Chicago-based Vedder Price has opened its first Asian office in Singapore, banking on the growth of aircraft finance work.

The office will be headed by shareholder Ji Woon Kim, who has relocated from New York. Kim, a Vedder Price lifer and a shareholder since 2014, specializes in cross-border transportation finance, having represented lenders and export-credit agencies such as the Export-Import Bank of the United States on aircraft leasing transactions with major airlines.