Han Woo PARK - Kim & Chang

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Han Woo Park is an attorney at Kim & Chang’s antitrust and competition, corporate governance, foreign direct investment, and mergers & acquisitions practices. He practices in the area of corporate law, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions and antitrust law. Mr. Park has extensive experience advising clients in the automobile industries in licensing, antitrust, labor and employment, and tax and customs.

Mr. Park has advised a number of automobile, machinery, chemicals, and household goods manufacturing corporations in both cross-border and domestic transactions, and has extensive experience of advising American and European corporations.

After serving in the Korean Army as a judge advocate, Mr. Park joined Kim & Chang in 1994. Mr. Park was on detached duty at Clifford Chance in New York and Hong Kong branches until 2000. After the detached duty and starting from advising Renault Samsung Motors Co., Ltd. on its acquisition of Samsung Motors business, he has advised on various foreign investment, M&A and antitrust related issues. In 2005 he participated as a working staff in the Ministry of Justice to help improve the business environment to amend the corporation laws. Since 2010, he has been providing related legal advice to clients in the automobile industry.

Mr. Park has authored “Anti-Dumping Law Requirement” in the journal “Fair Competition” in 1997. He has also co-authored the Korea chapter of “European Lawyer Reference - Leniency Regimes (third edition).”

Mr. Park received an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 1999, and his LL.B. from Seoul National University College of Law in 1989. He attended the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea in 1991. He is admitted to the Korean bar.

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Experience

Clifford Chance, Hong Kong (2000)

Clifford Chance, London (1999)

Kim & Chang (1994-Present)

Judge Advocate, Republic of Korea Army (1991-1994)

Representative Mattersshow

Mergers & Acquisitions

Advised on the merger and acquisition of domestic and overseas supplies companies.
Advised a domestic telecommunication company in its acquisition of a semiconductor company.
Advised a multinational machinery manufacturing company in its acquisition of a domestic machinery manufacturing company.
Advised a steel manufacturing company in its acquisition of a trading company.
Advised a multinational energy company’s sale of shares of a domestic energy company.
Advised domestic household goods companies in its acquisition of a beverage company.
Advised a construction company in its acquisition of another construction company.
Advised a semiconductor company’s acquisition of another semiconductor company’s IC system business.
Advised a multinational automobile company in its business acquisition of a domestic automobile company.

Antitrust & Competition

Advised a multinational chemical manufacturing company on its case of unfair corporate action.
Advised a multinational electronics company on its case of resale price maintenance and unfair transaction.
Advised a fertilizer manufacturing company on its case of unfair corporate action.
Advised a life insurance company on its case of unlawful corporate action and unfair transaction.
Advised a cable broadcasting company on its case of unfair corporate action and unfair transaction.
Advised an electronics company on its case of resale price maintenance.
Advised a multinational machine manufacturing company on its case of unfair corporate action.
Advised a pharmaceutical company on its case of unfair transaction.
Advised a food manufacturing company on its case of unfair transaction.
Advised a chemical manufacturing company on its case of unfair transaction.
Advised a household goods manufacturing company on its case of unfair transaction.
Advised a steel manufacturing company on its case of unfair transaction.