Corporate Governance & Shareholder Disputes
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 domestic or overseas branches and subsidiaries
- Matters concerning the general meeting of shareholders and the board of directors
- Stock equity and stock acquisition strategy, and other management rights issues
- Problems related to asset purchase, business transfer, asset and liabilities underwriting, etc.
- Employee labor issues and labor-management relations, etc.
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- Advised on establishment of Woori Bank subsidiary
- Advised on the establishment of POSCO ICT Indonesia
- Advised on the establishment of Mr. Pizza Indonesia
- Advised on the establishment and operation of POSCO PNS Russia and Singapore corporations
- Representation of Accom for cancellation of lien and claims against Meritz
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- Advised on Facility Agreement for Agilent's business transfer
- Advised Agilent on changes to IBC LEASE AGREEMENT
- Agilent's labor advice
- Advised Bluesport on the change of the articles of incorporation, management change, and name change
- Advised Brightcove (a global cloud solution provider) on labor related matters
- Preparation of exclusive sales contract for CL Pharm
- Advised on obtaining a D9 visa for the dispatch of Italian nationals
- Preparation of a labor contract for a local corporation in the Netherlands Orga International
- Review of labor contract related to Tekna's recruitment of local corporations in Canada
- Advised Dogtra on layoffs
- Advised on information protection related to French Farfetch’s website entry into Korea
- Advised a Chinese sponsor on the acquisition of the League of Legends team, and Advised on the termination and renewal of the sponsorship agreement
- Advised on tax exemption of merchant fees of Hiplus (electronic payment service)
- Advised Histostem in dispute over management rights
- Advised Hite Jinro on intellectual property rights
- Advised Hurom on compliance with the Kim Young-ran Act
- Advised on the spin-off of Isu Chemical Co., Ltd. (100 billion won)
- Preparation of sales contract for JW Pharmaceutical
- Advised on Hong Kong KEB Hana Global Finance Lease Agreement
- Advised KEPCO KPS on O&M contract for power plant in India
- Advised Kexim on extending mortgage registration for Qingdao Misung Electronics Co., Ltd. in China
- Advised a Korean subsidiary of Kodak alaris on labor related matters
- Advised on privatization of Korea District Heating Corporation (worth 1.2 trillion won)
- Advised Korea Merchant Marine on its acquisition of shares in an African company
- Advised KT&G on correction of corporate registration
- Advised Gwangjin Faurecia on management disputes
- Advised on LOC retirement benefits and dismissal
- Various legal advisory services for SMEs
- Advised Mtek Vision on mutual license and intellectual property rights in Singapore development with a Canadian company
- Advised the National Tax Service on the establishment of a T/F related to tax arrears
- Advised Nature Republic on various corporate legal affairs
- New York Times employment contract drafting
- Advised US Office Depot on e-commerce in Korea
- Orga International B.V.'s agreement writing
- Advised PAL on the sale of Warehouse
- Advised on the spin-off of Pan Asia Logistics' Korean subsidiary in Singapore and represented in international arbitration litigation.
- Preparation of equity purchase contract for POSCO E&C
- Advised on POSCO Energy’s solar power generation project in Nevada, USA, and labor-related advice for POSCO’s domestic affiliates
- Advised on the transfer of Rakuten's stake in ESTmob between affiliates
- Advised on the closure of S1’s Russian research institute and branch
- Represented SK Telecom in litigation related to the sale of mobile communication devices and advised on various corporate legal affairs
- Advised on the disposal of distressed assets in Russia, including Shin Dong-A Construction
- Represented Vittoria Industries in collection of accounts payable and criminal cases
- Advised Wargaming.Net in Singapore regarding unfair dismissal lawsuit
- Advised Woori Bank on the sale of a non-performing loan of USD 138 billion
- Advised on the establishment of a subsidiary of Woori Bank
- Management dispute lawsuit between Carl Icahn and KT&G (hostile M&A)
- Management dispute lawsuit between KCC and Hyundai Elevator (hostile M&A)
- Advised Bosung Industrial on the review of arbitration contract clauses
- Advised Gwangjin Faurecia on management disputes
- Histostem, management dispute advisory
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Jee Ung CHEONG
Foreign Attorney
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