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The lawyers in our Korea team have the practical experience, technical skills, and commercial know-how needed to help our clients realize their objectives in Korea. Located throughout the Americas, Asia and Europe, we have a devoted team of lawyers with a special interest in Korea, fluency in Korean, on-the-ground experience in the relevant jurisdictions, and firsthand experience working with companies based and/or operating in Korea. This team has developed deep and long-standing relationships with many of the largest businesses, organizations, and government agencies in Korea across a wide variety of industries, as well as well-formed relationships with the leading Korean law firms with whom they regularly collaborate to ensure strong client service.

We represent Korean companies and financial institutions, as well as Korean affiliates of US and other non-Korean companies. Among our Korea-based clients are financial institutions and multinational conglomerates involved in trading, energy, mining, information technology, transportation and other infrastructure, life sciences, and real estate.

Our work with Korean companies includes the following areas:

Antitrust & Competition, Including Cartel Investigations. Korean clients turn to Mayer Brown’s Antitrust practice, which is recognized as a leading antitrust practice by Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and Global Competition Review. Our lawyers fully understand today's complex competition issues and regulatory authorities around the world, as well as the increasingly complex relationships among corporations in a global economy.

Litigation & Dispute Resolution. We conduct litigation and international arbitration proceedings throughout the world to protect the global interests of our clients. In the United Kingdom, Mayer Brown represents a number of Korea’s leading engineering and construction companies with respect to their global construction disputes.

Real Estate, Infrastructure and Energy. Mayer Brown helps Korea-based clients achieve their strategic growth objectives by using our extensive and sophisticated Real Estate and Infrastructure practices, which have advised on transactions in the energy, natural resources, mining, transportation, and telecommunications sectors involving billions of US dollars.

Intellectual Property. Leading Korean corporations rely on Mayer Brown to fully protect and aggressively enforce their intellectual property assets. We represent clients as plaintiffs and defendants in claims involving patent, trademark and copyright infringement, unfair competition, false advertising, trade secret misappropriation, and IP-related antitrust violations.

Litigation & Dispute Resolution. We conduct litigation and international arbitration proceedings throughout the world to protect the global interests of our clients. We have successfully represented Korea-based clients in matters relating to consumer class actions, trade secrets, tort claims, construction claims, employment claims and collection matters.

Corporate and M&A. Korea-based clients have looked to us for counsel on a variety of corporate matters in a variety of countries, including corporate acquisitions, establishment of operations outside Korea, negotiation of contracts, and drafting arbitration provisions in consumer contracts to mitigate the risk of consumer class actions.

Banking & Finance. Our premier global finance practice covers all aspects of lending, including asset-backed lending, acquisition finance, securitization, and project finance – and we have represented Korean institutions in global project finance, receivables lending, and other financial matters, as well as US regulatory matters.