About

Provided by Shin & Kim

The Corporate Investigation & White Collar Crime team at Shin & Kim is staffed with attorneys and other professionals with market-leading expertise in criminal defense and white collar crime. The team consists of former judges, former prosecutors, and specialists with substantial experience in the police department. Each team member holds a wealth of experience in connection with criminal investigations and trial-level and appellate-level litigation proceedings. Professionals of the team work in close collaboration with the firm’s accomplished experts in various practices and industry specialists including CPAs and tax accountants. The team has represented clients in highly complex anti-corruption, financial crimes, antitrust, unfair labor practices, tax evasion, trade secrets, privacy law violations and other general corporate criminal matters. The team is committed to providing the best legal service and advice that are specifically tailored to each client at all stages of respective investigations and enforcement processes in the areas of corporate investigations and white collar defense.

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Dispute Resolution: White-Collar Crime - South Korea

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Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Shin & Kim is fully equipped to represent major corporations and high-profile individuals facing prosecution for corruption, embezzlement and accounting fraud. It houses a deep bench of criminal litigation lawyers with broad experience in handling white-collar cases as well as former judges and prosecutors. The firm also handles cross-jurisdictional matters including extraditions. The team has extensive experience handling defence industry corruption cases and is also notably active in the construction, financial services, automotive, medical, pharmaceutical and real estate sectors.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Tak-Kyun Hong
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Tak-Kyun Hong
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Band 2
Hong Tak-Kyun has a wide-ranging white-collar criminal practice spanning financial crime, anti-corruption investigations and criminal IP infringement matters. He has a broad practice, with significant knowledge of antitrust issues.

Hong Tak-Kyun derives appropriate solutions based on a deep theoretical knowledge.

Dong-Shin Yeom
3
Dong-Shin Yeom
3
Band 3
Yeom Dong-Shin offers significant experience defending clients in criminal mandates, with recent activity covering embezzlement, breach of fiduciary duty and fraudulent accounting cases.

Yeom Dong-Shin is detail-oriented and adept at identifying legal aspects that clients may not have considered.

Ok-Sook Byun
3
Ok-Sook Byun
3
Band 3

Byun Ok-Sook offers substantial expertise, backed by her experience as a former prosecutor, in investigations into bribery, occupational negligence, embezzlement and other white-collar criminal issues.

Byun Ok-Sook has problem-solving skills regardless of complex or difficult problems.

Byun Ok-Sook stands out for her dedicated effort for clients.

4
Seong-Jin Choi
4
Band 4

Choi Seong-Jin is a former prosecutor and assists international clients with major police investigations into criminal matters.

Seong-Jin Choi has the ability to solve clients' problems and find appropriate response plans based on those concerns.

Choi Seong-Jin tends to dive deeply into the facts.

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South Korea

Dispute Resolution: White-Collar Crime

Tak-Kyun Hong
2
Tak-Kyun Hong
2
Band 2
Dong-Shin Yeom
3
Dong-Shin Yeom
3
Band 3
Ok-Sook Byun
3
Ok-Sook Byun
3
Band 3
4
Seong-Jin Choi
4
Band 4

Members

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Euisu Lee

Ho Chul Shin

Jai Hoon Lee

Jin Tae Kim

Joo Hyeong Kim

Keonjoo Lee

Head of Department

Kyoung Sik Lee

Ok-Sook Byun

Seong-Jin Choi

Yong-Sung Lee

Industries

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Aerospace & Defence

Banks

Chemicals

Construction & Materials

Government

Industrial Engineering

Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences

Private Clients / Individuals

Retail

Technology, Hardware & Electronics

Transportation