Firm Overview
After more than two decades of counseling and advising corporate clients on domestic and international transactions, Jay Choi has opened his own law firm ("Firm") to concentrate on creating a firm with a distinctive character based on his core values of diligence, trust, loyalty, integrity, and expediency. The firm is dedicated to serving U.S. and international corporations. We are active in USA, Korea and Asia.
With extensive corporate and transactional deal experiences, the firm is well positioned to assist those global-minded corporations in their strategic planning and international expansion. We are experienced in inbound and outbound corporate expansion issues including, but not limited to, due diligence in strategic decisions on whether and how to establish corporate presence, local entity establishment and corporate winding up, negotiation of real estate lease, employment contract, commercial contract, asset acquisition and disposition, merger, corporate personnel transfer, international, cross border, U.S. Immigration, and financing new operation.
Our Clients
Our clients are corporations with locations within the U.S.A. and Asia. They are all sizes and in all stages of the corporate life cycle. Typically they are progressive global-minded corporations seeking legal answers to advance their corporate mission. Our role has been to serve as outside general counsel, transactional counsel, financing counsel, lead or second chair in major consolidations of corporate assets and mergers, and immigration counsel.
Our Practice Areas
Our firm focuses on corporate law, which directs us to cultivate a keen understanding of the needs of our clients, and a superior understanding of corporate financing means and business trends, which enables us to maintain a high degree of legal expertise. Our firm provides legal assistance in the areas of Business and Corporate law, International Transactional law, Corporate Debt or Equity financing law, Commercial Real Estate law, and U.S. immigration law.
Our Core Values and Strategy
Our core values are diligence, trust, loyalty, integrity, and expediency. Our strategy is to apply these core values to guide our daily lives, and to pursue our clients' best interest for their organizational success. We are dedicated to our staff development and education. We are equally dedicated to providing innovative legal solutions to our clients, using up-to-date legal theory and expediting its delivery by using the most appropriate means.
Our Dedication to Community Service
Jay Choi serves the local, national and international community and the legal profession by participating in and leading various civic organizations and bar associations as Board of Director, Representative, Chair, President, and Advisor. Each person in the Firm pledges to and commits to the aforementioned mission, core values, and strategy. We encourage our staff and clients to "Walk the talk."
List of Transactions
- Represented a multi-national shipping corporation in its $300 million acquisition credit facility.
- Counseled a U.S. subsidiary of a foreign public company in its effort to acquire five Chinese real estate assets in excess of $100 million, by structuring the deal and conducting due diligence.
- Negotiated several long-term real estate leases in excess of $10 million for a corporate relocation for a major global entity.
- Represented a multi-national telecom corporation in a $30 million equity financing from a U.S. funding source.
- Represented a multi-national corporation in a $10 million acquisition of joint venture interests in Asia.
- Represented a multi-national corporation in a joint venture dispute with its partner and a termination of a foreign government contact.
- Represented a multi-national corporation in its acquisition financing of a $125 million credit facility as U.S. local counsel.
- Represented a $100 million pension fund in its corporate restructuring and drafted necessary documents.
- Represented a national airport authority in its effort to bring in an Asian-based airline.
- Represented a multi-national mining corporation in its debt restructuring and establishment of a new $20 million credit facility;
- Represented cooperative lenders in creating corporate structures, advised the officers, drafted asset-based lending documents to establish a multi-million dollar portfolio.
- Represented U.S. exporters in their establishment of corporate structures, drafted agreements, and advised the officers in exporting multi-million dollar U.S. crops.
- Represented inbound foreign investors in establishing necessary legal structures and advising on their corporate matters.
- Represented U.S. manufacturers in expanding their market into Asia by identifying potential joint venture partners, negotiating with local partners and establishing joint ventures; and advised U.S. based clients in their corporate governance matters.
- Represented a multi-billion dollar U.S. corporation in its corporate restructuring, and consolidated several multi-national entities in Asia.
- Represented U.S. corporations in their shareholder buyout issues by negotiating and drafting documents and filing suit to consolidate the ownership.
- Represented U.S. insurance firms in expanding their markets in Asia by advising them in identifying potential joint venture partners, conducting negotiations and overseeing all applicable documentation.
- Represented U.S. institutions in hiring highly-experienced foreign workers.
- Represented corporate clients in their asset acquisitions by negotiating, drafting agreements, and conducting closings.
- Represented domestic corporations in their debt and equity financing.