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KOREA PRACTICE ABOUT O’MELVENY & MYERS For over a century, O’Melveny has been helping clients navigate the complex and competitive business landscape. What began as a two-man office in Los Angeles is now a leading international firm with significant resources in major financial and political centers around the world. Our clients include many of the world’s best- known brands in electronics, energy, manufacturing, software, finance and banking, and telecommunications. As businesses, governments, and individuals face ever-changing circumstances, O’Melveny is dedicated to providing innovative counseling that delivers practical results. Our commitment to our clients’ success reflects the Firm’s guiding principles of uncompromising excellence, distinctive leadership, and superior citizenship. We will continue to enhance O’Melveny’s internal resources to help overcome clients’ challenges: sophisticated legal technology, greater lawyer diversity, and professional development. We are optimistic about the future—for our clients, our communities, and our world. WHat MAKES O’Melveny & MYERS DIFFERENT? OUR VALUES Our Firm’s core values are excellence, leadership, and citizenship— and these values are the guiding light for all that we do. OUR APPROACH We strive to be trusted advisors for our clients, and recognize that the adept handling of creative transactions and high-stakes litigation is but one facet of the value we can offer to clients in pursuing their highest strategic objectives. OUR RELATIONSHIPS We seek to build lasting bonds with our clients, and take a long- term approach in the ways we can assist our clients in advancing their business objectives. OUR CoMMITMENT TO ASIA We have been a leader in the Asia market for nearly three decades. Our lawyers resident in Asia offer clients the competitive advantage of significant on-the-ground resources, deep business and government contacts, and an institutional knowledge of how business is done on a local level. “ Opening an office in Seoul allows O’Melveny to integrate itself into Korean society. We hope to make meaningful contributions to the community. ” — Bradley J. Butwin Chairman, O’Melveny & Myers LLP O’Melveny IN KOREA With the opening of the Korean legal market in 2012, O’Melveny & Myers established a “foreign legal consultant office” in Seoul, Korea —the Firm’s 15th office* worldwide. O’Melveny ranks among the most active international law firms in Korea. We have represented Korean clients in a variety of sectors in antitrust investigation, patent litigation and M&A, and have achieved a number of high-profile victories. From defending Korean clients in high-stakes, US-based “make or break” intellectual property or class action litigation to navigating global antitrust and competition issues involving Korean parties to sophisticated restructurings, financings, and other corporate transactions in the Korea market, O’Melveny’s Korea Practice offers the dedicated resources, deep experience, and breadth of service to provide effective, efficient counsel. *The Seoul office of O’Melveny & Myers LLP is a foreign legal consultant office approved by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Korea. Under the Foreign Legal Consultant Act of Korea, our Seoul office is only allowed to provide legal advice with respect to US law, with respect to treaties of which the United States is a party, and with respect to universally recognized customary international law. Our Seoul office is allowed to represent clients in international arbitration cases unless US law is not applicable. We work in cooperation with a number of Korean law firms. Should you require a legal opinion in respect of any Korean law matter, we would be happy to assist you in obtaining one from a Korean firm. KOREA Practice Overview Nearly two dozen lawyers with many years of experience advising on some of the Korea market’s most complex and high-profile legal and business matters Proven track record of helping clients succeed: we have worked with many of Korea’s largest and best-known companies to achieve landmark victories in multibillion-dollar international disputes and close strategically important cross-border acquisitions and financing transactions Strong relationships and deep knowledge built over more than two decades of activity in the Korea market: we are part of the Korean business and legal community, and members of our team have experience serving on boards of Korean companies and as members of Korean governmental and non-profit organizations Deep experience working with clients in a wide variety of industries, including technology, electronics, energy and energy equipment, manufacturing, airlines and transportation, entertainment and sports, and pharmaceuticals and life sciences KOREA Practice Capabilities Antitrust Patent LITIGation Track record for successfully handling—and winning— Deep experience litigating patent and technology some of the largest and most high-profile antitrust matters in US trial and appellate forums as well matters—including the US$12 billion SK Hynix case as handling Section 337 proceedings before the (a victory named one of the Top Defense Verdicts International Trade Commission—representative of 2011 by the Daily Journal), the defense of Asiana victories include the successful defense of Samsung Airlines in antitrust class actions alleging price-fixing, in patent infringement lawsuits brought by a and the voluntary dismissal of Samsung Electronics Japanese competitor from In re Cathode Ray Tube Antitrust Litigation ENERGY AND Natural RESOURCES Business LITIGation Global practice focuses on all aspects of business World-class litigation team specializes in handling and legal counseling for clients engaged in the complex, high-stakes commercial, securities, and energy sector, and advises on corporate, M&A, other disputes, and features an extremely strong track project finance and development, litigation, and record—our litigators have won four of every five cases regulatory matters for oil and gas, utilities, wind, solar, that we have taken to trial, with countless other cases and hydroelectric sector clients, as well as those settled favorably in pre-trial and discovery stages developing innovative renewable energy technologies FCPA Corporate AND Transactional Team of former US Department of Justice and Diverse experience advising energy, manufacturing, Securities and Exchange Commission officials technology, heavy industrials, pharmaceuticals and counsels clients on compliance with the FCPA and life sciences, airline, entertainment and media, and other anti-bribery measures—including the design of financial sector clients on cross-border acquisitions, effective compliance programs, advising on business investments, and financings involving Korea—as practices, assisting with interactions with regulators well as on diverse corporate and compliance matters RANKINGS AND RecoGNITIONS Achievements continually recognized by The American Lawyer in its “Litigation Department of the Year” Award —O’Melveny is one of only two law firms to have been named a winner, finalist, or honorable mention recipient each year the competition has been held Named for five consecutive years toC orporate Board Member’s list of top corporate law firms Named to Law360’s Global 20 list of top law firms “with the greatest global reach and expertise” KOREA Practice 36 lawyers and 27 practice practice areas recognized for their Representative Clients leadership in Chambers Global (2014) ASIANA AIRLINES Tier 1 rankings in 11 practice areas in US News & World Report’s CJ E&M “Best Law Firms” FILA The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific recommends 15 O’Melveny lawyers, five HealtHCARE Celltrion of whom are “Leading Individuals” in their practice areas and ranks the firm in 24 practice categories across Asia (2014) HYUNDAI Heavy INDustries HYUNDAI MOBIS Mergermarket’s H1 M&A league tables rank us in the top 5 in Asia, HYUNDAI Motor GROUP and top 10 in the United States and globally (2014) KIA Ranked #2 on The American Lawyer’s prestigious “A-List” of the top KUMHO PETROCHEMICAL law firms in the US (2014) NCSOFT POSCO ENERGY They understand what a SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS “ SK HYNIX global company needs. They are truly diligent, will work around the clock and are very service-oriented. — Chambers Asia Pacific ” KOREA Practice Contacts Joseph KIM (조셉김) Partner, Head of Korea Practice Partner, Los Angeles +1-213-430-6511 [email protected] Jinwon PARK (박진원) Of Counsel*, Seoul +852 3512-4042 [email protected] Sungyong KANG (강성룡) Of Counsel*, Seoul +852 3512-4043 [email protected] Youngwook SHIN (신영욱) Counsel, Los Angeles +1-213-430-7440 [email protected] SEOUL OFFICE: O’Melveny & Myers LLP Foreign Legal Consultant Office 23rd F. Meritz Tower, 382 Gangnam-daero Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-934, Korea +82-2-6281-1700 *미국변호사 (미국법자문사, Foreign Legal Consultant) www.omm.com (English) www.omm.kr.com (Korean) OFFICES BEIJING Brussels Century CITY HONG KONG LONDON Los ANGELES NEW YORK Newport BeacH SAN Francisco SEOUL SHANGHAI Silicon VALLEY SINGAPORE Tokyo WasHINGton, DC.
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