Jae Woo Jung
Lee & KoLee & Ko houses a deep bench known for its broad expertise spanning the life sciences, financial services, and shipping sectors. Practice co-head Kyunghoon Lee is well-known for his deep knowledge of cross-border regulatory compliance, often advising global corporations. Co-head Tae Yop Lee utilises his prosecution experience to handle cases involving trade-related issues, corporate crime, and personal data management, while co-head Sedong Min is noted for his broad corporate and anti-corruption expertise. Jae Woo Jung is recommended for his distinctive focus on election fraud-related cases. Dividing his time between Pangyo and Seoul, You Chull Jung draws on his prior expertise in the Financial Services Commission to assist with cases involving breach of trust and embezzlement by public companies.
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‘The team is composed with very talented attorneys and provide us with proactive strategy and comments. The team always cooperate very well with our firm and always provide us with customised opinions on our situation.’
Key clients
- Discovery Asset Management
- Novozymes A/S
- JW Pharmaceutical
- Dunamu Inc.
- Ildong Pharmaceutical
- KB Securities
- Agricultural Bank of China
- Wan Hai Lines
- Jusung Engineering
- SK Multi Utility
Work highlights
- Represented Discovery Asset Management, obtaining dismissals of arrest warrants on the representative two times for the alleged violation of the Financial Investment Services And Capital Markets Act.
- Represented Novozymes in the merger filing for Novozymes’ merger with Chr. Hansen and successfully obtained unconditional clearance of the USD 12.3 billion transaction from the Korea Fair Trade Commission.
- Secured a no guilty verdict before the Supreme Court on behalf of officers and employees of Dunamu Inc., operator of a global virtual asset exchange in a case involving a fraud claim worth millions of dollars.
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Tae Yop Lee
Lee & KoPractice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Kyunghoon Lee, Taeyop Lee, Sedong Min