Ms. Yoo-kyung Lee is currently a partner at Shin & Kim, mainly practicing in the areas of real estate transactions and development, real estate finance, offshore investment, foreign investment, fund establishment and management under the Capital Markets Act, and advisory services related to the Serious Accident Punishment Act against real estate managers.

Ms. Lee is a member of a real estate advisory group which is ranked as Tier 1 by reputed evaluators every year, and mainly engages in real estate transactions and offshore investment services through collective investment schemes under the Real Estate Alternative Investment Group, and has also provided advice on domestic investment services to foreign companies. In this process, she provided advice on financing, sales and lease transactions, and operational entrustment agreements related to various types of real estate, including landmark buildings, logistics centers, data centers, industrial complexes, and hotels in Korea and abroad. In addition, after the enforcement of the Serious Accident Punishment Act, she provides advice to asset management companies on the operation and management of real estate related to the Serious Accident Punishment Act.

Ms. Lee graduated Seoul National University’s College of Law, obtained a master’s degree (LL.M) from UC Berkeley’s School of Law, and completed the 39th term of judicial training course at Judicial Research and Training Institute. Based on her expertise in real estate and finance, she has been serving as an external member of the National Pension Service’s Alternative Investment Committee since 2020.

Ms. Lee was selected as one of the Rising Stars in Construction and Real Estate in 2022, awarded by Real Times.

Domestic real estate transactions, development and investment.

• Advised domestic companies on selling hotels located in Jung-gu, Seoul.
• Advised domestic funds (collective investment schemes, hereinafter the same) on real estate acquisition transactions within industrial complexes.
• Advised large domestic companies on acquisition of office buildings located in Daegu.
• Advised domestic conglomerates on the sale of hotels located in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul.
• Advised domestic funds on pre-purchase transactions of logistics centers.
• Advised foreign investor on the acquisition of office buildings in Seoul.
• Advised foreign sovereign wealth fund on investment in office buildings located in Seoul.
• Advised domestic funds on the development of data centers.
• Advised domestic funds on the acquisition of office buildings in Jung-gu, Seoul.
• Advised domestic funds on the acquisition of office buildings in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.

Investment in offshore real estate, etc.

• Advised domestic funds on the acquisition (investment) of office buildings in Vietnam.
• Advised domestic funds on simultaneous acquisition of French, US and Canadian office buildings.
• Advised domestic (indirect) funds on investments in offshore collective investment schemes.
• Advised domestic funds on loan transactions secured by U.S. hotels.
• Advised domestic funds on the acquisition of Belgian office buildings.
• Advised domestic funds on the acquisition of U.S. office buildings.
• Advised Korean National Pension Service on the acquisition of U.S. office buildings.
• Advised domestic funds on the acquisition of French office buildings.
• Advised domestic funds on the acquisition of German office buildings.

Advice on Hotel Operation Entrustment Agreements and Other Related Matters

• Advised domestic companies on hotel operation entrustment agreements.

Advised on the Serious Accident Punishment Act

• Advised domestic asset management companies (collective investment business entities) on the Serious Accident Punishment Act
• Advised domestic asset management companies on the Serious Accident Punishment Act.
• Advised domestic facility management companies on the Serious Accident Punishment Act.
• Advised public companies on the Serious Accident Punishment Act.

Miscellaneous

• Establishment of offshore branches and other entities of domestic asset management companies (U.S., Singapore, UK)
• Advised clients on the operation of domestic real estate funds.