Ho Keun Ryu > Kim & Chang > Seoul, South Korea > Lawyer Profile
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JONGNO-GU
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Ho Keun Ryu
Work Department
Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense; Corporate Governance & Shareholder Disputes; Labor & Employment
Career
Ho Keun Ryu is an attorney in Kim & Chang’s Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense Practice.
Before joining the firm in 2011, he served as a public prosecutor for 18 years. He acquired extensive experience with various types of criminal cases during his distinguished tenure at the Prosecutors’ Office and is familiar with criminal law issues related to labor-management disputes.
Some of his representative cases include responding to strikes in the Korea Railroad labor union case (2010) and the Kia Motors labor union case (1998).
During his term in the Ministry of Justice, he dealt with various kinds of international legal affairs including extradition, mutual assistance in criminal matters, transfer of sentenced persons, and Korea-Singapore and Korea-Japan FTA negotiations.
Languages
Korean and English
Memberships
Admitted to bar, Korea, 1993
Education
University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law, Canada (Visiting Scholar, 1999-2000)
Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (1993)
Seoul National University (LL.B., 1988)
Lawyer Rankings
South Korea > Regulatory: compliance and investigations: local firms
(Leading individuals)Kim & Chang‘s market-leading practice handles the full breadth of corporate investigations and white-collar defence work, and evidences broad sector expertise. Highly esteemed criminal defence lawyer Kook Hyun Yoo leads the practice, and continues to be involved in major corporate criminal investigations. Criminal defence expert Ho Keun Ryu handles occupational negligence and criminal investigations into tax evasion, while Sung Won Hong focuses on cases within industrials and manufacturing and consumer goods industries. Senior associate Miji Song advises on corporate investigations, anti-corruption prosecution, and compliance cases for both public and private companies.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals South Korea > Regulatory: compliance and investigations: local firms
- Regulatory: compliance and investigations: local firms South Korea
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition: local firms
- Banking and finance: local firms
- Capital markets: local firms
- Corporate and M&A: local firms
- Dispute resolution: local firms
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms
- Insurance: local firms
- Intellectual property: local firms
- International arbitration
- Labour and employment: local firms
- Projects and energy: local firms
- Real estate: local firms
- Regulatory: compliance and investigations: local firms
- Shipping: local firms
- Tax: local firms
- TMT: local firms