KOREA
PRACTICE GROUP
KOREA PRACTICE GROUP
We offer vast professional experience, extensive cultural knowledge, key local contacts and fluency in Korean, English, Portuguese and Spanish.
TozziniFreire’s Korea Practice Group is the first and only one of its kind in Brazil and Latin America. We offer vast professional experience, extensive cultural knowledge, key local contacts and fluency in Korean, English, Portuguese and Spanish. In short, a combination unequalled by any other major law firm in Brazil. A significant number of our lawyers (including a Senior Managing Partner) are of Korean descent, educated, living and working in Korea, the United States, Brazil and other Latin American countries for many years. They have unsurpassed knowledge of the region and its people, with the expertise to provide the best legal services and guidance to Korean clients who have interests or projects in Brazil and other parts of Latin America.
Our Commitment to Clients
Our Korea Practice Group is backed by the commitment and dedication of our entire firm, which currently consists of over 400 lawyers and other outstanding professionals. We are fully committed and dedicated to providing the best guidance and legal services for your project in Brazil and Latin America. Our Korea Practice Group is backed by the commitment and dedication of our entire firm, which currently consists of over 400 lawyers and other outstanding professionals. We always ensure that our clients’ affairs are handled in the most efficient and cost-effective manner, no matter the type of project or country involved. We also have vast experience of working closely with other top law firms throughout Latin America, including Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Puerto Rico. Our long-standing relationships and our knowledge of the quality and reputation of other major law firms in Latin America are invaluable in helping our clients to select the right law firm for a project in a particular country.
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OUR EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE
Hyundai US$600 million investment to establish its first major auto plant in Latin America,located in the City of Piracicaba, S達o Paulo State KOREA DEVELOPMENT BANK Establishment of its Brazilian subsidiary as well as assistance in the financing of Brazilian subsidiaries of various other major Korean companies
KOREAN EMBASSY IN BRAZIL preparation and presentation to the Korean Government and companies of an overview of the easures adopted under the Greater Brazil Plan
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PARTNERS
Shin Jae Kim
São Paulo skim@tozzinifreire.com.br Tel.: (55 11) 5086-5276
Professional Experience A member of TozziniFreire’s Executive and Management Committees, Shin focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, and regulatory compliance matters. Well respected for her leading practice, Shin has over 20 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and other transactional work, and advises investors from various countries in their inbound and outbound investments. She also counsels clients on their relationships with government bodies and corporate investigations. Shin is the head of the Asia Practice Group, directly coordinating the Korea and China groups; she is also co-head of TozziniFreire’s Compliance & Investigation group.
Recognition She is consistently recommended as a leading lawyer in international legal publications such as Chambers Global, Chambers Latin America, Legal 500, Latin Lawyer 250 and PLC Which Lawyer?. In 2007, Shin was awarded the International Compliance Professional award from the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics. She is also recommended by Latin Lawyer Masters of M&A.
Education Studied at the Academy of American and International Law within the Center for American and International Law, USA, 1997. LL.M. in International and omparative Law from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 1994. Specialized in Tax Law from the Law School of Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 1991. Graduate of the Law School of Universidade de São Paulo (USP) in 1990. Additional Activities Regional Governor for South America of the International Association of Korean Lawyers. Senior Board Member of the BrazilChina Business Council. Transparency International’s representative in Brazil for the preparation of the “Progress Report 2014: Assessing Enforcement of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery”.
At-Large Council Member of the InterPacific Bar Association, representing Latin America (2012-2015). Member of the Advisory Board of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics. Member representing the Brazilian government in the Brazil-Korea Forum. Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP) by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE). Member of the Board of Directors of the Compliance Certification Board (CCB). Member of the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA). Non-officer member of SCCE/HCCA Board of Directors. Member of the Editorial Board of Global Investigations Review. Languages: English and Korean
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Mark Min-Hee Cho XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXX@tozzinifreire.com.br Tel.: (XX XX) XXXX-XXXX
Professional Experience Mark serves as foreign counsel at TozziniFreire, and has more than 16 years of experience representing foreign clients from all over the world, including major multinational and private equity companies on a variety of transactional and corporate matters relating to inbound and outbound mergers and acquisitions, asset sales, joint ventures, and venture capital investments. He has been involved in many transactions relating to energy, telecommunications, internet/gaming, real estate and construction, mining and metals, oil & gas, shipping, the automotive industry, pharmaceuticals and other sectors. Mark worked for major international law firms such as White & Case and Latham & Watkins in New York, and Kim & Chang in Korea. He also served as part of the executive management and as general counsel to a private equity firm based in Hong Kong and Singapore, where he was both involved in the management and was in charge of all legal matters of its portfolio companies, most of which were located in Latin America, Asia and Europe.
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