Real Estate
Asia-Pacific Guide 2024 : South Korea
Band 2
Email address
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+82 2 772 4000About
Provided by Lee & Ko
Lee & Ko’s Real Estate Group, with its vast and diversified manpower, provides a full range of services to a wide array of clients, including domestic and foreign real estate developers, asset management companies, REITs, pension funds, banks, and insurance companies. We offer clients wide range of experience handling all types of property such as prime offices, shopping malls, hotels and resorts, factories, logistic facilities and data center.
The core strength of Lee & Ko’s Real Estate Practice is its ability to provide seamless coordination between its real estate transaction practice with other practices, dispute resolutions and regulatory affairs in particular. Our professionals are also renowned for being able to develop and analyze optimal tax structures for cross-border real estate transactions.
Another strength is its ability to assist foreign clients in inbound real estate investments, with the depth of experience in navigating the foreign clients through complex and intricate real estate laws and regulations in Korea along with our global perspective and insight.
Being a true one-stop shop, we are able to guide our clients through every stage of a sophisticated and complex real estate transaction.
Chambers Review
Lee & Ko is a full-service law firm in South Korea with pronounced strength in real estate financing. The team is often mandated to draft and negotiate complex sale and purchase agreements, and advise on the coordination of large-scale commercial property investment projects and overseas real estate developments, as well as handling a range of REITs and REFs matters. It also acts in land and property-related disputes, with extensive experience of advising on construction-related litigation. The team's client roster includes major commercial banks and asset management companies, such as Samsung SRA Asset Management, Daol Asset Management and IGIS Asset Management.
Work Highlights
- Lee & Ko advised Daol Asset Management on its KRW153 billion sale of 100% of shares in KTB CSQ REIT, which holds 95% ownership in Congress Square, a large office and retail mixed-use property in Boston.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Lee & Ko's team is smart and knowledgeable. They have good business acumen."
"They provided advice on some complex issues with strong capability."
"Lee & Ko's team is smart and knowledgeable. They have good business acumen."
"They provided advice on some complex issues with strong capability."
Notable Practitioners
Lee Junghwan leads Lee & Ko's real estate group in Seoul and is commended for his work advising domestic investors and private funds on their outbound acquisitions and investments in real estate assets based throughout Europe and the USA. He is often mandated in transactions involving commercial and residential properties.
Woo Dong Seok utilises his finance experience to advise clients on a range of real estate transaction matters, including investments and acquisitions. His work remit covers both Korean and international issues.
"Woo Dong Seok has more than 20 years of experience. He is likeable, very client-minded, very technical and commercial."
"Woo Dong Seok is well established. He is the real deal in the market."
Ranked Lawyers at
Lee & Ko
South Korea
Members
Provided by Lee & Ko
Chanik Jang
Eunyoung Shin
Jee In Kim
Jin Wook Yang
Joonghoon Kwak
Ju-Young Susie Im
Jun Woo Cho