Mr. Daesung Kim is a partner at ClassHankyul. Mr. Kim has over 30 years of litigation experience, including 20 years of judicial experience, with a focus on construction, real estate, intellectual property, and family law in the civil realm and property crimes, election crimes, sex crimes, etc., in the criminal realm, and has recently been involved in M&A, corporation sales (including derivative litigation), attracting investment, etc.
While serving as a judge, Mr. Kim was the Presiding Judge of the Dedicated Construction Department and the Dedicated Intellectual Property Department, and while serving as the Presiding Judge of the Dedicated Intellectual Property Department, became a graduate student at KAIST, eventually graduating with a Masters in Engineering. Mr. Kim is now handling patent cases for KEPCO, among other cases, while practicing laws as an attorney.
In addition, Mr. Kim has experience with election law as the chairman of the Election Management Committees of Seongju-gun, Jung-gu in Daegu, Yongsan-gu in Seoul, Jongro-gu, Seongnam-si, and Chuncheon-si during Mr. Kim’s tenure as a judge, and before returning as an attorney, also handled cases involving violations of the Public Official Election Act by heads of local government. Mr. Kim handles litigation and legal advice with respect to real estate development projects, city improvement projects, etc., and has published papers on tax research, employee’s investions, punishment of digital sex crimes, etc., while serving as a judge.
Overview
Experience
- 1987 Passed 29th Korean Bar Exam
- 1988 ~ 1990 Enlisted as graduate-level officer, Judicial Research and Training Institute (19th Class)
- 1990 ~ 1998 Central International Patent Law Firm
- 2000 ~ 2007 Judge and Presiding Judge, Daegu District Court, Daegu High Court, Uijeongbu District Court
- 2007 ~ 2011 Presiding Judge, Suwon District Court Seongnam Branch, Seoul Southern District Court
- 2011 ~ 2016 Presiding Judge, Seoul Central District Court, Seoul Northern District Court
- 2016 ~ 2019 Presiding Judge, Suwon District Court
- 2019 ~ 2021 Presiding Judge, Chuncheon District Court
- 2021 ~ Present Partner, Lawfirm Class LLC, ClassHankyul
- 2022 ~ Present Advisory Attorney, KEPCO
- Advisory Attorney, Korea Technology Finance Corporation
- Advisory Attorney, Kimpo Main Biz
- Technology Protection Expert (pool), Regional Intellectual Property Center
- Advisory Attorney, Ogeum Regional Taxi Association
Education
- 1980 Daegu Shimin High School
- 1985 Seoul National University College of Law (LL.B.)
- 1988 Seoul National University Graduate School of Law
- 1999 US UC Berkeley (LL.M.)
- 2018 Masters of Engineering, KAIST
Representative Matters
- - S Construction Company construction cost, G Construction Company damages litigation
- - T real estate developer service fee claim litigation
- - Civil, criminal litigation involving regional housing association progress committees
- - Governance dispute litigation involving sale of corporations such as confirmation of director dismissal, application for convocation of extraordinary shareholders’ meeting, shareholders’ right confirmations, etc., involving the CH Construction Company
- - Nullification, divorce, and property division litigation
- - Fraud, embezzlement, breach of trust, sex crimes cases
- - Violations of the Public Official Election Act by current and former heads of regional governments
- - Applications for arbitration, patent litigation, legal advice for KEPCO
- - Legal advice for the Korea Technology Finance Corporation
- - Consultations and litigation involving real estate development investments
Publications
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Sole criminal judgments in appeals of criminal cases - - Research on sentencing for digital sex crimes
- - Legal issues involving imposed taxes
- - Research on compensation for employee's inventions
Daesung Kim
Attorney at Law
T. +82-2-2251-7514
F. +82-2-555-5008
E. dskims@classhklaw.com