Dae-Ryun and YK strengthen tax response... Sejong Strengthens Medical Competitiveness [Law & Biz Briefing]

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Daeryun strengthens ability to respond to tax litigation

Daeryun Law Firm is strengthening its ability to respond to tax litigation, including preemptive response to tax evasion risks, led by its corporate legal and tax administration groups. Under the direction of each group leader, teams of 3 to 20 people were formed, including not only tax attorneys but also accountants, tax accountants, and digital forensics experts. Attorney Won-il Won (28th class of the Judicial Research and Training Institute, right in the photo), who leads the corporate legal group, is a former judge and served as the head of the legal office at the legal office of POSCO Holdings and its subsidiary POSCO Future M, where he handled various corporate dispute cases. Attorney Kwak Nae-won (25th class), head of the Tax Administration Group, specialized in tax and administrative litigation while working at the Seoul Administrative Court in 2004, and is registered with the Korean Bar Association as a lawyer specializing in administration and inheritance.

YK recruits lawyer Han Man-soo, a ‘tax law expert’

Law Firm YK hired Attorney Mansoo Han (13th class, photo) as its representative attorney. Attorney Han is a tax law expert who has provided tax advice to large law firms such as Kim & Chang and Yulchon for over 20 years. Since 1998, he has participated in government tax system reform by serving as an advisor to the Tax Office of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, a member of the Tax Development Deliberation Committee of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, a non-permanent judge of the Tax Tribunal, and a member of the Tax Development Deliberation Committee of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance. It also completed major sales, such as Lehman Brothers' sale of Woori Bank's non-performing loans and Lone Star's sale of Gangnam Finance Center. With the addition of one lawyer, the number of lawyers at YK exceeds 300.

Sejong, the first of the top five law firms to acquire ISO17100 certification

Shin & Kim Law Firm acquired the ‘International ISO17100 Translation Service Management System Certification’ from Lloyd’s Register (LRQA), a British International Organization for Standardization (ISO) review agency. It is the first among the top five law firms in Korea. ISO17100 is an international standard certification in the field of translation services established by ISO in 2015 and guarantees that the acquiring company is providing excellent quality translation services.

Sejong, MOU with medical company Kimedi

Shin & Kim Law Firm signed a business agreement (MOU) with Kimedi, a medical platform company with approximately 47,000 medical personnel as customers. The purpose is to check in advance legal issues that customers in the medical and pharmaceutical fields, such as taxation, inheritance/gift, and personnel management, may face, and to cooperate closely in sharing the latest trends in related industries and know-how to respond to regulations. The Sejong Healthcare professional team has increased its competitiveness in the medical field by recruiting attorney Seongtae Kim (32nd class) from Kim & Chang, advisor Youngsik Byun, a pharmaceutical pricing expert, Byungjun Bae from the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Jinhee Lee (35th class), a former pharmacist and former judge, and Hyeyoung Park, former chief prosecutor of the food and drug crime investigation department at the Seoul Western District Prosecutors' Office (34th class).
 

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