As today’s management environments are becoming more complex, businesses are facing a variety of crises that they have never experienced before. Such crises arise in a broad range of areas including disasters, politics, economics, law, regulation, labor, customer management, human rights, and information leakage. In addition, as IT and social media have become an increasingly prominent part of today’s society, now businesses are vulnerable to spread of such crises, which may lead to significant damage to the business’s image and reputation. This means that the businesses must establish an adequate crisis management system to prevent possible damages caused by crises as well as critical hits of loss of business value.
Crisis management requires meticulous legal decisions as it is inextricably linked with legal liability issues, but a wider perspective on the problem and consideration of social responsibility is just as important to successful crisis management.
Through our Crisis Management (CM) team, Jipyong provides one-stop services as well as perfect systems to support businesses’ crisis management and response. Jipyong’s CM team knows the importance of the multiplicity of perspectives and consilience. The team is comprised of Korean and foreign attorneys with hands-on experience and comprehensive expertise in litigation, legal advice, international dispute, and various regulatory areas. With our crisis-control specialists who have a plethora of knowledge and experience in PR, communications, and managerial decision, the CM team has a competitive edge in responding to the interested parties to a crisis such as media, government, and customer and always provides total crisis management services.
Key Practice Areas Close
- Due diligence to identify risks;
- Advice on establishing a crisis-prevention system; and
- Advice on creating a crisis-management manual
- Assessment and diagnosis of crisis/critical incident (internal investigation);
- Participation in TF to defend against the crisis;
- Responding to investigations by various regulatory authorities;
- Advice on the relations between customers, investors, and suppliers;
- All kinds of litigation related to crisis; and
- Supporting PR and communications
- Advice on legal issues and other issues related to regulation and finance that may result from the crisis;
- Advice on establishing measures to prevent recurrence;
- Assessment on the response to the crisis and ex-post investigation; and
- Advice on change in governance, etc.
Step 1. Crisis Prevention
Preliminary measures to prevent crisis by analyzing possible risks and vulnerability of a business and reflecting such risks and vulnerability in its crisis-management/response plans;
Step 2. Crisis Response
Responsive measures to minimize damages through prompt and appropriate initial responses;
Step 3. Follow-up Measures during Crisis Recovery
Measures during the crisis recovery to prevent recurrence through assessment of crisis;
Experience Close
- Advised a public institution on investigation and examination of the causes and the burdens of responsibility, etc. with regard to an earthquake
- Advised a public institution on its measures against an explosion of a hydrogen charging facility
- Advised a company on dissemination of information detrimental to the Company through online new outlets
- Advised a famous conductor on his response to the press release
- Advised a semiconductor company on comprehensive inspection of fair trade issues
- Advised a steel company on comprehensive inspection of fair trade issues
- Advised a heavy industry company on fair trade issues
- Advised a company on its response to the KFTC’s inspection of unfair subcontract transactions
- Advised an affiliate of a company on crisis management including its response to the National Assembly with respect to compliance management
- Advised an association on crisis management with respect to an amendment to the Local Public Enterprises Act (the amendment would lead to risk of abolition of all the enterprises of the association)
- Advised the Independent Power Producer Association on crisis management with respect to an LNG pricing system based on each individual contract with the generators (an adoption of such system would be seriously detrimental to the association’s management condition)
- Advised a representative of an accounting firm on crisis management with respect to being an witness of an inspection of state administration
- Advised a company’s affiliate on an inspection in advance of its in-house subcontracting practices
- Advised a company on an inspection in advance of labor issues in general
- Advised a public corporation on an inspection in advance of its in-house subcontracting practices
- Advised a company on an inspection in advance of labor issues in general (in order to address possible labor issues that may arise after establishment of a labor union)
- Advised a company on an inspection in advance of labor issues in general (Jipyong formed a consortium with a labor law firm for this legal consultation)
- Advised a company’s affiliate on an inspection in advance of its in-house subcontracting practices
- Advised a company on an inspection in advance of general labor issues such as legal definition of worker, etc.
- Advised a company on an inspection in advance of general labor issues such as the legal definition of worker, etc. (including issues related to the legal definition of worker arising from a person who has become an individual business owner through establishment of its subsidiary)
- Advised several public institutions on conversion of contract workers to permanent employees
- Advised on validity of internal disciplinary actions of a company
- Advised a foreign-affiliated company on labor issues arising from liquidation and its negotiations with the labor union
- Advised a company on workplace sexual harassment
- Advised a foreign joint venture on its inspection of a reported workplace bullying case and the case-related legal issues
- Advised a company on its assistance and support to a victim of workplace sexual harassment (e.g. criminal action, settlement of an agreement)
- Advised a company on its inspection of a reported workplace bullying case
- Advised a company on collective bargaining with the labor union
- Advised a foreign joint venture on a reported workplace bullying case
- Advised a corporation on its response to embezzlement and breach of labor law by former and current executives and employees
- Represented and advised employees of a bank’s affiliate in connection with their strike and a lawsuit related to a demand to convert into permanent position
- Represented and advised employees of a company’s subsidiary (a subsidiary of SPC Group) in a lawsuit against them for illegal demonstration (preliminary injunction against defamation, etc.)
- Represented and advised believers of a church who oppose hereditary pastoral succession of the church in various disputes with the church
- Advised automobile parts manufacturers on their negotiations with labor unions and illegal strikes, etc.
- Advised a foundation on its employees’ embezzlement of research funds related to a research project entrusted by the government
- Advised a public enterprise on its response to a complaint filed to the Ministry of Employment and Labor with respect to illegal dispatch
- Represented a large hospital in a lawsuit alleging unfair labor practices
- Advised an entertainment company on breach of the Labor Standard Act by production staff
- Represented a foreign-affiliated company in responding to a whistleblowing activity and criminal charge filed by an employee
- Advised a movie distributing company on its breach of the Labor Standard Act questioned by an employee
- Represented the believers of a church in a dispute with the church and managed their external communications
- Represented a company in several civil lawsuits in connection with labor disputes (related to wage, severance pay, and labor relations) and a criminal lawsuit (a criminal case against the representative of the company)
- Represented a terrestrial television company in a dispute related to disciplinary measures imposed on the company
