Government Relations

“The team has broad experience looking at things from different angles.”

- The Asia Pacific Legal 500

Overview Key Services Practices Representative Cases Key Contacts Related Content

Overview

We provide innovative and practical solutions to the clients’ most complex regulatory issues in collaboration with attorneys specializing in finance, energy & infrastructure, healthcare & life science, antitrust & competition, environment, and construction as well as professionals with broad experience in the governments, media organizations and other corporations.

We help clients participate in forming their regulatory environment when they face unreasonable, excessive or impractical restrictions from legislative measures. We provide strategic advice to prevent the adoption of or enable modifications to such new legislative measures, or help clients shape existing ones. To that end, we engage in a wide variety of client advocacy from persuading the government officials and key stakeholders to adopt alternative regulatory measures during legislation process to seeking authoritative interpretations and filing civil petitions.

In addition, our professionals with broad government experience successfully assist clients in obtaining licenses, permits and patents.

Key Services

Advice on Political and Regulatory Trends

Analyzing the legislative and regulatory trends of the National Assembly and the governments and assess the impact on relevant industries and businesses

Monitoring political and regulatory trends in major areas, including finance, construction and antitrust & competition

GR Support for Regulatory Affairs and Licensing

Providing strategic solutions to regulatory issues from a legal and policy perspective

Providing assistance in obtaining license, permits and patents

Practice Areas

Representative Cases

Obtained authoritative interpretation on the thresholds for the use of fuel other than clean fuel at power generation facilities located in an area designated for the use of clean fuel under the Enforcement Decree of the Clean Air Conservation Act

Advising on employee succession and labor union issues arising in connection with mergers and acquisitions

Provided research and analysis of regulatory trends relating to central administrative agencies such as the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and other related agencies

GR Support for Regulatory Affairs

Provided strategic advice with respect to government policies relating to telecommunications charges and the Electric Utility Act

Provided strategic advice with respect to the amendment to the Enforcement Decree of the Local Tax Act to impose the same local taxes on long-term rental cars as on the privately-owned cars

Provided strategic advice with respect to amendments to the enforcement decree for gradual adoption of a new certification standard (i.e., WLTP) for diesel-powered cars

Provided strategic advice with respect to the amendment to the Fair Transactions in Franchise Business Act including information disclosure statement and regulation of business hours

GR Support for Licensing

Advised on patent acquisition by a duty-free shop

Advised on a permit acquisition for exclusive use of mountainous areas in connection with a construction permit for a country club

Advised on an internet bank license for Kakao Corp, the operator of Korea’s top mobile messenger

Provided a comprehensive advice with respect to legislation amendments and authoritative interpretations in connection with KakaoBank’s corporate governance restructuring

Compliance and Crisis Management

Advising on employee succession and labor union issues arising in connection with mergers and acquisitions

Advising on post-merger integrations

Advising on review of internal regulations

Advising on preliminary inspections for compliance with labor related regulations

Advising on responses to supervision of labor under the Occupational Safety and Health Act

Research and Analysis of GR Information

Provided research and analysis of regulatory trends relating to the Fair Trade Commission and other related government departments