Steve Hyung Kim is Head of Korea and is responsible for strategy, personnel and investment management in the country. He also serves as the representative director of LaSalle Investment Management Co., Ltd., LaSalle’s licensed asset management company in Korea, which manages capital on behalf of domestic and international clients. Steve is also a member of the Asia Pacific Investment Committee.
Prior to joining LaSalle, Steve was a Managing Partner at Bellevue Capital Management where he focused on cross-border transactions on behalf of Asian family offices and an Executive Director in the Investment Banking Division at Nomura International (Hong Kong) where he was a founding member of the real estate advisory business for Asia Pacific ex-Japan. Earlier, Steve was Vice President of Lehman Brothers’ Global Real Estate Group focused on principal debt investments in Korea, Australia and China. He also worked at Deutsche Bank’s Real Estate Opportunities Group acquiring under-performing properties, multi-borrower loan portfolios and distressed companies based in Hong Kong. He started his career at Merrill Lynch in the US and interned at the United States Senate.
Since 2000, Steve has completed real estate-related transactions across multiple markets throughout the Asia Pacific region in opportunistic private equity investing, high-yield principal lending, distressed loan portfolio acquisitions and corporate finance investment banking advisory assignments.
Steve holds a Bachelor of Science from Georgetown University and also studied at The London School of Economics and Political Science under the General Course Program.
Meet the team
Head of Asia Pacific
Co-Head of Australia
Chief Executive Officer, Japan
Chief Operating Officer, Asia Pacific
Co-Head of Australia
Head of Greater China