Steve Hyung Kim is Head of and Chief Investment Officer for LaSalle in Asia Pacific. He also serves as Representative Director of LaSalle Investment Management Co., Ltd., LaSalle’s licensed asset management company, which manages capital on behalf of Korean and international clients, and as a board member of LaSalle REIT Advisors KK, the asset manager of the publicly-listed LaSalle Logiport REIT in Japan. Additionally, he is a member of LaSalle’s Global Management Committee and the Asia Pacific Investment Committee.

Steve joined LaSalle in 2013. He previously served as Head of Acquisitions and Asset Management focused on opportunistic investments and led the launch of the firm’s logistics development platform in Korea. Before joining LaSalle, he was a Managing Partner at Bellevue Capital Management and prior to that, an Executive Director in the Real Estate Investment Banking Division at Nomura International. Earlier in his career, Steve was Vice President of Lehman Brothers’ Global Real Estate Group and also worked at Deutsche Bank’s Real Estate Opportunities Group. He began his career at Merrill Lynch in the U.S. and interned at the United States Senate. Since 2000, Steve has been committed to Asia Pacific having been based in Hong Kong and Seoul. During this time, he completed a wide spectrum of real estate-related transactions in opportunistic private equity investing, secured high-yield lending, securitizations, distressed loan portfolio acquisitions and corporate finance investment banking assignments across Asia Pacific markets.

Steve graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Georgetown University and also completed The General Course at The London School of Economics and Political Science.