Steve represents banking and financial institutions and multinational companies.
He focuses on financing transactions, corporate governance, cross-border commercial lending and corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and project developments.
Steve has significant experience in advising both lenders and corporate borrowers in secured and unsecured commercial lending transactions, including asset-based loans (ABL), lines of credit, working capital and leveraged acquisition financings, equipment financings, loan syndications and participations, senior, second lien and subordinated financings.
His clients include multinationals institutions, particularly in the banking, automotive and real estate sectors, with an emphasis on Korean investors and clients who extend credit for Korean and other corporate borrowers in the United States. Steve also has experience in the origination and restructuring of commercial loans and senior mortgage and mezzanine loans.
Additionally, Steve has extensive experience in EB-5 financing matters. He has represented a wide range of regional centers, project developers, and other sponsors in structuring EB-5 securities offerings and equity and/or debt financings for various development projects, including large manufacturing facilities and mix-used real estate properties.
Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, Steve was a partner in the Finance practice of a major US firm where he also led the firm’s EB-5 Practice Group and served as the Co-Leader of the firm’s Asian American Business Resource Group.
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- Represented a leading international cross-border bank, as the facility agent and lead arranger, in a $120 million syndicated term loan facility for a leading global manufacturer of advanced semiconductor materials to develop its new facilities.
- Advised an administrative agent and joint lead arrangers in negotiating amendments to a $500 million syndicated term loan facility for a fully integrated life science company.
- Represented an international agent bank and syndicate of lenders as US local counsel in a $150 million senior secured financing for development of new solar panel module manufacturing facility.
- Represented a Korean bank, as the syndication and administrative agent, to provide a mortgage syndication loan of more than $220 million to an S&P 500 public REIT for several real estate assets in New York.
- Represented a leading international cross-border bank, as the administrative agent, as its local counsel in the UK, Netherlands, and Hong Kong, to provide a $35 million multicurrency ABL revolving credit facilities for a leading provider of comprehensive manufacturing and support services for medical devices, industrial products, and protective solutions.
- Understanding Loan Documents in EB-5 Project Finance, EB5 Investors Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 3, May 2016
- EB-5 Beginner Workshop: Loan Documents in EB-5, EB5 Investors Magazine: 2016 Las Vegas EB-5 Conference, Las Vegas, NV, January 2016
- Advising Public Companies with Respect to the Securities Act, Exchange Act, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Dodd-Frank Act and JOBS Act Compliance, Georgia Tech College of Business, Corporate Governance Course, Atlanta, GA, March 2013
- Investment Immigration - Finance and Securities Issues for EB-5 Regional Centers and Investors, International Association of Korean Lawyers (IAKL) 20th Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, September 2012
- Battle of the Titans: Intellectual Property Regime v. Uniform Commercial Code, University of Illinois, J.L. TECH & POL'Y 531, 2003
- Named to Best Lawyers in the area of corporate law (2024-2026)
- Recognized among Top 15 Corporate Attorneys, EB5 Investors Magazine (2016-2017)
- Recognized among the Top 8 EB-5 corporate and securities attorneys, EB5 Investors Magazine (Winter 2015)
- Member, Atlanta Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, International Association of Korean Lawyers
- Board Member and Law Student Committee Chair, Korean American Bar Association of Georgia
- Member, Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association
- Member, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
- Georgia
- New York
- Supreme Court of Georgia
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
Hon. William T. Boyett, Chief Judge of the Superior Court of the Conasauga, Georgia, Judicial Circuit
- J.D., cum laude, University of Illinois College of Law,
Associate Editor, Journal of Law, Technology and Policy
- B.A., Vanderbilt University