Partner
Suh Hee HAN
Digital Assets Center
Suh Hee Han is a leading practitioner with over ten years of experience advising on and representing clients in the digital assets and digital finance markets. Her practice spans both advisory and dispute matters across the full lifecycle of digital asset and digital finance businesses, with a particular focus on regulatory compliance, market entry, and risk management.
Ms. Han’s experience includes regulatory advice on new business initiatives of digital asset service providers; reporting filings for virtual asset service providers; anti-money laundering (AML) programs and internal control frameworks; ISMS-related compliance; financial institutions’ entry into the digital asset business; overseas stablecoin issuance projects; legal analyses on the nature and classification of digital assets; and matters relating to the issuance and distribution of tokenized securities and investment contract securities. She also advises on applications for regulatory sandbox programs (Innovative Financial Services) in the digital finance sector, as well as broader legislative and policy developments governing digital assets and digital finance.
Ms. Han currently serves as Co-Head of the Virtual Asset Team of Lee & Ko’s Digital Assets Center.
Ms. Han’s experience includes regulatory advice on new business initiatives of digital asset service providers; reporting filings for virtual asset service providers; anti-money laundering (AML) programs and internal control frameworks; ISMS-related compliance; financial institutions’ entry into the digital asset business; overseas stablecoin issuance projects; legal analyses on the nature and classification of digital assets; and matters relating to the issuance and distribution of tokenized securities and investment contract securities. She also advises on applications for regulatory sandbox programs (Innovative Financial Services) in the digital finance sector, as well as broader legislative and policy developments governing digital assets and digital finance.
Ms. Han currently serves as Co-Head of the Virtual Asset Team of Lee & Ko’s Digital Assets Center.
주요처리사례
- [Digital Assets]
- Registration and reporting filings for virtual asset service providers
- Regulatory advice on new business initiatives for virtual asset service providers
- Policy and legislative advisory work relating to digital assets and related areas
- Advisory work on the establishment of digital asset trading platforms (DATs)
- AML frameworks, internal control systems, and ISMS/ISMS-P-related matters
- Representation in civil and criminal proceedings involving virtual asset service providers
- Digital asset issuance transactions
- Overseas stablecoin issuance projects
- Financial institutions’ entry into the digital asset business
- Unfair trading proceedings involving virtual assets (including matters before the Virtual Asset Investigation Review Committee)
- [Digital Finance]
- Advisory work for electronic financial transaction service providers entering the digital asset business
- Advisory work for credit card companies entering the digital asset business under the Specialized Credit Financial Business Act
- Issuance and distribution of tokenized securities through designation as an Innovative Financial Service Provider under the Special Act on Support for Financial Innovation
- Structuring of investment contract securities issuances and securities registration statement filings
학력
| 2023 | Graduate School of Law, Seoul National University – Ph.D. |
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| 2014 | Graduate School of Law, Seoul National University – LL.M. |
| 2010 | Judicial Research & Training Institute, Supreme Court of Korea |
| 2007 | College of Law, Seoul National University - LL.B. |
경력
| 2026-Present | Lee & Ko |
|---|---|
| 2011-2026 | Barun Law LLC. |
| 2025-Present | Member, Personal Information & Information Security Management System (ISMS-P) Certification Committee, Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) |
| 2024-Present | Director, Financial Law Committee, Korean Bar Association |
| 2024-Present | Member, Clearing & Settlement Advisory Committee, Korea Securities Depository |
| 2023 | Member, Task Force for Virtual Asset Supervision, Financial Supervisory Service |
| 2022 | Member, Capital Markets and Securities Status Determination Committee, Financial Services Commission |
| 2021-2022 | Member, Task Force for Capital Markets and Tokenized Securities, Financial Services Commission |
| 2020 | Member, Task Force on Follow-up Measures to the Specified Financial Transaction Information Act Amendment Relating to Virtual Assets, Korea Financial Intelligence Unit (KoFIU), Financial Services Commission |
| 2019-Present | Member, Special Committee on IT and Blockchain, Korean Bar Association |
| 2019-Present | Director, Korean Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law |
| 2018-Present | Director, Blockchain Law Society |
| 2018-2021 | Advisory Member, Korea Blockchain Association |
| 2017-Present | Legal Advisory Member, Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) |
| 2010 | Daewoo Securities Co., Ltd. |
언어
| Korean and English |
저서/활동/기타
- 가상자산 규제체계상 이용자 가상자산의 보호 방안에 관한 연구, 신탁연구, Vol. 7, No. 1, 신탁학회, 2025
- 가상자산 외부 보관과 이용자 보호에 관한 연구, 증권법연구, Vol. 26, No. 1, 한국증권법학회, 2025
- “가상자산 이용자 보호 등에 관한 법률”에서의 불공정거래행위에 대한 법적 고찰, 증권법연구, Vol. 24, No. 3, 한국증권법학회, 2023.12
- “디지털자산의 자본시장법상 규제에 관한 연구”, 서울대학교 법과대학 박사학위 논문, 2023. 8
- 탈중앙화자율조직의 자금조달과 ICO, 한국법제연구원, 2022
- 해외 비트코인 상장지수집합투자기구(ETF) 사례 및 국내 비트코인 상장지수집합투자기구(ETF) 도입을 위한 논의, 증권법연구, 한국증권법학회, 2022.4
- “디지털자산과 자본시장법상 규제- 증권성 판단기준을 중심으로”, BFL, 서울대학교 금융법 센터, 2022. 9
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