Jin Hee is a finance partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. 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 numerous sectors—including renewables and energy, biotech, fintech, manufacturing, telecommunications, media and financial services—and a wide range of financing structures, including acquisition financings, “hybrid” cash flow/revenue and project-style financings, unitranche and mezzanine financings, and royalty and other asset-based financings and asset monetization transactions.
Jin Hee is recognized in Chambers Global and Chambers USA (New York) for her work in Banking and Finance. 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.” Clients also note that “Jin Hee is very talented and capable of handling complex and sophisticated projects with bespoke business needs,” and that “she is also highly responsive and able to provide great client service.”
Life Sciences
Jin Hee represents biotech and life sciences companies, together with the private credit funds and investors that finance them, on senior secured, royalty and other asset-based financings and asset monetization transactions. Her borrower-side clients include Alvotech, Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Cogent, US WorldMeds, XOMA and Zymeworks. Jin Hee’s lender clients in life sciences include private credit funds and investors such as Blue Owl, Braidwell Management Company, Perceptive Advisors, Royalty Pharma and RTW Investments.
Energy and Renewables
Jin Hee advises sponsors, developers, borrowers and lenders across the conventional power and renewables sectors, including in their corporate financings, development project-style financings and “hybrid” cash flow/revenue financing structures that bridge traditional cash flow and asset-based approaches. Her clients in this area include Pine Gate Renewables, Excelerate Energy, EQT Infrastructure, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Banco BTG Pactual and Berkshire Hathaway Energy.
Acquisition Financing
Jin Hee counsels financial sponsors and their portfolio companies on acquisition and leveraged financings. Her sponsor and borrower clients in this area include Veritas Capital, Elliott Investment Management, Suvretta Capital Management, L. Catterton, Oaktree Capital, Eurazeo North America and Aurora Capital.
Corporate and Treasury
Jin Hee represents corporate borrowers across the credit spectrum, from investment grade and crossover issuers to below-investment-grade and privately rated companies, on syndicated and bilateral credit facilities, revolving and term loan financings and other corporate debt transactions. Jin Hee also regularly provides assistance with treasury teams at her corporate clients. Her clients in this area include many of the borrowers named in the categories above, as well as Mondelēz, Intuit, Cognizant, Amazon, Accenture, GE Healthcare and Coupang.
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
- Consumer Products and Retail
- Energy and Infrastructure
- FDA and Health Care
- 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