Financial Services

01 Financial Transactions and Financial Institutions

K1 Chamber as a Trusted Advisor to Financial Institutions and various clients in financial services sector is perfectly equipped to assist with their legal requirements, whether to smoothly resolve a dispute or best structure a complex financial transaction. Our financial services team is committed to delivering strategic solutions to our clients' most complex challenges on both contentious and non-contentious matters. Our lawyers and experts have a deep understanding of the financial service industry gained from working at a variety of large domestic and foreign law firms, global financial institutions and corporations. Our deep industry knowledge with strategic advisory services offer bespoke, effective and proactive advice to enable client’s strategic decision making.

Team members seamlessly collaborate and innovate to provide optimal solutions for clients, integrating their experiences in both the advisory and contentious spheres in relation to offshore and onshore domiciled hedge funds and private equity funds, general banking and finance, project finance, real estate finance, securitization, structured finance, derivatives, capital markets, and digital finance.

02 Financial
Regulations

In order to respond to the tightened regulations of the financial supervisory authority, K1 Chamber provides optimized legal services through the systematic collaboration of lawyers and regulatory experts. Through a specialism of financial services, our professionals have relevant experiences.

For example, disciplinary sanction reviews can be conducted by financial regulation experts with years of experience from different angles of regulators at Financial Supervisory Service and bankers at global financial institutions. This is a distinctive strength of K1 Chamber compared to other law firms.

Our strong expertise and experience in this area enables us to support clients from the outset of a regulatory issue to its final resolution, advising on the best compliance enforcement as well as strategically responding to regulatory challenges when they arise.

03 Fund Solutions

K1 Chamber is equipped with capabilities to perform valuation, risk management, global asset recovery, problem diagnosis, post-processing and strategic solutions for onshore and offshore domiciled private equity funds and hedge funds. K1 Chamber can help you to recover and maximize the value of the fund's assets by understanding the overall positions of interested parties and stakeholders (e.g., investors, sellers, placement agents, asset managers and trustees).

In particular, K1 Chamber can seamlessly collaborate with overseas law firms and specialized institutions to assist with cases involving global recovery of overseas asset classes.

Since the fall of Lime Asset Management in 2018, there has been a strong increase in demand for strategic advisory solutions which can respond to the unique opportunities arising from and continued suspension of redemption of insolvent structured funds. K1 Chamber works closely with overseas law firms to form a dedicated team of multi-disciplinary experts in this field, who can resolve disputes between stakeholders in funds exposed to overseas underlying assets.

K1 Chamber can holistically analyze overseas underlying assets including the current status and valuation overcoming the hurdle of less accessible elements of non-Korean laws and regulations. K1 Chamber will present strategic responses and comprehensive solutions to clients.

04 Insolvency · Restructuring

K1 Chamber has advised debtors, creditors, investors and other interested parties in connection with court-supervised insolvency proceedings such as bankruptcy and rehabilitation in Korea.

K1 Chamber has restructuring related expertise to handle issues on delisting of companies at exchanges.