While peers recognise the firm's strengths in financial and corporate work, Shin & Kim also has a strong IP department with 11 patent attorneys, two foreign legal consultants and a 20-member litigation team.
The multi-disciplinary lawyers took on several newsworthy matters last year, representing a large domestic tobacco manufacturing company in creating a brand licence agreement with a foreign company and successfully acting for an individual who sought compensation from his former employer for an invention made while he was at the company.
Several companies that have turned to the group for IP work include Seoul Broadcasting System, Starbucks Coffee Korea, SK Energy, Longchamp Korea, Bayer CropScience and Samsung SDI. Ghyo-Sun Park is a name to note in litigation matters relating to IP, while patent attorney Yong Mi Lee takes the lead in prosecution matters.