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Accounting Supervision

"Good internal communication among the teams within the firm. They provide comprehensive feedback with input from the various departments."

- Chambers & Partners Asia-Pacific

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Overview

BKL leverages its extensive expertise and experience in assisting accounting supervision matters and responding to sanctions imposed by accounting supervisory authorities. We deliver tailored solutions  and consistently achieve client specific results, earning high level of client satisfaction.

Comprehensive Services for Accounting Supervision

BKL effectively resolves all issues and disputes concerning accounting supervision process. These include advisory support for navigating the process during and after accounting supervision, substantive reviews of listing eligibility, prosecutorial investigations, criminal litigation, administrative litigation, and civil litigation.

BKL provides, analysis concerning accounting supervisory regulators, legal and accounting advices in preparing and amending financial statements, accounting fraud investigations, and digital forensics services during audits and re-audits.

Integrated Expertise and One-Stop Solutions

BKL’s team comprises of attorneys, CPAs, advisors, and expert consultants with prior experience at Financial Services Commission, the Financial Supervisory Service and accounting firms. This combination of expertise enables us to respond efficiently to accounting supervision-related cases.

Our services involve thorough analysis of key issues and development of client specific strategies. By providing cohesive and effective advisory supports to clients, BKL is well recognized for consistently delivering optimal outcomes that align with our clients’ objectives.

 

Key Services

Response to Accounting Supervision
Manage client’s response to examination of financial statements by regulatory authorities designed to ensure compliance with accounting standards
Respond to administrative action, including disciplinary sanction, taken by the Financial Services Commission or the Securities and Futures Commission following accounting supervision
Korea Exchange Listing Eligibility Review
Respond to preliminary examination by the Korea Exchange prior to its listing eligibility review process
Prosecutorial Investigation and Criminal Defense Litigation 
Respond to criminal charges, criminal notice and prosecutorial investigations arising from the results of accounting supervision
Provide legal advice on criminal defense litigation involving violations of the Act on External Audit of Stock Companies (AEASC), the Certified Public Accountant Act, the Criminal Act, etc.
Provide legal representation in criminal defense litigation
Provide digital forensics support in evidence analysis in investigations and litigation 
Administrative and Civil Litigation
Assist with injunction filings to suspend administrative sanction based on the results of accounting supervision
Provide legal representation in administrative lawsuits to challenge decisions made by the Securities and Futures Commission and/or the Financial Services Commission
Assist with injunction filings to suspend delisting by the Korea Exchange based on lack of an inappropriate audit opinion
Response to Audit Review
Provide legal advice to companies re-drafting or amending financial statements due to loss of an inappropriate audit opinion

Practice Areas

Representative Cases

Represented a resort company in accounting supervision and the results thereof
Advised many KOSDAQ-listed companies in relation to disclaimer of opinion and listing eligibility review process
Represented a Korean press company in relation to prosecutorial investigations and criminal and administrative litigation, as well as inquiries by the Korea Communications Commission, following accounting supervision results
Responding to Accounting Supervisions
Represented an audio/video equipment manufacturer in accounting
Represented a commodity broker in accounting supervision
Represented an aerospace parts manufacturer in accounting supervision and the results thereof
Represented an external auditor in accounting supervision of an electronic payment processing company and the results thereof
Represented a Korean press company in accounting supervision and the results thereof
Represented a resort company in accounting supervision and the results thereof
Represented a semiconductor developer in accounting supervision
Represented an external auditor in accounting supervision of a pharmaceutical manufacturer and the results thereof
Represented a chemical products manufacturer in accounting supervision
Represented a cosmetics company in accounting supervision and the results thereof
Korea Exchange Listing Eligibility Review
Advised many KOSDAQ-listed companies in relation to disclaimer of opinion and listing eligibility review process
Advised many KOSPI-listed companies on listing eligibility review process and listing maintenance in relation to disclaimer of opinion
Advised a KOSPI-listed company on exemption from listing eligibility review
Advised many KOSDAQ-listed companies on market disclosure violations
Prosecutorial Investigation & Criminal, Administrative and Civil Litigation
Represented a Korean press company in relation to prosecutorial investigations and criminal and administrative litigation, as well as inquiries by the Korea Communications Commission, following accounting supervision results
Represented an external auditor of a pharmaceutical manufacturer in prosecutorial investigations and criminal litigation following accounting supervision results
Represented a cosmetics company in prosecutorial investigations and administrative litigation following accounting supervision results
Represented an aerospace parts manufacturer in prosecutorial investigations
Represented a pharmaceutical manufacturer in relation to qualified audit opinion and delisting
Represented a game software developer in relation to delisting
Represented an underwriter for IPO of a foreign company in Korea in civil litigation against its external auditor
Represented a shipbuilding company in civil litigation against its external auditor
Accounting Advice and Responding to Audits
Advised a tobacco company on internal accounting investigations related to internal audits
Advised numerous companies on internal accounting investigations in relation to inappropriate audit opinion
Advised an oil company on the scope of financial consolidation
Advised a software developer on digital forensics in relation to inappropriate audit opinion
Advised an accounting firm on internal investigations related to PCAOB investigations

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