KL Partners’ comprehensive service encompasses not only the traditional litigation fields, such as civil, criminal, administrative, labor, conservation (provisional attachment, injunction), and compulsory enforcement, but also specialized fields, including M&A and management rights dispute (acquisition/defense strategies related to hostile takeovers, holding of shareholders meetings,injunctions or lawsuits on the merits regarding executive positions), securities and finance (lawsuits involving transactions on funds or options, securitization, structured financing, investment trust, insurance), antitrust, intellectual property rights (injunctions or lawsuits on the merits involving infringement of patents, trademarks or copyrights, employee poaching) and healthcare (civil or criminal lawsuits involving medical malpractice, medical administrative lawsuit) and construction.

KL Partners Litigation Practice Group is comprised of partners with more than 20 years of legal experience as a judge and/or a lawyer in the largest law firms in Korea, as well as associate lawyers with experience as a trial researcher. The partners’ extensive and diverse experience combined with our associates’ enthusiasm enable us to provide holistic and effective representation for our clients.

CIVIL

• Represented a smart learning company in a lawsuit against its competitor for the infringement of trade secrets, and obtained a favorable judgment for the client
• Various product liability lawsuits, including successfully representing a domestic carmaker and an import carmaker in a lawsuit concerning sudden unintended acceleration, and a domestic pharmaceutical company in a lawsuit related to baby powder containing asbestos

CRIMINAL

• M&A-related criminal case
• Cases involving embezzlement, misappropriation, etc. by major shareholders and / or representative directors
• Finance-related criminal cases concerning securities and / or unfair transactions
• Criminal cases involving the antitrust law

ADMINISTRATIVE / LABOR

• Represented domestic and overseas pharmaceutical companies in lawsuits seeking cancellation of administrative decision on product licensing, drug pricing and reevaluation, and obtained favorable judgments for the client
• Represented an employer in an appeal against the lower court’s decision on unlawful termination and unlawful job change, and obtained a favorable judgment for the client

CONSTRUCTION

• Represented construction companies in lawsuits for construction cost, and obtained favorable judgments for the clients
• Represented building owners in lawsuits concerning defect repair, and obtained favorable judgments for the client
• Represented multiple construction companies in various injunction proceedings and the lawsuit on the merits, concerning appointment of executives for reconstruction / redevelopment projects, holding general meeting of residents, etc.
• Represented reconstruction union members in an administrative lawsuit to cancel the management’s approved plan
• Represented criminal cases involving possible violations of the Urban and Residential Environment Improvement Act

M&A AND MANAGEMENT RIGHTS DISPUTE

• Representation of a domestic company in its management rights dispute and personnel change in the executive management team and in the nullification of dismissal suit brought by the previous executive management team
• Advised clients on takeover or defense strategy in hostile M&As
• Represented clients in injunction proceedings concerning holding of general shareholders’meeting, shareholder proposal, agenda item proposal, and perusal and copying of shareholder register
• Lawsuits concerning corporate executives’ position, such as injunction proceedings to suspend executives’duties
• Lawsuits concerning general shareholders’ meeting, such as application for permission to convene a shareholders’ meeting, injunction against holding the shareholders’ meeting, and cancellation of resolution of the shareholders’ meeting

SECURITIES AND FINANCE

• Representation of complex commodity trading company in Singapore in the lawsuit for seeking to recover funds for trade accompanying criminal accusations
• Representation of a foreign company in a dispute involving one of its retail stores in Korea for liquidated damages
• Representation of a German farm equipment manufacturing company in the lawsuit related to termination of the distribution agreement and liquidated damages
• Representation of a company in a bond investigation confirmation trial on the receivable against the counterparty’s rehabilitation custodian
• Advised and represented financial institutions on dispute involving KIKO (Knock-in Knock-out), Snowball, and problematic offshore funds that have been widely reported in the media
• Represented a foreign investment company in lawsuits against a domestic securities company concerning option transactions based on the DMA contract
• Litigations and advisory work involving asset securitization and structured financing, investment trusts, private equity funds, and/or insurance

ANTITRUST

• Represented a domestic heavy industry company in a lawsuit to cancel the KFTC’s decision on collusion, and obtained a favorable decision for the client
• Represented an oil refinery company in a lawsuit to cancel the KFTC’s decision on oil collusion
• Represented a domestic entertainment company in a lawsuit to cancel the KFTC’s decision relating to violation of the Electronic Commerce Act

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

• Infringement lawsuits concerning patents, trademarks and/or copyrights
• Injunction and damages lawsuits related to employee poaching
• IP-related criminal cases including those involving leakage of trade secrets and/or technology

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Arbitration

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Corporate / M&A

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