Mr. Derek Dongryul Lee is a partner at Shin & Kim, with extensive experience in the corporate sector, including fair transactions, M&A, real estate, Digital Technology, etc.

Mr. Lee has been particularly dedicated in various issues in the overall anti-trust laws and overall laws and regulations related to fair transactions. With a strength in presenting compelling arguments, he attended and presented in more than fifty cases of deliberation, mediation hearings of the Fair Trade Commission and the Korea Fair Trade Mediation Agency, which are the frontmost line in anti-trust practice.

Further, with an excellent grasp of the English language, his work extended to ICC and other multiple international commercial arbitration cases. He worked in one of U.S.’s top tier corporate litigation lawfirm, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LA branch as an International Associate, and participated in various cases including the Samsung-Apple case, etc. thus acquired even further experience in the overall U.S. litigation practice, including depositions, e-discovery, trials, etc. Based on this experience, he served as the director of international committee 1 at the Korean Bar Association, and the Seoul Bar Association.

As a result of his works, Mr. Lee was nominated multiple times as a leading lawyer in renowned legal journals and in-house attorney surveys, in various sectors, including international trade, international arbitration, corporate law, etc.

• Represented a virtual asset exchange and won the case of injunction to suspend the effect of the decision to terminate transaction support for virtual assets
• Represented and won case for Company A, a builder and seller of hotels, by proving the establishment of sectional ownership for buildings used as a whole.
• Represented construction company in bid rigging case and obtained full exemption from penalty surcharge
• Advised large platform company on virtual asset business
• Advised local government on the enactment of special laws related to the establishment of digital asset exchange
• Advised domestic mobile service provider on secondary transactions through cryptocurrency and NFT transactions within metaverse
• Advised on multiple merger filings