The key professionals of Jipyong’s Criminal Defense (Investigation) Team (the “Team”) are attorneys who previously served as district prosecutors, deputy prosecutors, and senior prosecutors with extensive investigative experience in various subject matters, including special prosecution, public security, finance and securities, and cybersecurity, and attorneys who served at police agencies across the country, including the National Office of Investigation.
The Team, through collaboration with attorneys with prior experience at the prosecution and police, as well as other experts at Jipyong, enables Jipyong to provide defenses tailored to each case, from the initial search and seizure response to the final decision of the investigative agency, thereby delivering the best possible outcomes for our clients.
Key Practice Areas Close
- Criminal cases related to M&A, management rights, and governance reorganization/reform/restructuring, along with cases related to fraud and embezzlement, and breach of trust/professional negligence involving officers and employees of companies.
- Cases related to the violation of the Capital Markets Act such as fraudulent transactions, market manipulation, and use of material nonpublic information, as well as various criminal cases that occur in the process of incomplete sales of financial instruments, issuing and operating financial instruments.
- Cases involving the violation of the Serious Accidents Punishment Act, the violation of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and involuntary manslaughter at workplaces.
- Cases on the violation of the Fair Trade Act such as cartel, internal transaction, and unfair trade practices, and cases on violation of fair trade related provisions, such as the Subcontracting Act, the Act on the Regulation of Terms and Conditions, the Fair Agency Transactions Act, the Installment Transactions Act, the Electronic Commerce Transactions Act, and the Large Retail Business Act.
- Corporate corruption offenses such as misappropriation of political funds and bribery
- Responding to disputes regarding trade secrets, and (industrial) technology leakage, and criminal cases regarding trade secrets, and technology leakage
- Criminal cases on/regarding taxation, customs, and subsidy
General Corporate Crime
Securities and Finance
Serious Industrial Accidents (Workplace/Occupational Safety)
Fair Trade
Corruption Offenses
Trade Secrets and Technology Leakage
TaxationㆍCustomsㆍSubsidy
Experience Close
- Responded to an investigation regarding business/professional fraud and embezzlement/breach of trust/professional negligence by officers and employees of a construction company
- Responded to an investigation regarding the violation of the Capital Markets Act, including market manipulation and the use of undisclosed information by financial group
- Represented an IT company in a lawsuit over trade secret leakage
- Responded to an investigation related to the violation of the Serious Accident Punishment Act and the Occupational Safety and Health Act involving a construction company and a power plant
- Responded to an investigation regarding large-scale safety accidents such as gas leaks and large fires in warehouses
- Responded to a tax evasion investigation related to fraudulent accounting and false tax invoices by a financial company
- Responded to an investigation of fair trade related to toll tax, collusion, and obstruction of investigation by a manufacturing company
- Responded to an investigation regarding the violation of the Act on the Protection of Temporary Workers by a hotel operator
- Defended a financial holding company against the violation of the Trade Union Act
- Responded to an investigation of fraud related to the establishment of virtual asset exchange
- Responded to an investigation regarding the violation of the Public Official Election Act by a member of the National Assembly
- Responded to an investigation of corruption offenses such as bribery by head officials of a local government and bribery of executives and employees in a public company
