Overview
Daniel leads the capital markets practice in Korea, where he is highly regarded as one of the top capital markets lawyers.
Daniel advises issuers and underwriters on cross-border private placements and public offerings of debt and equity securities, including IPOs, depositary receipts, equity-linked bonds, perpetual bonds and covered bonds.
Daniel has advised on many of the region’s ground-breaking deals, including on every issuance of covered bonds in Korea over the past five years and most of the US-registered shelf-takedowns.
Experience
Daniel has led on many market-leading transactions. These include advising:
- the joint lead managers on the issue of US$300m convertible bonds by Kakao Corp
- the underwriters on a series of notes as part of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)-registered takedowns by the Republic of Korea, The Export-Import Bank of Korea and the Korea Development Bank
- the joint lead managers on the offer and sale of US$500m notes by POSCO, as well as many other 144A issuances for other major Korean corporates, including LG Chem and SK Telecom
- the underwriters on the initial public offering of Netmarble
- Kookmin Bank, Korea’s largest commercial bank, on the establishment of its statutory covered bond programme (the first in Korea) and multiple successful drawdowns thereunder
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