Partner
Young Cheol CHI
Corporate
Expertise
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Young Cheol Chi is a partner at Lee & Ko and has extensive experience in the areas of Corporate, White Collar Crime, Litigation, Customs, Finance, M&A, IT and IP. Prior to joining Lee & Ko in 2009, he served as a judge at various courts in Korea for about twenty years. He was also a research judge of the Constitutional Court and a professor at the Judicial Research and Training Institute. During his tenure as a judge, he accumulated extensive experience in a wide range of civil, criminal, white collar crimes and constitution-related litigations.
Representative Cases
- [Civil cases]
- Banking - RG dispute, Flaw on Taxation over Korean shipping magnate's HK account, KIKO Derivatives litigation
- M&A - penalty for breach of DSME M&A contract, CJ E&M Media M&A
- IT - validation service based on CAS agreement, Breach of BS Set-up Box development contract
- IP - Samsung & Apple SEP dispute, Lacoste's trademark infringement, generic medicine's infringement of Novatis' patent, national-wide television broadcaster's must-carry dispute
- Project Finance - CityCore Bridge Loan dispute, Galleria Foret Project Finance
- Foreign Investment - NinaRicci joint-venture agreement, Alibaba Sales Promotion Services Agreement
- [Criminal cases]
- Korean Securities Regulation - ELW system trader case, Analyst case, Credit Swiss Euro Bond case
- Freight forwarder's involvement in fraud export declaration
- Foreign exchange transaction violations and other customs related violations
- Dereliction of duty with leveraged buyout
- Money laundering by a foreign SPC
- Government official's bribery
- [Constitutional cases]
- Integration of Mobile Phone ID Number Integration Case
Education
| 2009 | Korea University - LL.M |
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| 1995 | French l’Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature, Paris |
| 1988 | Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea |
| 1986 | Seoul National University - LL.B |
Work Experience
| 2009-Present | Lee & Ko |
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| 2008-2009 | Senior Judge, Seoul Central District Court |
| 2005-2008 | Professor, Judicial Research and Training Institute, Supreme Court of Korea |
| 2003-2005 | Senior Judge, Incheon District Court |
| 2000-2003 | Constitution Research Judge, Constitutional Court of Korea |
Languages
| Korean and English |
