Corporate
DR&AJU offers a wide range of professional legal services for general corporate matters, including corporate governance structure, composition and operation of the board of directors and shareholder's meeting, strategic alliance, management defense, restructuring, capitalization issues, shareholder disputes, and commercial disputes and transactions. Furthermore, we provide advanced legal services related to the establishment of domestic subsidiaries for foreign companies, establishment of a joint venture, branch and liaison office, foreign exchange, etc. In particular, we offer our prestigious legal services related to venture or IT companies in high-tech industries, from establishment of the corporation to listing on the KOSDAQ.
In the current corporate environment where corporate structures are becoming more complex, various corporate disputes related to shareholder's rights, corporate ethics, dissemination of corporate public offerings, increased interests on the responsibility of directors, etc. arise. These disputes can easily expand beyonds the internal limits of the company and grow exponentially to become a social problem. Therefore, efforts for adequate conciliation are becoming a necessity. DR&AJU offers its comprehensive legal services to address such corporate disputes effectively and successfully. Furthermore, ethical management and social responsibility of corporations are becoming a phenomenon recognized over the world, as can be seen from the FCPA of the U.S. and Anti-graft laws of Korea. Legislations and law enforcements are taking extra steps to enforce ethical management and anti-corruption. DR&AJU also offers experienced counsel in issues of anti-corruption, improvement and analysis of internal management system for subsidiaries, compliance training for employees, implementation of bylaws on anti-corruption and associated programs, internal audits and response to investigations by regulators.
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- Establishment of a branch or subsidiary in Korea or overseas
- General advice on shareholder's meetings and board meetings
- Strategies on the purchase of shares and other issues regarding management
- Issues on purchase of assets, transfer of business, purchase of asset liability, etc.
- Labor disputes and employment relations, etc.
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- Legal advice on the establishment of business management plan including business operation planning and performance of the plan
- Participate and advise on drafting contracts, produce and review legal opinions/memorandum, negotiations, etc.
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- Advised Woori Bank on the establishment of a subsidiary.
- Advised POSCO ICT on the establishment of a corporation in Indonesia.
- Advised Mr. Pizza on the establishment of a corporation in Indonesia.
- Advised POSCO P&S on the establishment and operation of corporations in Russia and Singapore.
- Represented Accom in a lawsuit against Meritz for the cancellation of a mortgage and request for damages.
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- Advised Agilent on the Facility Agreement for the transfer of business.
- Advised Agilent on the revision of the IBC Lease Agreement.
- Advised Agilent on labor issues.
- Advised Bluesport on the revision of its Articles of Incorporation, change of directors, change of business name.
- Advised Brightcove (a worldwide cloud solution company) on its labor issues.
- Advised CL Pharm on an exclusive sales contract.
- Advised on obtaining a D9 visa for the secondment of an Italian employee.
- Advised Orga International (a Dutch company) on the drafting of employment agreement for its Korean subsidiary.
- Advised Tekna (a Canadian company) on its employment agreement for its Korean subsidiary.
- Advised Dogtra on terminating its employees.
- Advised Farfetch (a French company) on personal information issues related to its website in Korea.
- Advised a Chinese sponsor on the purchase of a League of Legends team, termination of the existing sponsorship agreement and execution of a new agreement.
- Advised Hiplus (electronic payment service provider) on the exemption of tax for the franchise fees.
- Advised Hucord on the dispute over the control of company.
- Advised Hite Jinro on an issue related to intellectual property rights.
- Advised Hurom on its compliance of the Improper Solicitation and Graft Act.
- Advised Isu Chemical on its corporate division (approx. KRW 100 billion).
- Advised JW Pharmaceutical on sales contracts.
- Advised KEB Hana Global Finance Hong Kong on its Lease Agreement.
- Advised KEPCO KPS on its O&M contract regarding a power plant in India.
- Advised Kexim on the extension of registration of a mortgage regarding Qingdao Misung Electronics Co., Ltd. in China.
- Advised Kodak Alaris on labor issues of its Korean subsidiary.
- Advised on the privatization of the Korea District Heating Corporation (approx. KRW 1.2 trillion).
- Advised Korea Shipping Corporation on its purchase of shares of an African company.
- Advised KT&G on the amendment of its corporate registration.
- Advised Kwangjin Faurecia on the dispute over the control of company.
- Advised LOC on the severance payments and termination of employment.
- Advised SMEs regarding various legal issues.
- Advised the Canadian subsidiary of Mtek Vision regarding mutual licensing and intellectual property rights for the development project in Singapore.
- Advised the National Tax Service on the establishment of a T/F regarding tax arrearage.
- Advised Nature Republic regarding various legal issues.
- Advised New York Times on its employment agreement.
- Advised Office Depot regarding e-commerce in Korea.
- Advised Orga International B.V. on a settlement agreement.
- Advised Pan Asia Logistics on its sales of a warehouse.
- Advised and represented Pan Asia Logistics regarding the corporate division of its Korean subsidiary and international arbitration.
- Advised POSCO E&C on its share purchase agreement.
- Advised POSCO Energy on its solar power generation project in Nevada U.S., and advised POSCO’s affiliate on its labor issue.
- Advised Rakuten on the transfer of shares of ESTmob within its affiliates.
- Advised S-1 on the closing of its Russian research facilities and branch.
- Advised and represented SK Telecom regarding a lawsuit on the sale of mobile communication devices and other corporate legal issues.
- Advised Shindongah E&C and other on the disposal of non-performing assets in Russia.
- Represented Vittoria Industries regarding the collection of unpaid accounts and criminal lawsuit.
- Advised Wargaming.net from Singapore regarding a lawsuit on wrongful termination.
- Advised Woori Bank on the disposal of non-performing loans in the amount of USD 138Million.
- Represented KT&G in a lawsuit on the control of the company against Carl Icahn (hostile M&A).
- Represented KCC in a lawsuit on the control of the company against Hyundai Elevator (hostile M&A).
- Advised Bosung Industry on a contract clause on arbitration.
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Joachim Nowak
Foreign Attorney
Hyo Shang KANG
Senior Advisor
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Byung Chul KIM
Senior Advisor
Woo Hyeon KIM
Managing Partner
Chang Bo KIM
Managing Partner
Seok Ho MOON
Expert Counsel
Kyung Tak (Kenneth) MIN
Foreign Attorney
Elena MIN
Foreign Attorney
Melissa PARK
Foreign Attorney
Sung-Soo (Alex) PARK
Foreign Attorney
Jaesung (Jason) PARK
Foreign Attorney
Grace Jung Eun PARK
Attorney
Woo Sung BAE
Senior Advisor
Ji Hyun BYUN
Senior Advisor
Sang Jo YEO
Honorary Managing Partner
Kwang Soo OH
Managing Partner
Seung Cheol LEE
Senior Advisor
Jeong Ran LEE
Managing Partner
Jin Gyoo CHUNG
Honorary Managing Partner
Bong Hwan CHO
Senior Advisor
Kyeong Won CHOI
Legal Counsel
Seung Won CHOI
Foreign Attorney
Young Jin CHOI
Senior Advisor
Jeeseon CHOI
Partner, Co-Head DACH Team
Timothy DICKENS
Foreign Attorney
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