Ji Woon Kim
Shareholder
10 Collyer Quay #37 06/10 Ocean Financial Centre, Singapore, 049315
1633 Broadway 31st Floor New York, New York 10019
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Ji Woon Kim
Shareholder
Ji Woon Kim is a Shareholder in the Singapore office of Vedder Price and a member of the firm’s Global Transportation Finance team, which is a dedicated team of corporate, tax, securities and bankruptcy attorneys in Chicago, New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London and Singapore.
In August 2016, Mr. Kim relocated from the New York office to establish the firm’s Singapore office. He represents and advises international and domestic lenders, finance companies, export-credit agencies, borrowers, lessors, lessees, operators, charterers, trustees and others in a variety of equipment finance matters in the transportation industry involving commercial aircraft, business aircraft, helicopters, rolling stock and vessels, and other maritime assets.
Mr. Kim’s aviation experience includes representation of the Export-Import Bank of the United States in cross-border aircraft leasing transactions with airlines and operating lessors throughout the world, including transactions utilizing the capital markets; commercial banks and other lenders in a variety of aviation finance matters, including transactions structured as, or utilizing, back-leveraged financings, cross-border leveraged leases, mortgage financings, warehouses, revolving credit facilities, operating lease financings, sale and leasebacks, asset securitization and capital market financings; and airlines in mortgage financings and hedging transactions.
Mr. Kim’s maritime experience includes representation of commercial banks and other lenders, trustees and others in a variety of maritime finance matters, including transactions structured as, or utilizing, cross-border leveraged leases, mortgage financings, warehouses, revolving credit facilities, export credit agency-–supported financings, bareboat charter financings, sale and leasebacks and capital market financings.
In 2013, Mr. Kim was recognized as a Rising Star by Airfinance Journal, and, in 2014, he was listed as a Rising Star by New York Super Lawyers in the practice of aviation and aerospace. In addition, in 2017 and 2019 Who’s Who Legal Transport recognized Mr. Kim in the category of Aviation Finance. In 2015, 2017 and 2018, Vedder Price was named Airline Economics “Aviation 100 Law Firm of the Year.” In 2021 and 2022 Mr. Kim was recognized by Chambers Asia Pacific as an ‘Up and Coming’ Lawyer in the Aviation Finance: Singapore category and in 2023 he was ranked Band 4. In 2022 and 2023 he was editorially recommended by the Legal 500 Asia Pacific Singapore Asset Finance: Foreign Firms.
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Education
- University of Illinois College of Law, J.D., 2004, cum laude
- University of Chicago, B.A., 1999
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Bar Admissions
- New Jersey, 2004
- New York, 2005
Affiliations
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, New York State Bar Association
- Member, New Jersey State Bar Association
- Member, The Maritime Law Association of the United States
- Member, The Law Society of Singapore
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Publications
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December 21, 2020 | Video Recording
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June 2017 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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June 2017 | Newsletter/Bulletin
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News
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February 2, 2023 | Press Release
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December 16, 2022 | Press Release
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November 15, 2022 | Press Release
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May 23, 2022 | Press Release
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December 17, 2021 | Press Release
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June 23, 2021 | Press Release
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December 15, 2020 | Press Release
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February 6, 2020 | Press Release
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March 1, 2018 | Press Release
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August 21, 2017 | Press Release
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September 12, 2016 | Press Release
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July 6, 2016 | Press Release
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April 2014 | Press Release
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Past Events
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March 14, 2023 | Seminar
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September 27-28, 2022 | Seminar
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September 15, 2020 | Webinar
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September 24 - 25, 2019 | Seminar
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May 10, 2019 | Seminar
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May 7-9, 2019 | Seminar
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March 19-20, 2019 | Seminar
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October 29-31, 2018 | Seminar
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September 18-19, 2018 | Seminar
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April 20, 2018 | Seminar
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March 19-21, 2018 | Seminar
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September 19-20, 2017 | Seminar
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June 19-21, 2017 | Seminar
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May 9-10, 2017 | Seminar
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March 20, 2017 | Special Event
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September 20-21, 2016 | Seminar
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May 10, 2016 | Seminar
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