Bio
Profile
Experience
Kim & Chang (2020-Present)
Judge, Seoul Eastern District Court (2016-2018)
Judge Advocate, Republic of Korea Navy (2013-2016)
Representative Mattersshow
- Represented a public contractor in an arbitration case concerning a large construction project.
- Represented clients in a number of M&A-related disputes.
- Represented clients in a number of cases regarding shareholder agreements (such as earn-outs, IPO failure or Right of First Refusal clauses).
- Provided assistance regarding the valuation of a professional sports corporation.
- Advised a strategic investor in an injunction case regarding management disputes and shareholder meetings.
- Represented clients in a number of cases regarding Breach of Trust charges.
- Represented a client facing charges regarding import-related regulation infringements.
- Advised directors on embezzlement and misappropriation charges regarding management disputes.
- Advised directors within a large public corporation on securities and accounting fraud charges.
- Advised a founder of a large public entertainment corporation in a securities fraud case regarding its IPO.
- Represented a major pharmaceutical company facing sanctions regarding kick-backs.
- Advised a securities firm regarding sanctions on privacy law infringements.
- Advised on matters regarding corporate finance, such as share buybacks and drafting of shareholders’ agreements.
- Advised on new legislation introducing “directors’ fiduciary duty to shareholders.”
- Advised on possible interpretations and statute amendments regarding the crime of “Breach of Trust.”
- Advised domestic corporations on the application and interpretation of the Serious Accidents Punishment Act.
Representative Activitiesshow
Awards
- Award from the President of Judicial Research and Training Institute of Supreme Court (2013)
Publications/Activities
- Exit from a Silicon Valley Startup with Scant Growth: Lopsided, but Fair Enough?, Seoul Law Journal, Vol.64 No.2 (The SNU Law Research Institute, 2023.6.)
- Legal Implications of Opportunistic Behaviors on Credit Default Swaps: Engineered Defaults and Other Interventions with Credit Events, Justice, Vol. 180 (Korean Society of Law, 2020.10.)
- Opportunism with the Condition Precedent Clause of International OTC Derivatives Contracts: Governance by Contract Law and Bankruptcy Law, and ISDA’s Private Regulation, Financial Derivatives and Law, Vol. 2 (Professor Joon Park Retirement Anniversary) (Sohwa, 2020.8.)
- Suspending the Event-Based Accrual of Extinctive Prescription: The “Objective Discoverability” Standard of Korean Case Law, The Journal of Comparative Private Law, Vol. 25 No. 4 (The Korean Association of Comparative Private Law, 2018.11.)
- What If Your Creditor Is in Default: Condition Precedent of the ISDA Master Agreement, Commercial Law Review, Vol. 33 No. 4 (Korea Commercial Law Association, 2015.2.)
- A Pari-Passu Clause in Financial Contracts: NML Capital v. Argentina, Restructuring of Sovereign Bonds, and Interrelations of Boilerplate Clauses in New York Law, BFL, Vol. 69 (Center for Financial Law, 2015.1.)
- Overview of the Compensation Scheme for Financial Consumers in Regard of Financial Investment Firms: Whether and How to Adopt It, Seoul Law Journal, Vol. 52 No. 1 (The SNU Law Research Institute, 2011.3.)
Education
UC Berkeley School of Law (LL.M., 2020)
Professional Legal Education Program, UC Berkeley School of Law (Certificate in Business Law, 2020)
Graduate School of Law, Seoul National University (Ph.D. Candidate, Commercial Law, 2016)
Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (2013)
Seoul National University (LL.B., 2010)
Qualifications
Admitted to bar, Korea, 2013
Languages
Korean, English and German




