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Litigation for Exercise of Minority Shareholders’ Rights

Introduction

The financial investor litigation team provides professional litigation support/representation by our lawyers and accountants, with distinguished abilities and experience to prevent damages to financial investors, whose number is rapidly increasing. Based on professional knowledge in financial investment, such as stock price manipulation, accounting fraud and false audit, the exercise of minority shareholders' rights, stock purchase price determination, incomplete fund sales, damage related to futures options, lawsuits against CEOs, and disputes related to granting of stock options, our team proactively supports all phases of dispute resolution in many different areas.

Major Business

Response to Victims of Investment in Financial Products (Stocks, Bonds, Funds, Futures/Options, Money Market Trusts, ELS, DLS, ELW, ETF)

- Damages claims filed by victims against the company, external auditors, trust agents, related executives and employees, supervisory agencies, etc.
- Criminal charges/accusations related to investment losses from financial products, due to financial fraud, stock price manipulation, accounting fraud, and violation of capital market laws, etc.
- Mediation of financial disputes such as financial fraud, stock price manipulation, accounting fraud, and violation of capital market laws

Exercise of Minority Shareholders’ Rights Exercise and Response to Damages

- Determination of stock purchase price through merger, business transfer, comprehensive stock exchange, and exercise of the call option
- Response to minority shareholder squeeze-outs, claims for damages, and determination of stock purchase price
- Request for and injunction on the inspection and copy of shareholder list and accounting ledger
- Response for general shareholders' meeting, request for and injunction to convene a special meeting of shareholders, and injunction to select agenda
- Lawsuit filing against CEOs, for criminal complaints/accusations related to embezzlement and breach of trust by company executives
- Request for order to dissolve the company, and appointment of an inspector

Response to Investors Victimized by Financial Institutions’ Illegal Activities

- Cancellation of contracts for incomplete sales of various financial products such as funds, bonds, money market trusts, ELS, ELW, DLS, etc., claims for damages, and applications for financial dispute mediation
- Unfair counter-trading of derivatives such as stocks, futures/options, etc., claims for damages due to rollover, application for financial dispute mediation
 

Major Performance

Litigation for damages for fraudulent accounting, inadequate auditing and misleading disclosures

- Damages for investors in DSME Corporate Bond (represented 14 institutional investors)
- Damages for investors in DSME (represented 7 institutional investors)
- Damages due to deficient auditing of Taihan Cable & Solution's fraudulent accounting
- Ostem Implant's false disclosure case (represented institutional investors)
- Damages due to false disclosure of Kolon TissueGene and Kolon Life Science Inbosa
- Damages due to fraudulent accounting of Samsung Biologics
- State compensation for Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries merger
- Haewon ST's fraudulent accounting and deficient auditing
- Fraudulent accounting and deficient auditing of Hansol SeenTec (represented 3 major pension funds and 4 asset managers)
- Wooyang HC's fraudulent accounting and deficient auditing
- Damages due to AJS's fraudulent accounting and deficient auditing
- EXA E&C's fraudulent accounting
- Kookje Construction Company's fraudulent accounting
- Cecile's fraudulent accounting
- Tozai Holdings' fraudulent accounting and deficient auditing
- MCTT Core's fraudulent accounting and deficient auditing
- Daeyang Global's fraudulent accounting and deficient auditing
- JH Cos' fraudulent accounting and deficient auditing
- DH Fashion's fraudulent accounting and deficient auditing
- UI Energy's fraudulent accounting and deficient auditing
- Compensation for damage due to the misleading investment prospectus of China Gaoxian

Litigation for damages due to stock price manipulation

- Compensation for damage due to CL International's stock price manipulation
- Criminal complaint against BioVill's stock price manipulation
- H&T's stock price manipulation
- EXA E&C's stock price manipulation
- Gloworks’ stock price manipulation
- KDC's stock price manipulation

Litigation to enforce minority shareholder rights

- Request for dissolution order of Korea Rotary, provisional injunction on shareholder list, derivative litigation
- Derivative litigation against Sewontech
- Derivative litigation against Tailim Packaging
- Derivative litigation against SPC group
- Request for access and copying Alteogen's shareholder list
- Injunction against the issuance of new shares to SK Telink
- Injunction against AtlasBX shareholders' meeting
- Responded to the Financial Supervisory Service in connection with the calculation of the merger ratio of Samkwang Glass and obtained an injunction to access and copy the accounting books
- Injunction suspending the execution of Ui Energy, request to convene an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders, etc.
- Acquisition of Araontech by minority shareholders
- Invalidation of the capital reduction against Douzone Das
- Injunction accessing and copying Millinet's shareholder list, request to convene an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders, etc.
- Annulment of the resolution of the general shareholders' meeting of Artis, injunction against execution
- Injunction against the issuance of new shares of Hi Investment & Securities
 
Cases of share purchase price determination for minority shareholders and response to the freeze-out of minority shareholders

- Share purchase price determination of Taelim Paper
- Litigation for damages by minority shareholders who were frozen out in the share merger of Saint-Gobain Korea
- Share purchase price determination of a Japanese semiconductor equipment company
- Share purchase price determination of POSCO ESM
- Share purchase price determination of AtlasBX
- Share buyback request and share purchase price determination of Empark Holdings
- Share buyback request and share purchase price determination of Insunet
- Case on the share purchase price determination for shareholders dissenting from Hanil Syntetic Fiber's merger
- Case on the share purchase price determination for the merger of Secron, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics 
- Share purchase price determination for shareholders dissenting from Chungju MBC/s merger
- Share purchase price determination of Sports Toto
- Request sale of shares of J Savings Bank

Litigation for damages related to wrongful or illegal acts by financial institutions and others

- Damages due to improper offset of Nikkei225 options
- Contract cancellation of the Optimus Fund and damages (professional investors)
- Contract cancellation of the Australian NDIS Fund and damages (represented institutional investors)
- Damages for defective prospectus of a Russian fund
- Damages for KOSPI200 Option of Korea Investment & Securities
- Damages for mis-selling of specified money trusts of Korea Investment & Securities
- Litigation for damages for the loss of H Securities' investment in the Las Vegas DREW Hotel
- Advised Samsung Asset Management on wrongful rollover damages for crude oil ETFs
- Advised on damages for discretionary wrap account
- Damages for DLS mis-selling of Korea Investment & Securities
- Leadis Technology (NASDAQ-listed company) stock option dispute
- Damages for incomplete sales of Dongbu Securities
- Damages for discretionary trading of Daishin Securities
 

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