Ms. Jenny Lee is a foreign attorney at Shin & Kim, specializing in cross-border investments.

She advises foreign investors on inbound investments into Korea as well as Korean investors on outbound investments in real estate and infrastructure assets overseas. Her practice focuses on the structuring, acquisition, and financing of commercial real estate and infrastructure transactions.

She represents global sponsors, asset managers, and financial institutions across the full lifecycle of cross-border transactions, dealing with logistics and industrial assets, data centers, hotels and branded residences, international schools, and office developments.

Development, Acquisition, Sale and Lease

Data Center

• Represented UK investment firm in connection with co-investment in a project financing vehicle (PFV) to develop and operate a hyperscale data center in Korea
• Advised Korean asset management company on the acquisition of project rights and land title in connection with data center development as part of a structural upgrading project under the Industrial Complex Act of Korea

Logistics Center

• Represented a global asset manager in its joint venture investment with a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund in the acquisition of logistics facilities in Bubal District, Icheon

Office Building

• Represented Nuveen Real Estate in its acquisition of Jeongdong Building in the Korean capital’s Jung-gu business district
• Represented the Korean asset management company in its sale of Namsan Green Building in Jung-gu, Seoul
• Advised a foreign embassy on the disposition and leasing of its embassy-owned commercial property

Education - International School

• Advised on a UK–Korea joint venture investment for the development and operation of an international school in Jeju
• Represented a global asset management company in its acquisition of an international school in Korea

Hospitality – Hotels & Resorts

• Advised a hotel operator in the review and negotiation of hotel management agreement in connection with development of Inspire Entertainment Resorts in Incheon, Korea
• Represented the luxury hospitality brand on a mixed-use building development incorporating hotel and branded residence components in Korea
• Advised a project consortium on hotel management and brand licensing arrangements with a globally renowned luxury hotel brand in connection with a complex mixed-use development in Seoul
• Represented the UK private equity investment firm in its joint venture investment in the acquisition of the land and the hotel building through a Korean REF
• Represented the hotel owner in a breach of contract claim against an international hospitality brand

Real Estate Debt & Financing

• Represented sponsor asset management company in connection with senior loan facility secured by Pirelli Building in Milan, Italy
• Advised global asset manager on the restructuring terms of a senior loan facility secured by a 45-stories office building in Frankfurt, Germany
• Represented Korea’s investment firm in its debt (loan note) investment in the Australian debt fund in connection with acquisition of commercial real estate debt portfolios

Mergers and Acquisition

• Represented the Korea’s leading private equity firm in its potential acquisition of exchangeable bonds issued by a subsidiary of Kosdaq-listed healthcare and biotech company based in the United States

Other Corporate

• Represented sovereign wealth fund in its investment in the real estate fund that owns a golf course in Seoul
• Advised foreign airline company A on aviation and defense related laws