Mr. Ho-Chul Shin is currently a partner at Shin & Kim, and his practice focuses on corporate, financial, and accounting fraud investigations and advisory services.

Until his retirement from the Goyang Branch of the Uijeongbu District Prosecutors’ Office as Deputy Prosecutor General in August 2019, Mr. Shin served as Chief of the Special Investigation Division at the Incheon, Busan, and Gwangju District Prosecutors’ Offices, Head of the Human Rights Support Division at the Ministry of Justice, and as Chief of the Investigation Division II at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office. He was also seconded as Director General of the Insolvency Investigation Division of the Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation and as Investigation Director of the Capital Market Investigation Unit of the Financial Services Commission.

Based on his ability to understand financial statements and accounting books as a certified public accountant in charge of auditing prior to his service as a prosecutor, experience as a prosecutor of the Financial Investigation Division and Chief of the Special Investigation Division, and experience during his secondment in the investigation of financial crimes such as illegal loans of insolvent savings banks, market price manipulation cases, and the use of undisclosed material information, Mr. Shin has used his extensive experience and knowledge in defending individual and corporate cases of embezzlement, breach of trust, bribery, and financial corruption.

Criminal Cases involving Embezzlement and Breach of Trust related to Corporate Management

• Represented client in a case involving embezzlement and breach of trust by executives of a conglomerate affiliate (dismissed without charges)
• Represented client in a case involving violation of the Motor Vehicle Management Act by a foreign global automobile manufacturer (employee deferred prosecution)
• Represented client in a case involving bribery of an executive of a conglomerate affiliate (dismissed without charges)
• Represented client in a case against a major public company for violation of its obligation to report payments to third-parties under the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act (dismissed without charges)
• Represented client in a case involving violation of the Act on the Improvement of Urban Areas in a large-scale redevelopment project by a major construction company (dismissed without charges)

Securities and Financial Crimes such as Market Price Manipulation, Use of Undisclosed Information, etc.

• Represented client in a case involving violation of the Capital Markets Act and fraud in the sale of private equity funds by executives of a securities company (dismissed without charges
• Represented client in a case involving the use of undisclosed material information by the management of a pharmaceutical company (dismissed without charges)
• Represented client in a case involving breach of trust in connection with a securities company’s deposit securitization transaction (dismissed without charges)
• Represented client in a case involving market price manipulation and fraudulent transactions involving large amounts of investments of general investors (obtained acquittal for unjust enrichment claim of KRW 4.6 billion)