Energy & Infrastructure
DR & AJU provides experienced and comprehensive legal advice to our clients on energy sector such as energy, gas, oilfield, mineral, resource development in order to the clients’ global endeavors in energy projects and related technology.
Global Energy & Infrastructure Practice Group acts for a contracting authorities, financiers (including ECAs) sponsors and EPC/O&M contractors on a range of projects around the globe across different sectors including energy, renewable energy, LNG, oil & gas, mining, waste-to-energy, gas-to-power, power-to-gas and power generation (IPP) and infrastructure/PPP (rail, road, ports, airports) projects both in developed and emerging markets.
Our team has extensive experienced in domestic and overseas projects for power generation, utility and resource development (oil, gas and mineral) and have unparalleled capacity and an established network of ongoing relationships with a number of leading international law firms in the field. DR & AJU’s services entail review, drafting and negotiation of legal documents for energy projects (including renewable energy projects) and energy project financing as well as general corporate
matters in the energy related business. As each energy and infrastructure project has its own unique nature, we also form a flexible team for
each project that requires experts from different practice groups, such as project finance team, M&A team, real estate team, construction team and arbitration team.
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- Advising on potential equity investments and PFs in finding, developing, operating & management of an energy or infrastructure project opportunities
- Acting for the sponsors, lenders, supervisors, EPCs and O&M companies in greenfield investment
- Preparing and reviewing of legal due diligence reports
- Analyzing/allocating/mitigating business risks
- Analyzing bankability
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- Advising on project structuring
- Drafting, preparing, reviewing of project documents and finance documents
- Negotiating with the counterparties to projects
- Acting for sellers/purchasers in brownfield investments
- Advising on project valuation
- International arbitration and cross-border litigation
- Advising on negotiation and settlement
- EPC contract disputes
- Liquidated damage related disputes
- PF disputes regarding EOD
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- Advising Hana Financial Investment and Samchully Asset Management as the transactional manager to acquire, develop and project finance 200MW Columboola Solar Farm in Queensland.
- Advising Hana Financial Investment, Korea Investment & Securities, NH-Amundi and IBK Asset Management on all aspects of the acquisition and funding of 3 operating wind farms (73.2MW) in Finland.
- Advising a Korean financier on Uzbekistan GTL (development, operation and maintenance of a gas-to-liquids processing and production plant with a daily capacity of approximately 37,600 barrels of GTL Products, located at the Site close to the Shurtan Gas Chemical Complex in Kashkadarya region of the Republic of Uzbekistan).
- Advising a Korean financier on Westconnex Stage 3 Project (the largest infrastructure project in Australia) by reviewing a voluminous and complex PPP structure and providing client with analysis on project finance risk and bankability issues that the client need to know before sub-participating as a lender.
- Advising a Korean financier on project financing on term loan B regarding the 870MW Oregon Clean Energy Center in Oregon, Ohio, USA and negotiating with the relevant parties and reviewing of the project profitability.
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- Advising Korea Western Power Co., Ltd., Hana Financial Investment Co., Ltd., Energy Infra Asset Management Co., Ltd. as a consortium in a bid to acquire a greenfield 300MW solar farm project in Rodds Bay, Australia by acting as the transaction counsel and project manager on the bid.
- Advising Korea Western Power Co., Ltd. in their bid to acquire 250MW part of the 1GW Lower Wonga solar farm in Australia by assessing of the project, its bankability, profitability and preparing the relevant legal documents for the potential acquisition including the project financing aspects.
- Advising Korea Western Power Co., Ltd. in assessing for acquisition of the 81MW Madison solar PV project which Cypress Creek has developed in USA, including assessing the PPA status, yield, RECs, O&M cost, lease and other rights and consequences in order for the client to submit the bid.
- Advising K-Sure as ECA on project financing for HPCL petrochemical plant project in Punjab, India by reviewing the facility agreement, security trustee agreement, intercreditor agreement, sponsor support agreement, term sheets, K-Sure insurance policies, and other relevant finance documents.
- Advising POSCO International in its risk assessment and mitigation in participating in an EPC bid for design, supply and installation of substations to be part of the Odisha Power Transmission Corporation.
- Advising a Korean financier in their potential sub-participation arrangement in the project financing of an Australian company in its establishment and expansion of large-scale data centers in 4 countries.
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Melissa PARK
Foreign Attorney
Heejin KIM
Foreign Attorney
Timothy DICKENS
Foreign Attorney
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Kyeong (Catherine) KIM
Foreign Attorney
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Dae Hui KIM
Managing Partner
Suk Min KIM
Foreign Attorney
Sin Woo KIM
Foreign Attorney
Heejin KIM
Foreign Attorney
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Melissa PARK
Foreign Attorney
Yun Ok PARK
Senior Advisor
Jaesung (Jason) PARK
Foreign Attorney
Yeon Soo SUH
Foreign Attorney
Sung Hyuck YOON
Senior Advisor
Woojun CHUNG
Foreign Attorney
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- Recommended Firm in Green Guide Asia Pacific 2024, The Legal 500 Green Guide Asia Pacific 2024 (2023)
- Energy and Resource Law Firm of the Year, ALB Korea Law Awards 2023 (2023)
- "Tier 3" in Projects and Energy, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022 (2022)
- "Tier 4" in Projects and Energy, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021 (2021)
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