Mergers & Acquisitions; Financial Disputes; Investor Disputes; Bankruptcy Litigation; Tax Disputes; Tax Advisory; Tax Investigation; Accounting Regulation; Customs & International Trade; Tax Defense; Inheritance and Gift Tax; Electronic Banking & Fintech

Partner

Mr. Hyoung Woo Kim is a Partner in the Finance Group and Financial Disputes Team. He became a certified public accountant (CPA) in 2002 before being admitted to the Korean bar in 2006. During his time as a CPA, he worked on audits, asset securitizations, sales of non-performing loans and real estate development within the financial consulting division of Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Mr. Kim’s main areas of practice expertise include advice and representation on: project financings, asset securitizations, and bond issuances; diverse finance-related disputes relating to the incomplete sales of KIKO currency options and subordinated bonds of savings banks, KOSPI 200 market-rigging allegations against Deutsche Bank, and accounting fraud allegations against DSME and Samsung Biologics; M&As and management disputes; insolvency related matters ranging from corporate rehabilitation to bankruptcy; tax related disputes; and general advice to a vast array of public institutional clients such as the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of SMEs and Startups, Government Employees Pension Service, and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power.

Mr. Kim holds a B.A. in English Education from Seoul National University and an M.A. in Engineering from Korea University.

He is a member of the Korean Bar.

Admitted to bar, Korea, 2010Certified Public Accountant, Korea, 2002

Korea University Graduate School of Computer & Information Technology (M.A. in Engineering, 2019-Present)Seoul Bar Association Practical Training in Bankruptcy & Restructuring (2016)Seoul Bar Association Practical Training in Securities & Finance (2015)Training at The Korean Institute of Certified Public Accounts (2009)Training on securities & financing at Korea Securities Institute (2008)Seoul National University (B.A. in English Education, 2005)