Mr. In Jin KIM is a partner at D&A LLC. His practice is primarily focused on Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate, Corporate Restructuring, Insolvency & Restructuring, Finance & Restructuring, Construction & Real Estate, and Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG).

Mr. Kim was selected as a Leading Lawyer for 2021 in Securities and Finance by the Legal Times.

Bar Admissions

• Admitted to Bar, Korea (1993)

Education

• College of Law, Korea University (LLB, 1988)

Significant Accomplishments

• D&A LLC (2019-Present)
• Attorney, Hankyul Law Firm (2014)
• Attorney, One Law Partners LLC (2009-2014)
• Attorney, Hanvit Law Firm (1996)
• Judge Advocate, ROK Army (1993-1996)
• Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (1993)

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

• Amendment to the South Korean Private Equity Funds in Accordance with the Revised Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets Act (Co-author, Lexology, Law Business Research, 2021)