Shin & Kim provides the following services in connection with cartel investigations:

• Investigating and assessing client activities and determining legal compliance and liability
• Advising clients with requests and orders issued by the KFTC for information and on-site investigations during cartel investigations
• Advising and representing clients wishing to apply for cartel leniency
• Appearing before the KFTC and appealing the examiner’s report 
• Advising on economic evidence and analysis to support the client
• Representing and defending clients in administrative lawsuits, prosecutorial investigations, and civil and criminal proceedings resulting from cartel violations.

Shin & Kim has represented clients in many of Korea’s most prominent cartel investigations such as the following:

• Collusive bidding by domestic construction companies in their bid for the construction of the Wonju–Gangneung railroad roadbed
• Price fixing of corrugated cardboard by corrugated cardboard manufacturers
• Collusive bidding for LNG storage tank construction project by KOGAS
• Collusion by foreign banks in foreign exchange swap transactions
• Collusive bidding for a natural gas pipeline construction contract from KOGAS
• CD interest rate fixing scheme by major commercial banks
• Price fixing by duty-free shops
• Price fixing by feed manufacturing and sales companies
• Collusive bidding for power lines to be purchased by KEPCO and KHNP
• Price fixing by automobile bearing manufacturing and sales companies
• Collusive bidding by domestic construction companies for the Kyungin Canal construction project
• Collusive bidding by domestic construction companies for the Incheon, Daegu, and Busan subway construction project
• Collusive bidding by domestic construction companies for the Honam High Speed Railway construction project
• Price fixing by domestic and foreign airlines
• Price fixing by automobile parts manufacturers
• Price fixing by large commercial cargo vehicle manufacturers
• Price fixing by cold rolling, zinc, and color steel plate manufacturers
• Price fixing by agricultural machinery manufacturing and sales companies
• Price fixing by ramen noodle manufacturing and sales companies
• Price fixing by ramen noodle manufacturing and sales companies Collusive bidding by domestic builders for the Four-Rivers Refurbishment Project