Project Finance

"They are well aware of customer's needs and intention. Outputs are accurate and usually meet our timelines."

- Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific

Overview

BKL’s Finance Group provides top-tier project finance legal advisory services in Korea, leveraging its high level of expertise and know-how cultivated through extensive experience.

BKL’s Finance Group proposes transaction structures suitable for the needs of each stakeholder, including developers, constructors, arrangers, lenders, and sponsors, in relation to a wide range of projects such as energy, infrastructure, and real estate development, and drive these transactions forward.

BKL’s Finance Group provides various advisory services from the perspectives of investors, constructors, ECAs, or lenders, not only for projects conducted domestically but also for those abroad carried out by domestic construction companies or power generation subsidiaries, as well as for projects involving ECAs such as the Export-Import Bank of Korea and the Korea Trade Insurance Corporation.

BKL’s Finance Group is recognized by globally renowned legal media outlets such as Chambers, IFLR, Legal 500, and ALB as a leading law firm in the project finance sector.
 

Key Services

Advise on optimal transaction structures
Draft, review and negotiate project finance documentation
Assist clients with deal closings and issue legal opinions
Work with international counsel in cross-border deals
Provide optimal solutions to tax issues in close collaboration with BKL’s Tax Group
Advise on and assist with regulatory filings and permits

Representative Cases

Advised on a senior construction loan financing for 1568 Broadway
Advised on a construction loan financing for the Nashville Starwood Hotel development project in Tennessee
Advised on a construction loan financing for One Project, a residential-commercial development project in Toronto
Advised on the financing of the NineOne Hannam luxury residential development project in Seoul
Advised on Shinhan REITs Management’s financing of the Pangyo Alphadom City 6-4 multi-use development project
Advised Mirae Asset Securities on the financing of a development project in Pyeongtaek City and the procurement of related funds from Chinese investors
Advised KB Investment & Securities on the refinancing of a mixed-use development project in Namyangju City
Advised IM Investment & Securities on the financing of a large office building project in Donuimun New Town in Seoul
Advised on the refinancing of a residential facility development project in Victoria, Australia
Advised Leading Investment Securities on the financing of an apartment complex development project in Uiwang City
Advised HMC Investment & Securities on the financing of a mixed-use development project in Ansan City
Advised Kyobo Securities on the financing of a mixed-use business complex development project in Gwnaggyo City
Advised investors on a loan to invest in anStonepeak, operator of a Texas natural gas midstream project
Advised Hana Alternative Investment Asset Management on the financing of a power plant project in Texas
Advised on the financing of Korea Southern Power’s 38MW solar power generation project in Chile
Advised the Export-Import Bank of Korea on the financing of the Fujeij IPP wind power project in Jordan
Advised the Export-Import Bank of Korea and other lenders on the financing for the Barakah nuclear power project in UAE
Advised Hanwha Q Cells Korea on the financing of a solar power generation project in the Philippines
Advised Korea Southern Power’s financing of and investment into the Yeongnam LNG combined cycle power plant
Advised on Hanwha Asset Management’s senior loan financing for a car park PPP project in Chicago