About this office:
Shin & Kim was founded in 1981 and has been long been recognized as a pre-eminent full service international law firm. Given the size, experience and resources of Shin & Kim, we have been consistently at the forefront of major transactions in Korea providing effective and cost-efficient legal services to domestic and foreign clients.
With more than 300 professionals, including Korean attorneys, foreign legal consultants, patent attorneys, tax attorneys and certified public accountants, Shin & Kim is one of the largest and resourceful law firms in Korea. Shin & Kim is widely recognized for its excellence in the areas of M&A, banking and finance, capital markets, corporate restructuring, monopoly regulation and fair trade, cross-border investment, tax, labor and employment, real estate and intellectual property, and has earned a reputation for providing superior representation to clients in litigation and other complicated legal disputes.
Our clients include Fortune 500 companies, Korean conglomerates, foreign and domestic companies, individuals and governmental entities. Through our network of relationships with leading law firms around the world, we are able to provide our clients with the highest standard of legal services for even the most complex cross-border transactions.
Shin & Kim now has overseas offices in Beijing and Shanghai. From this new base of operations, the firm's already active China practice group will be able to provide seamless legal representation to our clients throughout East Asia and beyond.
Specific Practice & Industry Groups Details:
Statement of Practice Summary:
Banking Law; Finance; Corporate Restructuring; Energy; Fair Trade; Intellectual Property; Labor And Employment; Litigation; Arbitration; Mergers And Acquisitions; Real Estate; Construction Law; Bankruptcy; Tax Law.
Year Established: 1981
Representative Clients:
Merrill Lynch; Qualcomm; JP Morgan; IBM Korea, Inc.; Samsung SDS; Korean Securities Law Association; BNP Paribas; Nomura Securities; UBS; The Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM); Hynix Semiconductor Inc; Samsung Motors; Singapore Power International; International Petroleum Investment Company; Fila Korea; Gruppo FERRERO; KT&G; Organon; POSCO; Audi Korea; General Electric Capital Corporation; American International Group Inc.; LaSalle Investment Management; Lehman Brothers; ING Real Estate; KB Asset; Hyundai Oil Bank.
Languages: Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese, French, German and Russian.