Jinhoon Gim

Overview

Jinhoon Gim mainly advises on responding to investigations by the Korea Fair Trade Commission and handling any related lawsuit, making a business combination report and performing all related tasks, and dealing with pharmaceutical and healthcare-related legal affairs. Mr. Gim has experience in advising clients on all aspects of their responses to investigations and administrative lawsuits in relation to, among others, any allegation of their having committed a collusive act, abused their market-dominating position or used their superior bargaining power over other contracting parties, as well as in handling a number of business combination cases.

The clients that Mr. Gim successfully defended are as follows, to name a few: a steelmaker sued for its alleged rebar price-rigging collusion with other steelmakers; a construction company sued for its alleged bid-rigging collusion with other construction companies; a global communications chipset manufacturer sued for its alleged abused of its market-dominating position; and an automobile part manufacturer sued for its alleged act of compelling agents to buy its products. He has also advised on numerous M&A deals, including a horizontal one between pay TV service providers and a vertical one between a steelmaker and a wire rod manufacturer. In addition, his practice encompasses not only clients in need of advisory services for responding to investigations into their alleged violations of the subcontracting law, agency law, franchise business law, labelling and advertising law or any other applicable law, but also clients in need of representation services because of, e.g., a sanction imposed for their alleged illegitimate act against other contracting parties and a damage claim filed for their alleged violation of the competition law.

Based on the above experience and expertise, Mr. Gim has lectured on related issues and implications in a number of organizations, including companies, the Korea Fair Competition Federation, and Korea Health Industry Development Institute.

Related Practices

Representative Experience

2009-Present Bae, Kim & Lee LLC

Representative Matters

Represented POSCO E&C in a damages suit from bid collusion on the installation of total phosphorus treatment facilities (including sewage treatment plant in the western part of Daegu)

Represented Hyundai Mobis in an administrative suit filed by Hyundai Mobis against the Fair Trade Commission for the cancellation of a corrective order and an order to pay administrative fine issued (for a charge of the head office of Hyundai Mobis coercing agencies to purchase as part of a push strategy) by the Fair Trade Commission

Represented LG Uplus in a business combination report case in relation to LG Uplus's acquisition of shares in CJ Hello

Represented KT in a case involving its alleged misleading labelling and advertising on its mobile communication services

Represented Korea Iron & Steel in a case where the Fair Trade Commission presented an examination report determining corrective orders, administrative fines, and the criminal prosecution of individuals and companies on the grounds of steel bar companies' collusion on steel bars for civilian demands

Represented POSCO E&C in a damages suit from bid collusion on the installation of total phosphorus treatment facilities (including sewage treatment plant in the western part of Daegu)

Represented Hyundai Mobis in an administrative suit filed by Hyundai Mobis against the Fair Trade Commission for the cancellation of a corrective order and an order to pay administrative fine issued (for a charge of the head office of Hyundai Mobis coercing agencies to purchase as part of a push strategy) by the Fair Trade Commission

Represented LG Uplus in a business combination report case in relation to LG Uplus's acquisition of shares in CJ Hello

Represented KT in a case involving its alleged misleading labelling and advertising on its mobile communication services

Represented Korea Iron & Steel in a case where the Fair Trade Commission presented an examination report determining corrective orders, administrative fines, and the criminal prosecution of individuals and companies on the grounds of steel bar companies' collusion on steel bars for civilian demands

Represented construction company Kook-Won in a case where it reported KORAMCO REITS & TRUST to the Fair Trade Commission demanding the nullification of unfair contractual terms

Represented LG Electronics with respect to the filing of a business combination report for its acquisition of shares in Robostar Co., Ltd.

Represented daily newspaper company Edaily in the phase of examiners' examination with respect to the sales by employees of the newspaper company

Advised Hyundai Steel Company in its business combination involving its acquisition of Dongbu Special Steel

Represented a client in an administrative suit and a civil damage suit concerning its alleged wrongful collusive activities in relation to HDPE and PP products

Represented oil refiners in a civil damage suit concerning their alleged wrongful collusive activities in relation to retail light-oil products (gasoline, kerosene, and diesel)

Represented a client in a case involving its alleged wrongful collusive activities in relation to LDPE and LLDPE products

Represented elevator companies in a case involving their alleged wrongful collusive activities in relation to their market division and price increase

Represented a client in a case involving its alleged wrongful collusive activities in relation to the price of copying paper

Represented a client in a civil damage suit concerning an international CRT cartel

Represented artificial grass companies in an administrative case (concerning sanctions imposed by the Public Procurement Service for their alleged wrongful collusive activities in the public tender)

Represented Intel in its litigation against the KFTC seeking cancellation of the commission's measure taken for the client's alleged abuse of its market-dominating position

Represented a Korean clothing company in a civil damage suit concerning its alleged violation of the subcontracting law

Education

2017 University of Minnesota Law School (LL.M.)

2009 Judicial Research and Training Institute, Supreme Court of Korea

2007 Yonsei University (LL.B.)

Selected Activities

Publications

Tunneling Regulations under the MRFTA – Focusing on Provisions on Prohibition of Private Profit-Taking Behaviors, BFL No. 78, pp. 24-40 (Co-author, Seoul National University Center for Financial Law, 2016)

Theory & Practice of the Act on Fair Transactions in Large Retail Business (Co-author, Pakyoungsa, 2012)

Activity

Speaker, Corporate Response to Changes in Fair Trade Regulations, WEBINAR - Presentation of Issues and their Implications involving Key Fair Trade Cases (Bae, Kim & Lee LLC, 2020)

Lecture on Issues involving Agency Law in Pharmaceutical Industry (Korea Health Industry Development Institute, 2020)

Lecture on Comprehensive Understanding of Agency Law (Korea Fair Competition Federation, 2020)

Qualifications

2009 Korea