Wan Shik Lee is a partner and head of the Insolvency & Restructuring Practice Group. He is a prominent expert in the areas of civil litigation, white collar crime and corporate insolvency. While serving as a judge for twelve years, he has handled many prominent civil and criminal trials. In particular, during his tenure as a judge with the Bankruptcy Division of the Seoul Central District Court, he handled a vast number of insolvency proceedings.

After joining Lee & Ko in 2002 Mr. Lee has been in charge of major cases in the field of the insolvency and restructuring. Cases represented by him include: lawsuits about shareholders' derivatives and numerous other civil and criminal cases; corporate reorganization and rehabilitation procedures sale of companies in bankruptcy or reorganization; advice on acquisition of companies under reorganization; advice on measures for Korean financial institutions in respect of the Lehman Brothers crisis; advice on workout procedures of Korean construction companies.