SOUTH KOREA Law and Practice Contributed by: Ohryung Lee, Joceline Park, Maria Chang and Hakrae Cho, Bae, Kim & Lee LLC
Bae, Kim & Lee LLC was founded in 1980 and is a full-service law firm covering all major prac - tice areas, including corporate law, mergers and acquisitions transactions, dispute resolution (arbitration and litigation), white-collar crimi - nal defence, competition law, tax law, capital markets law, finance, intellectual property, em - ployment law, real estate, technology, media and telecoms, maritime, and insurance mat - ters. With more than 850 professionals located across its offices in Seoul, Beijing, Hong Kong,
Shanghai, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Yangon and Singapore, it offers clients a wide range of ex - pertise across Asia. The firm is composed of a diverse mix of Korean 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, ena - bling them to assist international clients as well as Korean clients abroad with cross-border transactions.
Authors
Ohryung Lee is a partner in the corporate group at Bae, Kim & LLC, and is licensed to practise law in Korea. Ms Lee’s practice focuses on foreign and domestic M&A by private equity funds,
Joceline Park is a senior foreign attorney in the corporate group at Bae, Kim & Lee LLC, and is licensed to practise law in the
State of New York, USA. Ms Park advises domestic and international clients (including conglomerates, financial institutions, PEFs, and emerging companies) on transactional, regulatory, corporate and litigation matters. She has extensive experience of representing multinational clients in M&A, asset management and inbound and outbound investments, especially advising foreign clients making venture capital investments in Korean emerging companies and advising Korean clients making venture capital investments in foreign start-ups and emerging companies.
corporate restructuring, investment in start-up companies and other general corporate legal affairs. She has been involved in various types of inbound and outbound investments by multiple domestic private equity funds, inbound investments by foreign enterprises, conversion by large domestic enterprises into holding companies, corporate restructuring, and has accumulated a wide range of experience in providing advice to venture companies/start-ups on attraction of investment, business structure and other general corporate legal affairs.
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