

Overview
Kim’s practice involves all aspects of commercial real estate development, including acquisitions, dispositions, financing, land use and leasing; mergers, acquisitions and general corporate representation of closely held companies; mineral and natural resources transactions; representing both borrowers and lenders in asset-based lending and other commercial lending matters; secured transactions; and tax increment financing.
Experience
- Key member of deal team responsible for negotiating and documenting sale of fitness industry assets and related real estate interests in multiple states
- Advised borrowers in securitized finance and defeasance transactions
- Counsel for shopping center owners in negotiating and documenting ECR agreements and leases to national and regional tenants
- Represented corporate investor with respect to acquisition of significant equity interest in coal mining business
- Negotiated complex investment in equine operations business and related real estate holding company
- Represented purchaser of hardwoods products businesses
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Publications & Presentations
- Author, “Easements and Licenses,” Kentucky Real Estate Law and Practice, 4th ed., § 19 (UK/CLE) 2013
- Co-Author, “Opinion Letters,” Kentucky Real Estate Law and Practice, 4th ed., § 10 (UK/CLE) 2013
- “Distressed Asset Disposition: Selling Encumbered Mineral Properties,” 34th Annual Energy & Mineral Law Institute, June 18, 2013
- Author, “Understanding Unconventional Easements and Rights of Entry,” 33 Energy & Min. L. Inst. 15 (2012)
- “Understanding Unconventional Easements and Rights of Entry,” 33rd Annual Energy & Mineral Law Institute, June 26, 2012
Credentials
- cum laude
- magna cum laude
- Fayette County Bar Association
- Kentucky Bar Association
- Energy & Mineral Law Foundation
- Commerce Lexington Public Policy Council, 2012-2014
- Board of Directors, Bluegrass Rape Crisis Center, 2006-2012
- Leadership Lexington, Class of 2008-2009
- Vice Chairperson, Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Address Enforcement Hearing Board, 2008-2015
- Past Member, Advanced Manufacturing Partnership
- Legal 500
- “Corporate and M&A,” Legal 500 City Elite Kentucky, 2026
- Best Lawyers in America®
- Corporate Law, Real Estate Law, 2023-2026

