Key practice areas

Securities; corporate; litigation & arbitration; corporate restructuring; trusts

Introduction

Wan Shik is a partner and head of the insolvency & restructuring practice group at Lee & Ko. He is a prominent expert in the areas of civil litigation, white collar crime and corporate insolvency. While serving as a judge for 12 years, he has handled many prominent civil and criminal trials. In particular, during his tenure as a judge with the bankruptcy division of the Seoul Central District Court, he handled a vast number of insolvency proceedings.

Since joining Lee & Ko in 2002, Wan Shik has been in charge of major cases in the field of insolvency and restructuring. Cases represented by him include: lawsuits about shareholders’ derivatives and numerous other civil and criminal cases; corporate reorganization and rehabilitation procedures sale of companies in bankruptcy or reorganization; advice on acquisition of companies under reorganization; advice on measures for Korean financial institutions in respect of the Lehman Brothers crisis.

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