BKL’s Criminal Defense Group consists of top-tier professionals with extensive practical experience and the best know-how for responding to investigations in relation to corporate and white-collar criminal defense. BKL’s professionals have demonstrated their abilities and achievements by delivering optimal results in responding to investigations involving large corporations, major financial crime, and significant cases attracting public attention. Professionals well-versed in corporate and white-collar crime analyze cases from an in-depth and from multifaceted perspective, and collaborate organically as a unified team with specialists such as those in accounting, taxation, and fair trade, thereby providing optimal solutions for responding to investigations.

A premier team of professionals with extensive experiences and sharp insights

BKL’s Criminal Defense Group comprises experienced attorneys who have served previously as Prosecutor General, Chief Prosecutor, Deputy Chief Prosecutor, Senior Prosecutor, chief of a local police agency, and police superintendent, as well as highly recognized attorneys with expertise who have accumulated extensive investigation experience from working at departments specialized in special investigations, finance, fair trade, taxation, intellectual property, labor, and digital investigations. The Group also includes expert advisors from various fields with profound knowledge related to corporate criminal matters, enabling BKL to provide differentiated legal services based on unparalleled expertise and insight in relation to corporate and white-collar crime.

Presenting optimal responsive measures through multifaceted analysis and organic collaboration

In recent corporate investigation cases, it is common to observe a wide range of issues raised during an investigative process regarding various aspects of management activities. Additionally, there is a clear trend that cases reported or referred by relevant agencies, such as the National Tax Service, the Fair Trade Commission, and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, expand comprehensively as the prosecutor’s investigations proceed. For corporate criminal or large-scale financial cases, it is essential to examine criminal risks from  a multifaceted perspective and establish comprehensive responsive measures through close collaboration with experts from various relevant fields, such as accounting, taxation, and fair trade, from the early stages of the investigation, in order to handle such cases in a systematical manner. BKL operates multiple permanent task forces, including the Fair Trade, Taxation and Criminal Task Force, Securities Crime Task Force, Digital Finance Task Force, Major Disaster Task Force, and Search and Seizure Response Team, ensuring an organic collaborative framework.  Professionals coming from relevant agencies, such as the National Tax Service, the Fair Trade Commission, and the Financial Supervisory Service, and other professionals including accountants, tax agents, and patent attorneys, form a unified team to present the most effective responsive measures from the initial stages of a case.