Mr. Hyung Kil KIM is a partner at D&A LLC. His practice is primarily focused on Criminal Defense Litigation, Corporate, Construction & Real Estate, General Civil Disputes, Entertainment (Game, Sports, Etc.), and Criminal & Compliance.

Bar Admissions

• Admitted to Bar, Korea (2003)

Education

• Administrative Executive Program, Graduate School of Public Admnistration, Yonsei University (2018)
• W-Advanced Management Program, Sungkyunkwan University Business School (2010)
• Training Program, The George Washington University Law School (2007)
• College of Law, Sungkyunkwan University (LLB, 1987)
• Jeil High School (1983)

Significant Accomplishments

• D&A LLC (2019-Present)
• Prosecutor, Daegu High Prosecutors’ Office (2019)
• Head, Bucheon Branch of Incheon District Prosecutors’ Office (2018-2019)
• First Deputy Prosecutor, Daegu District Prosecutors’ Office (2017)
• Head, Gunsan Branch of Jeonju District Prosecutors’ Office (2016)
• Deputy Departmental Chief Prosecutor, Suwon District Prosecutors Office (Dispatched to the Korean Institute of Criminology and Justice (2015-2016)
• Departmental Chief Prosecutor, Criminal Chamber 1 of the Uijeongbu District Prosecutors’ Office (2014)
• Departmental Chief Prosecutor, Criminal Chamber 4 of the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office (2013)
• Departmental Chief Prosecutor, Criminal Chamber 2 of the Goyang Branch of the Uijeongbu District Prosecutors’ Office (2012)
• Departmental Chief Prosecutor, Criminal Chamber 5 of the Busan District Prosecutors’ Office (2011)
• Professor, Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (2009)
• Deputy Departmental Chief Prosecutor, Special Division 2 of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office (2008)
• Deputy Departmental Chief Prosecutor, Daejeon District Prosecutors’ Office (2007)
• Prosecutor, Daejeon District Prosecutors’ Office (2005)
• Prosecutor, Department of Legal Workforce Policy of the Ministry of Justice (2003)

Professional Activities and Experience

• Gained an indictment of the real culprit of the 2000 August Yakchon Five-way Intersection murder of a taxi driver and brought about a guilty ruling by the Supreme Court of Korea
• Handled a case on bribery during the 20th National Assembly Elections
• Handled a case on the illegal mobilization of college students during the 19th Presidential Elections
• Handled a case on the disclosure of false information during the 7th Simultaneous Local Elections
• Handled abandoned listing cases and stock price manipulation cases
• Handled a tax corruption case
• Handled various corruption cases arising from accounting fraud
• Handled a case on embezzlement in business of profits
• Handled a case on bidding interference related to graduation albums
• Handled a case of a high school soccer coach accepting bribes from parents for college admissions
• Handled a land fraud team case and a loan fraud team case
• Handled a case on the alteration of private documents of a member of the National Assembly
• Handled various bribery cases of ministers, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism civil servants, City Hall civil servants, Prosecutors’ Office civil servants, District Office civil servants, etc.
• Discovered a hidden case of assault and death
• Handled a case in which a secretary for a member of the National Assembly orchestrated a large fraud with the excuse of the sale of Tower Palace lots
• Handled a case in which the culturing technique for a protease, Arazyme, developed by the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology was leaked
• Requested an extradition for a cult leader accused of a sexual crime
• Conducted a conditional public sale in order to prosecute illegal fishing offenders who did not pay the extradition claim security in the exclusive economic zone, and to lead to a judgment of ship confiscation and prevent said ships from being provided for illegal fishing hereafter

• Bribery and Breach of Trust, Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (2010)