Mr. Kyeong Won CHOI is a legal counsel at D&A LLC. His practice is primarily focused on Finance & Restructuring, Construction & Real Estate, Reconstruction & Redevelopment, Corporate Restructuring, Insolvency & Restructuring, and Corporate.

Mr. CHOI has served as a legal counsel for Construction Guarantee Cooperative, Woori Bank, and National Health Insurance Service.

Bar Admissions

• Admitted to Bar, Korea (1990)

Education

• College of Law, Sungkyunkwan University (LLB, 1978)
• Samseon High School (1971)

Significant Accomplishments

• Legal Counsel, various SMEs
• Legal Counsel, National Health Insurance Service (Present)
• Legal Counsel, Woori Bank (Present)
• Legal Counsel, Construction Guarantee (Present)
• Legal Counsel, Korea Broadcast Service (Present)
• D&A LLC (2014-Present)
• Legal Counsel, POSCO ENERGY (2014)
• Legal Counsel, GS Caltex Corporation (2009)
• Legal Counsel, Kwanjeong Educational Foundation (2008)
• Attorney, Youngjin LLC (2008)
• Member Director, Korean Bar Association (2005)
• Finance Director, Korean Bar Association (2001)
• Director, Seoul Bar Association (1999)
• Legal Counsel, Yecheon-gun (1999)
• Legal Counsel, KAIST (1999)
• Legal Counsel, Green Cross Corp. (1999)
• Director, Korean Bar Association (1997)
• Member, Committee for Medium and Small Business Legal Counsel, Seoul Bar Association (1997)
• Legal Counsel, Sam Young Chemical Co., Ltd. (1995)
• Legal Counsel, KITC (1995)
• Arbitrator, Korea Commercial Arbitration Board (1993)
• Director, Korean Bar Association (1992)
• Expert Committee Member, Government Complaint Center (1992)
• Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (1990)

Professional Activities and Experience

• Leading a case to a judgment of reversal of repatriation related to the effect of the registration of the establishment of the root mortgage set in the real estate where the medical welfare facility for the elderly is installed and operated

• Commercialisation of Healthcare in South Korea: Overview, Practical Law, Thomson Reuters (Co-author, 2021)
• Related Issues and Measures to Improve the Revision Adjudication Request (Related to Its Timing and Retroactive Effect), Symposium for the 20th Anniversary of the Patent Court of Korea, the Patent Court of Korea (2018)
• Examining the New Basis for Refusal Not Allowed in the Litigation to Revoke the Rulings to Dismiss the Request for Appeal Against the (Patent Registration) Refusal Decision, the Supreme Court Special Litigation Working Group, Judicial Development Foundation (2018)
• Proposal for Optimization of Inventive Step Judgment, Patent Litigation Research Vol. 7, Patent Court of Korea (2017)
• Composition of the Invention-to-be-Confirmed Subject to the Judgment of the Prior-Art Defense, LAW & TECHNOLOGY, Seoul National University Center for Technology and Law (2016)
• 100 Information Law Cases (2), Korea Information Law Society, Pakyoungsa (Co-author, 2016)
• Commentary on the Design Protection Act, Pakyoungsa (Co-author, 2015)
• Regarding Primary Patent Requirements for Numerical Limitation Inventions, the Supreme Court Special Litigation Working Group, Judicial Development Foundation (2015)
• Intellectual Property Litigation Practice (3rd Edition), the Patent Court of Korea Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Research Group, Pakyoungsa (Co-author, 2014)
• 100 Patent Law Cases (4th Edition), Compilated by Korea Patent Law Society, Pakyoungsa (Co-compilator, 2014)
• The Heterogeneous Effect of Numerical Limitation Inventions, LAW & TECHNOLOGY, Seoul National University Center for Technology and Law (2014)
• Review of Patent Law Article 63 and 170 Cases by Type, LAW & TECHNOLOGY, Seoul National University Center for Technology and Law (2013)
• Intellectual Property Trial Practice Handbook, Court Administration Office (Co-author, 2004)