Hyeon-Jin Kim

Mr. Hyeon-Jin Kim is a partner at Shin & Kim. Mr. Kim’s main areas of practice include trusts and estates, civil & criminal litigations in relation to tax and accounting (prosecution’s criminal stage, tax appeal, international arbitration) and consultation (capital markets act, inheritance etc.).

Mr. Kim passed the 29th Certified Public Accountants exams in 1994, and worked at Ernst & Young and KPMG. While joining Ernst & Young and KPMG, Mr. Kim worked on providing tax consulting for various companies.

Shin & Kim LLC (2005–Present)

Judicial Research & Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (2003–2005)

SeBit Accounting Firm, a member firm of KPMG (2000–2003)

SanTong Accounting Firm, a member firm of KPMG (1999–2000)

Defense Procurement Agency of the Ministry of National Defense (1996–1998)

YoungHwa Accounting Firm, a member of Ernst & Young (1994–1995)

Legal Counsel, National Tax Service Jungbu Regional Office (2022–Present)

Commissioner, KOSDAQ Market Corporate Evaluation Committee, Korea Exchange (2021–Present)

Member and Director, Tax Law Association (2021–Present)

Advisor, Tax Expert Practice Committee, The Federation of Korean Industries (2020–Present)

Expert Advisor, Start-up Supporting Program, Korean Institute of Certified Public Accountant (KICPA) (2020–Present)

Chairman, Local Tax Policy Subcommittee of the Korea Local Tax Association (2020–Present)

Chairman, Research on Corporate Tax Regime, Korean Academic Society of Taxation (2020–Present)

Member, Accounting System Deliberation Committee, Financial Services Commission (2019–Present)

Member, Mid-Sized Company Committee, Korea Chamber of Commerce & Industry (2019–Present)

Auditor, Paan Scholarship and Culture Foundation (2019–Present)

Tax and Corporate Accounting Lecturer, International Management Institute, The Federation of Korean Industries (2016–Present)

Tax and Corporate Accounting Lecturer, Accounting Training Institute, Seoul Bar Association (2015–Present)

Member, National Tax Research Committee, The Korean Institute of Certified Public Accountant (KICPA) (2014–2018)

Korean Bar

Certified Public Accountant, Korea

Trusts as Will Substitutes, Reserve and Inheritance Tax, Monthly CPA, KICPA, April 2020

Foreign Exchange Transactions Act/Customs Act Handbook for In-house Lawyers, Korean Bar Association, December 2019

Legal Explanatory Notes for External Audit on Corporations, Etc. (Supervision), Korean Institute of Certified Public Accountants, 2019

Online Explanatory Notes for the Local Tax Act, the Framework Act on Local Taxes and the Local Tax Collection Act, 2019

Service Report on Improvement of Taxation on artwork and craftwork, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, 2019

Online Explanatory Notes for the Inheritance Tax and Gift Tax Act, 2018

Justification for exemption of additional tax, National Tax Practice Guide, Tax Support Center(“TSC”) of Korean Institute of Certified Public Accountants(“KICPA”), 2017

Legal issues on business transfer, Consulting/Tax Guide on Business Transfer, TSC, 2016

Criteria of judgment on illegal repetitive tax investigation, and application of denial for unfair-act calculation concerning over-priced acquisition of new shares, Tax Case Guide, KICPA, November 2015

Family-Business Transfer Guidebook, Part 3 on Business-Transfer Law/Taxation, TSC, 2015

Corporate Accounting: Legal Risks and Countermeasures, Asia Legal Business, October 2013

Economic Democratization and Taxation in the 2013 Summer Joint Congress of Korea Commercial Cases Association and Korea Business Law Association, August 2013

Consulting on response to tax investigation for multiple corporations such as company Q, C, K, S, N, M, etc.

Tax consulting on merger through division between the affiliates of K Group

Tax consulting on sale of Natuur Business Division of Lotte GRS (split-up, business transfer, etc.)

Tax consulting on restructuring of FedEx Global (business and equity transfer)

Tax consulting on restructuring of Starion Group (split-up, merger, etc.)

Tax consulting on restructuring of Halla Group

Comprehensive legal consulting for company H, J, Y, P, S, K, etc. with business succession as a precondition (including tax consulting with split-up, merger, etc. as preconditions)

Consulting on acquisition of equity of SMCore of SK

Consulting on acquisition of overseas business of Cheil Industries Inc.

USC Gould School of Law

LL.M.

2012

Dankook University College of Business Administration

B.A.

1995