Lee & Ko’s Criminal Practice Team comprises of 11 former prosecutors and boasts prominent members such as Kyung Sik Hong, former Chief Public Prosecutor of the Seoul High Prosecutors’ Office, Young Sunwoo, former Chief Public Prosecutor of the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors’ Office, and Cheol June Park, former 1st Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office. Based on the wealth of experience derived from the prior careers of its members, Lee & Ko’s Criminal Practice Team provides quick responses to clients with the most appropriate advice for each criminal issue that clients encounter while operating businesses in Korea. With integrity and experience, Lee & Ko’s Criminal Practice Team is certainly one of the most sophisticated criminal law teams in Korea.
Lee & Ko handles cases involving corporate crimes, finance-related crimes, trade secret misappropriation, intellectual property-related crimes, medical-related crimes, private information-related crimes, and many others. Recently, Lee & Ko’s Criminal Practice Team handled or is handling trade secret infringement cases in connection with manufacturing technologies for primary raw material used in the solar photovoltaic industry, semiconductor testing equipments, and electrical steel, and cases related to negligent maintenance of private information by large corporations. Through cooperation between Criminal Practice Team and other teams, Lee & Ko provides specialized and comprehensive legal services and representations in criminal proceedings as well as related civil proceedings, such as petitions for provisional injunction against trade secret infringement.