After serving as a judge for 8 years, Mr. Byung-Il Im joined Yeollin Law Office in 1998 and has been working as a partner at Shin & Kim since 2001.

Mr. Im’s main areas of practice include administrative and civil litigation. He has successfully litigated many fair trade cases. Key examples of cases handled by Mr. Im include unfair support by Samsung SDS case, unfair support by Samsung Group affiliates case, unfair support by KT to its subsidiaries case, unfair collaborative acts by KT in relation to local calls case, unfair collaborative acts by rebar manufacturers case, Microsoft’s tying practice case, civil litigation related to unfair transaction refusal between Hyundai Oilbank and Incheon Oil, and civil litigation related to unfair transaction refusal by Mercedes-Benz Korea.

• Represented client in a case seeking cancellation of disposition by the Fair Trade Commission on unfair support by domestic conglomerates
• Represented client in a case seeking cancellation of disposition by the Fair Trade Commission on unfair support by Samsung Group affiliates
• Represented client in a case seeking cancellation of disposition by the Fair Trade Commission on unfair collaborative acts related to local telephone services by a domestic telecommunications company
• Represented client in a case seeking cancellation of disposition by the Fair Trade Commission on unfair collaborative acts by rebar manufacturers
• Represented client in a case on stay of execution related to tying practices by global companies
• Represented client in a civil litigation on the settlement of accounts related to the Libya Great Manmade River Project
• Represented client in a civil litigation related to the unfair transaction refusal between domestic oil companies
• Represented client in a civil litigation related to refusal of transactions by global automobile companies
• Represented client in a case seeking cancellation of disposition by the Fair Trade Commission against global mobile communication technology and semiconductor companies
• Represented an LCD company in a case seeking indemnification of the settlement of penalty surcharges