SOUTH KOREA Law and Practice Contributed by: Hyeon Kang, Tae Kyoon Kim, Seungil Hong and Sung-Ho Moon, Bae, Kim & Lee LLC
Bae, Kim & Lee LLC (BKL) was founded in 1980 and is a full-service law firm covering all major practice areas, including corporate law, mergers and acquisitions transactions, dispute resolution (arbitration and litigation), white-col - lar criminal defence, competition law, tax law, capital markets law, finance, intellectual prop - erty, employment law, real estate, technology, media and telecom (TMT), maritime and insur - ance matters. With more than 650 professionals located across its offices in Seoul, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Yan -
gon and Dubai, it offers its clients a wide range of expertise through a vast network of offices. The firm is composed of a diverse mix of Kore - an and foreign attorneys, tax advisers, industry analysts, former government officials and other specialists. A number of its professionals are multilingual and have worked at well-known law firms in other countries, enabling them to suc - cessfully assist international clients as well as Korean clients abroad with cross-border trans - actions.
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Hyeon Kang is a partner at BKL advising domestic and international clients on real estate (including construction) and finance. Since the Korean real estate market opened to
Tae Kyoon Kim is a certified public accountant at BKL. Work areas include tax appeals and tax consultations, and he has abundant experience in international and financial tax.
foreign investment in 1998, he has focused on real estate and finance transactions and real estate development projects. He mainly deals with collective investments in real estate through real estate holding companies, real estate funds/trusts, project finance vehicles, etc. Hyeon has been instrumental in amending the law on collective investment in real estate. A member of the New York Bar Association, Hyeon lectures at the Lawyer Training Institute of the Korean Bar Association and the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Korean Supreme Court.
Tae Kyoon provides advice on tax issues regarding restructuring and inbound and outbound investment, taking charge of tax probes and tax appeals for financial institutions, large companies and foreign equity funds. He was a member of the National Tax Judging Committee and the Steering Committee for International Tax Law and Regulations of the National Tax Service. Currently, he is a member of the Financial Industry Tax Interests Committee of Korea Tax Seminar and of the International Fiscal Association Korea. He also lectures on tax law.
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