Sung-Hyui Park
Bates Wells
Sung-Hyui Park at Bates Wells is a key contact on innovative and purpose-focused sustainability-related financings and impact investments. Alongside an emphasis on supporting corporates, investors, and lenders integrate sustainability considerations within their financings, Park also brings an acute awareness of the ESG-related legal and commercial challenges impacting the charities and not-for-profit spaces.
Regularly acting for development finance institutions, institutional impact investors, social banks, and registered charities, Park assists in negotiating green and sustainability-linked loans, blended finance structures, climate-linked impact investments, and innovative ESG-related funding mechanisms.
Seeking to boost equality and understanding within the impact investment space, Park initiated and co-leads the Equalising Deal Terms Project. As part of its aim to support funders and funding recipients in developing fairer practices in investment processes, the project has produced principles that allow social investors acknowledge and address some key causes of imbalanced impact investing relationships.