offered refinancing advice related to the operation of major hotels, commercial facilities, and golf clubs
  • Advised a major securities firm and others on their loans to real estate PF projects
  • Advised a major savings bank on its subordinated loans to real estate projects
  • Advised a major power producer on its wind power generation project and related loans;
  • Advised on PF projects that are implemented through PFVs, including the Geoje Gohyeon Port, harbor redevelopment, and Incheon Harbor development projects
  • Advised a group of lenders composed of Korea Eximbank and other major financial institutions on PF related to domestic and foreign vessel construction, vessel sales/purchases, etc.