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Cheolhee Park is an attorney in Kim & Chang’s Litigation Practice.

Mr. Park’s practice involves a variety of complex commercial litigation, with a focus on securities and derivatives litigation regarding corporate governance issues.

Throughout his time with the firm, he has represented both domestic and international corporate clients and financial institutions in various disputes, including litigations, criminal investigations, and Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) inspections, relating to corporate law and finance issues such as contest for corporate control, shareholder activism, securities fraud, accounting fraud, incomplete audits, asset management, non-performing loans, bankruptcy, hostile takeovers, and indemnification.

He has also advised domestic and international clients on various issues concerning corporate law, securities law and the code of civil and criminal procedure. In addition, he has experience advising the Ministry of Finance and Economy on legal issues.

Before entering into private practice, Mr. Park served as a district court judge in Seoul for four years.

Mr. Park obtained his Ph.D. in law from Seoul National University in 2006.

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Experience

Visiting Attorney, Shearman & Sterling LLP, San Francisco (2009)
Kim & Chang (2005-Present)
Judge, Seoul Northern District Court (2003-2005)
Judge, Seoul District Court (2001-2003)
Judge Advocate, Republic of Korea Army (1998-2001)

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Awards

Litigation Star, Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific: Commercial and transactions (Delinian, 2024)
Best Scholarship Publication Award for his book "Settlement in Securities Class Action" (Korean Government - Ministry of Culture & Tourism, 2008)

Publications/Activities

Lexology Panoramic - Financial Services Litigation 2024: Korea Chapter (Co-author, Law Business Research, 2024)
Lexology Getting the Deal Through - Financial Services Litigation 2023: Korea Chapter (Co-author, Law Business Research, 2023)
Lexology Getting the Deal Through - Financial Services Litigation: Korea Chapter (Co-author, Law Business Research, 2020)
Getting the Deal Through - Securities Litigation: Korea Chapter (Co-author, Law Business Research, 2019)
Getting the Deal Through - Financial Services Litigation: Korea Chapter (Co-author, Law Business Research, 2017-2018)
Research on the private issue of convertible bond to the third party (LL.M. Thesis)
Study on Settlement in Securities Class Action (Ph.D. Dissertation)
Settlement in Securities Class Action (Kyungin Publishing Co.)

Education

Harvard Law School (LL.M., 2009)

Graduate School of Law, Seoul National University (Ph. D., Law, 2006)

School of Law, Seoul National University (LL.M., 2000)

Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (1998)

College of Law, Seoul National University (LL.B., 1996)

Qualifications

Admitted to bar, Korea, 1998

Languages

Korean, English and Japanese

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