Buru Im

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概要

Buru Im advises mainly on the matters related to fair trade practices, investigations and lawsuits. 

Mr. Im has broad experience in using econometric analyses to evaluate how much loss or competition-lessening effect a company has caused by its collusive act or abuse of its market-dominating position. Particularly, he has been engaged in a number of collusion damage suits involving a wide range of industrial companies, including large construction companies, banking automation equipment providers, pharmaceutical companies, and electric wire manufacturers—where he estimates damages by employing an economic analysis approach. In addition, his rich experience in economic analysis encompasses other various fields: For example, he looked into an online large company's abuse of its dominant market position to evaluate the resulting competition-lessening effect, and calculated accounting fraud-caused damages. 

Mr. Im graduated from the Department of Economics of Seoul National University in 2002 and earned a master's degree in Economics at Seoul National University's graduate school in 2010. Then, since 2016, he has served as an economic analysis expert in the fair trade field.

経歴

2021-現在 Bae, Kim & Lee LLC
2016-2021 Researcher, Lee & Ko LLC
2005-2007 Bank clerk, Shinhan Bank

主な案件実績

Performed an economic analysis in a case involving bid-rigging for form-skin cables ordered by a telecommunications company
Performed an economic analysis in a case involving bid-rigging for the Honam High-Speed Railway construction project ordered by the Korea National Railway
Performed an economic analysis in a case involving the abuse of superior bargaining position and violations of the Act on Fair Transactions in Large Retail Business by a cosmetics distributor
Performed an economic analysis in a shareholder derivative action against a cement manufacturer
Handled a merger involving an OTT service provider
Civil lawsuits for damages for collusion
Performed an economic analysis in a case involving bid-rigging for form-skin cables ordered by a telecommunications company
Performed an economic analysis in a case involving bid-rigging for the Honam High-Speed Railway construction project ordered by the Korea National Railway
Performed an economic analysis to calculate damages due to bid-rigging for pretensioned spun high-strength concrete piles
Performed an economic analysis in a case involving bid-rigging for the construction of raising agricultural reservoir embankments
Performed an economic analysis in a case involving bid-rigging for the Hwayang-Jeokgeum road construction project commissioned by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport
Response to investigations and deliberations related to fair trade
Performed an economic analysis in a case involving the abuse of superior bargaining position and violations of the Act on Fair Transactions in Large Retail Business by a cosmetics distributor
Performed an economic analysis in a case involving collusion by steel manufacturers in a bid for steel bars procured by the government through the Public Procurement Service
Performed an economic analysis in a case involving an investigation into an accommodation platform operator's unfair trade practices
Performed an economic analysis in a case involving an investigation into a food distribution business operator's improper labor support
Litigation related to fair trade
Performed an economic analysis in a criminal case involving bid-rigging for military food supplies by a processed meat manufacturer
Performed an economic analysis in a shareholder derivative action against a cement manufacturer
Merger
Handled a merger involving a construction glass manufacturer
Handled a merger involving an OTT service provider
Regulation and legislation
Performed an economic effect analysis related to the legislation on import tariffs for supplementary materials for steel
Performed an economic effect analysis concerning the legislation regulating the payment of Diagou commission fees by duty-free shops
Performed an economic effect analysis of joining the Trade Agreement on Civil Aircraft (TCA)

学歴

2010 Seoul National University (M.A.)
2002 Seoul National University (B.A.)

主な活動

著述
An Introduction of the Method in Estimating Damage Amount from Multiple Accounting Fraud, Korean Journal of Law and Economics Vol. 16 No. 1, pp. 71-88 (Co-author, Korea Law & Economics Association, 2019)