Address:
23rd Floor, D-Tower (D2)
17 Jongno 3-gil, Jongno-gu
Seoul, 03155
South Korea

+8223164114


Key contacts:

Managing partner: Jong-Han Oh
Senior partner: Kyung Don Lee

Quick facts:

Number of lawyers: 650+
Number of partners: 300+
Languages: Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese, German, French, Vietnamese, Russian, Dutch


For several decades, Shin & Kim has provided legal and regulatory services in a wide range of practice areas, including finance, M&A, dispute resolution, tax, labor, intellectual property, and TMT. We provide solutions that address the core issues rather than those aimed at achieving short-term gains. We tailor our services for each client, respecting the client’s commercial objectives and corporate culture at all times.
With approximately 780 dedicated professionals, you would have access to professionals with the relevant expertise, and be given the comfort that Shin & Kim has the capacity and commitment to provide legal services in the most prompt and effective manner.
The breadth and diversity of experience offered by our professionals, many of whom have worked and studied abroad, have kept the firm in the forefront of changes occurring in the global financial market and international business community as well as in Korea.
Our clients include Fortune 500 companies, Korean conglomerates, prominent investors and numerous other international and domestic companies. We represent clients in a broad range of complex transactions and litigation with the goal to provide results-oriented legal services to achieve the commercial objectives of our clients. As a result, we are consistently recognized as a top-tier Korean law firm by international financial and legal publications in the areas of foreign investment, securities, M&A, anti-trust, international trade, dispute, and other various areas.

  • Asset finance
  • Banking
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • Capital markets: Derivatives
  • Capital markets: Equity
  • Competition
  • Covered bonds
  • Financial restructuring
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Investment funds
  • M&A, PPP/PFI
  • Private equity
  • Private equity funds,
  • Capital markets: High yield
  • CLO/CDO
  • Hedge funds
  • Islamic finance
  • Project bonds
  • Project development
  • Project finance
  • Real estate finance
  • Real estate funds
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Securitisation
  • Structured finance/securitisation
  • Trade finance