Speakers

Boong-Kyu (B.K.) Lee has over 20 years of experience representing issuers, underwriters, and U.S. and international financial institutions in a variety of public and private asset-backed securities offerings. B.K. provides advice to participants in structured finance and M&A transactions involving credit card receivables, data center revenues, automotive loans, pharmaceutical royalties, student loans, peer-to-peer loans, and solar assets. 

B.K. has also counseled on whole business and other operating asset securitizations, as well as resecuritizations and repackagings of various securities and other financial assets, including those using advanced derivative products. His clients rely on him for structuring advice to comply with the Credit Risk Retention Rule, the Volcker Rule, and other Dodd–Frank Act regulations. 

B.K. has experience in CDO and CLO transactions, guides clients in setting up asset-backed commercial paper programs, and counsels banks and corporations in general corporate matters, tender offers, restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions, including FDIC-facilitated bank acquisitions. B.K. has also advised on several major transactions involving Korean entities, including the government of the Republic of Korea. He often counsels his Korean clients on matters relating to U.S. law. 

IFLR1000 lists B.K. as a “notable practitioner” in the U.S. “Capital Markets,” “Debt,” “Equity,” and “Structured Finance and Securitization” practices. In 2014, B.K. received the Cornerstone Award from Lawyers Alliance for New York for his contributions through pro bono services to nonprofits.