Eduardo Kim

USA - Ohio

Thompson Hine LLP
3900 Key Center
127 Public Square
Cleveland, OH 44114-1291

Tel: 216.566.5948

Email: Eduardo.Kim@ThompsonHine.com
Web: www.thompsonhine.com

Eduardo is a partner in Thompson Hine’s Commercial & Public Finance practice group.

He focuses his practice on commercial lending, primarily representing banks and other financial institutions. Eduardo has significant experience with syndicated, multi-bank senior credit facilities, asset based and structured finance facilities, acquisition financing, leasing transactions and foreign currency transactions.

Prior to joining the Commercial & Public Finance practice group, Eduardo worked in the Bankruptcy practice group, focusing on Chapter 11 reorganizations, workouts and representing Creditors’ Committees.

Select Representative Matters:
  • Represented lenders (both in an agency and non-agency capacity) on asset-based and quasi-asset based transactions, involving borrowers in the manufacturing, chemical, consumer, health care, financial, technology and agricultural business, in transactions ranging from $5 million to $300 million.
  • Represented agent bank in syndication of an unsecured revolving credit facility to a public company (and foreign borrower subsidiaries) in excess of $1.75 billion.
  • Represented agent bank in syndication of a $500 million credit facility to a public company with alternate currency sublimits and foreign borrowers and guarantors located in more than 10 countries.
  • Represented lenders in correspondent banking transactions worth over $300 million.
  • Represented the administrative agent in a $115 million secured syndicated senior credit facility involving a technology borrower.
  • Represented a specialty chemical manufacturer in negotiation of a $85 million first lien and second lien credit facilities involving institutional investors.
  • Represented agent bank in a syndication of an $85 million senior secured facility involving taking security interests in aircraft, fractional ownership interests and aircraft inventory.
  • Represented equipment lessors in multiple transactions involving renewable energy collateral located in multiple jurisdictions.
  • Selected for inclusion in IFLR 1000, 2019 to 2023
  • Selected for inclusion in Lawyers of Color’s Nation’s Best 2020
  • Selected to the Ohio Rising Stars list
  • Selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Banking & Finance, Ohio
  • Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© since 2012 for Banking and Finance Law; named the Best Lawyers® 2023 Banking and Finance Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Cleveland
Education
  • Cornell University Law School, J.D., 2000
  • Cornell University, B.A., 1996, 
    with distinction
Bar Admissions
  • Ohio
  • New York
Languages
  • Korean
  • Spanish

Our Commercial & Public Finance practice encompasses four substantive areas: commercial finance, public finance, structured finance and corporate trust.

We represent large and midsized public and private corporate borrowers in a wide range of industries, as well as a variety of major financial institutions, in complex commercial finance transactions, including:

  • Mezzanine financing
  • Private debt placements
  • Second lien financing
  • Senior debt
  • Subordinated debt

In the public finance arena, we act as bond counsel and as counsel to underwriters, issuers, placement agents, credit enhancement issuers, trustees and obligors. We regularly provide counsel in transactions involving auto loans, home equity loans and credit card receivables and have significant experience in the following:

  • Asset securitizations
  • Commercial real estate
  • Receivables purchase programs
  • Structured finance transactions
  • Student loans
  • Trade receivables

In the area of corporate trust, we represent major financial institutions, serving in various roles such as trustee, custodian or collateral agent, in corporate and municipal financings, Trust Indenture Act qualified and exempt financings, private placements and structured financings.

Thompson Hine LLP, a full-service business law firm with approximately 400 lawyers in 8 offices, was ranked number 1 in the category “Most innovative North American law firms: New working models” by The Financial Times and was 1 of 7 firms shortlisted for The American Lawyer’s inaugural Legal Services Innovation Award.

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