Jin Hee Kim

Jin Hee is a finance partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She has extensive experience advising sponsors, borrowers, arrangers, agents and lenders, including private credit providers on complex U.S. and international financing transactions.

Jin Hee’s experience spans various sectors, including renewables, biotech, fintech, manufacturing, telecommunications, media and financial services and various forms of financing, including acquisition financings, “hybrid” cash flow/revenue and project-style financings in the solar and renewables space, unitranche and mezzanine financings and royalty and other asset based financings and asset monetization transactions.

Her sponsor and borrower clients have included Veritas Capital, Elliott Investment Management, Suvretta Capital Management, L. Catterton, Oak Tree Capital, Eurazeo North America, Aurora Capital, EQT Infrastructure, the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, Pine Gate Renewables, Banco BTS Pactual, Excelerate Energy, Alvotech, Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Xoma and Coupang.

Jin Hee’s lender and arranger-side practice includes representation of large banking institutions, as well as private credit funds and investors in the biotech and life sciences space, including Blue Owl, Braidwell Management Company, Perceptive Advisors, Royalty Pharma and RTW Investments.

In addition to her general transactional financing practice, Jin Hee has an in-depth knowledge of UCC Article 9 and both domestic and cross-border intercreditor issues. Clients have described Jin Hee in The Legal 500 as "a trusted advisor…[who] properly advises in structuring complicated syndicated lending transactions" and "an excellent resource for market information [who] has been able to guide our thinking in terms of different potential financing options."

Jin Hee received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was a member of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, graduated cum laude and was elected to the Order of the Coif. She received her B.A., with distinction in her major, from Yale University.

Capabilities

• Finance
• Artificial Intelligence
• Betting and Gaming
• Business Restructuring and Reorganization
• Capital Markets
• Cleantech
• FDA and Health Care
• Fashion, Retail, and Consumer Products
• Financial Institutions
• Infrastructure
• Life Sciences
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Private Equity
• Projects
• Royalty Finance
• Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance
• Technology Transactions

Credentials

Education:

• University of Pennsylvania - 2004 Juris Doctor
• Yale University - 1998 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• New York Bar