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Jin-Ho Jeong

Jin-Ho Jeong

Senior Partner
Introduction

Mr. Jin-Ho Jeong is a senior partner at Shin & Kim.

Mr. Jeong served as a chief judge in various urban and regional courts from around 1994 to 2010, and handled various civil and criminal cases related to securities & finance, corporations, real estate, provisional disposition cases such as injunctions, as well as cases involving warrants, family issues, and enforcement affairs.

After joining Shin & Kim in 2010, he has been responsible for significant civil and criminal cases for major companies, and has particularly excelled in various civil cases involving securities & finance, hostile M&A, real estate, constructions, and provisional disposition cases, as well as corporate crimes (e.g., white collar crimes, violation of the Capital Markets Act), family affairs (e.g., property division and inheritance) and trade secrets (e.g., infringement of trade secrets, disclosures).

Legal500, a renowned global legal directory, recognized Mr. Jeong as a Recommended Lawyer in the Dispute Resolution sector.

Professional Career
  • 2010-PresentShin & Kim LLC
  • 2009-2010Chief Judge, Seoul Dongbu District Court
  • 2006-2009Chief Judge, Euijungbu District Court
  • 2005-2006Judge, Seoul Central District Court (researching judge)
  • 2003-2005Judge, Seoul High Court
  • 2001-2003Judge, Seoul District Court, Nambu Branch
  • 1998-2001Judge, Suwon District Court, Yeoju Branch
  • 1996-1998Judge, Busan District Court
  • 1994-1996Judge, Busan District Court, Ulsan Branch
  • 1991-1994Judge Advocate, Republic of Korea Army
  • 1991Judicial Research & Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea
Key Experience
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgment of execution for handover of a large golf course from the court of first instance within six months, despite the other party’s defense of needing an appraisal, and subsequently secured a final judgement that led to the prompt execution of the handover
  • Represented clients in obtaining recognition of the effectiveness of a franchise agreement’ termination in a case where a preliminary injunction was filed to maintain the agreement’s effectiveness, and the validity of the franchise agreement was contested
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgment that a common area was not insufficient in a case where the purchaser of a commercial building sought the return of the purchase price due to a lack of the common area
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgement of remand from the Supreme Court in a case seeking revocation of a disposition of business suspension on the ground of failure to meet the construction business registration standards
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgment that there was no defect in a management and disposal change plan in a case where the members of a redevelopment association sought to cancel the management and disposal change plan against the district office
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgment acknowledging the liability for damages to the medical practitioner who employed a nurse with tuberculosis in the nursery
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgment acknowledging a liability limitation ratio of 50% or less in a case seeking damages suffered by a securities company due to the sale of the large volume of misallocated employee shares by its employee
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgment acknowledging that no duty of due diligence was breached in a case where damages were claimed due to a breach of duty of due diligence in the process of advising on the sale of real estate
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgment that the restriction on qualifications to participate in bidding was illegal in an administrative litigation seeking revocation of restriction on qualifications to participate in bidding which was imposed due to exceeding penalty points
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgment of reduction in payment in a case where the payment was requested in accordance with the minimum usage guarantee provisions under the steam sales business partnership agreement
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgment acknowledging stocks worth trillions of won as unique property in a divorce case involving the owner of a large corporation whose estate was comprised mostly of stock
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgment that there was a breach of a representations and warranties covenant in a damages claim case arising out of a breach of a representations and warranties covenant under a M&A agreement
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgment to indemnify performance gains in a case of damages caused by unfair contract termination
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgment to cancel the information disclosure decision on trade secrets in connection with the information disclosure disposition on the working environment measurement results containing key trade secrets of large corporations
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgment denying the employee nature of clothing store sellers at a department store
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgment that there was no complicity for market price manipulation, that there were zero unjust gains and additional surcharges amounting to KRW 35 billion through systematic stock trading analysis
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgment to cancel the Fair Trade Commission’s disposition in an unfair support case in which tolls were questioned
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgment that there were zero unjust gains as well as zero additional surcharges by delaying the closing period of market price manipulation through systematic stock trading analysis
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgment to dismiss an application for injunction to prohibit the payment of guarantees on the grounds of abuse of rights in relation to the obligation to pay guarantees due to independent bank guarantees
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgment that a securities company that sold corporate commercial paper of a construction company immediately before bankruptcy had no obligation to compensate investors
  • Represented clients in obtaining a judgment to accept an application for injunction to prohibit the payment of a letter of credit worth USD 150 million within one week after the submission thereof
Education
  • 1987-1989Seoul National University Graduate School of Law (LL.M. in Commercial Law Studies, 1989)
  • 1983-1987Seoul National University College of Law (LL.B., 1987)
Qualifications
  • 1991Admitted to bar, Korea
Languages

Korean, English, Japanese

Professional Activities
  • "Study of the Use of Overseas Investment Insurance for the Resolution of Expropriation Disputes: Focusing on OPIC.", an LL.M. thesis
  • "Keun-Mortgage Rights and Registration thereof under the Proposed Amendment to the Civil Code: in Comparison with the Keun-Mortgage System in Japan.", A judicial research paper
  • "Suspension, Restriction and Cancellation of Execution.", Trial Practice Research (2), Civil Execution Litigation, Korea Judicial Administration Society, 2008
  • "Liability for Compensation for Damages due to Unreasonable Provisional Execution." , Trial Practice Research (2), Civil Execution Litigation, Korea Judicial Administration Society, 2008
  • Court Practice Guidebook, Real Estate Execution
  • Writ or Warrant Guidebook
  • "Several Practical Issues Related to Arrest Warrants"
Professional Accolades

  • "Leading Lawyer" for Litigation, Legal Times, 2022
  • "Recommended Lawyer” for Dispute Resolution, Legal500, 2018-2020

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