Korea

The scope of our work includes representation of airlines, financial institutions, telecommunications companies, automakers, fashion retailers, Internet service providers, steel manufacturers, utilities companies, food companies, technology companies and pharmaceutical companies.

We assist with various legal matters including corporate formation, financings, M&A, securities, real estate, intellectual property, licensing, employment and labor matters, tax, and privacy and data protection. For companies seeking to engage in financing, we help access capital, analyze capital structures, develop employee incentive and stock arrangements and evaluate financing alternatives.

Our experience includes:

• Corporate and Securities Matters
  • Pillsbury represents international corporations, including Korean companies, in connection with M&A, venture capital, strategic alliances, securities trading and other corporate transactions matters. We have corporate-focused lawyers handling matters in various legal areas, including financing, stock investment, corporate governance and compliance.
• Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
  • We represent clients in complex, negotiated and non-negotiated domestic and cross-border M&A transactions involving public and private companies, going-private transactions, privatizations and leveraged buyouts. Our clients include bidders, targets, significant stockholders, boards of directors and special committees, as well as lenders. We advise on proxy contests and solicitations and challenges, takeover defensive measures, acquisitions of distressed assets in and out of bankruptcy, loans and leveraged buyouts.
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Financing
  • We guide startups through all stages of the investment process and help clients protect their intellectual property, negotiate optimal distribution deals and strategic alliances, and implement growth strategies. Further, we represent venture capital and private equity investors in structuring their investments in portfolio companies, as well as portfolio companies in capital raising and in implementing growth strategies. Beyond legal services, we frequently connect the venture capitalists we know with companies we represent.
• Capital Markets Transactions and Public Company Representation
  • Pillsbury’s Capital Markets lawyers provide strategic guidance on all facets of securities transactions, regularly advising on public offerings and private placements, including initial public offerings (IPOs), de-SPAC transactions, SEC-registered and Rule 144A offerings and in assisting public company clients with their 1934 Act filings.
• Bank and Finance, Including Project Finance
  • Pillsbury’s Finance lawyers represent corporations, banks, insurance companies, investment funds in commercial lending, derivatives, equipment finance, leveraged finance, project finance, trade finance, structured finance, debt restructuring, tax-exempt financing, and distressed investing and debt trading. We offer a broad spectrum of corporate trust and agency services, from initial issuance to defaulted obligations, and we are experienced in cross-border credit facilities and a multitude of deal structures in the major- and middle-market sectors.
• Corporate Structuring
  • From formation through financing, acquisitions and joint ventures, Pillsbury’s corporate lawyers advise companies on a global scale and at every life cycle stage. Our business-savvy corporate lawyers combine industry and regulatory knowledge with extensive deal experience and legal skills to provide comprehensive service to clients across industries. We routinely advise non-U.S. companies on the establishment of operations in the United States, including formation of subsidiaries, advice on choice of legal entity and corporate organizational structure, assistance with registrations in states and other local U.S. jurisdictions, negotiation of commercial agreements and financing arrangements with U.S. counterparties, advice on corporate governance matters, and compliance with other corporate legal requirements on U.S. business operations.
• Nuclear and Fusion Energy
  • Ranked among the elite by both Chambers USA and Chambers Global, Pillsbury possesses one of the world’s top nuclear energy teams—a trailblazing practice with a 60-year track record full of firsts. Our team includes innovators who have helped advise on first-of-its-kind technologies, thought leaders who understand the modernization of nuclear energy and advanced nuclear technologies and the commerciality to complete deals. We are currently advising nuclear power plant operators, investors, financial institutions, governments, reactor suppliers and other industry participants. We provide advice on policy, regulation, transactions, litigation, intellectual property, real estate and land use.
  • Our fusion energy practice complements our well-established focus on the energy transition—including positions at the forefront of hydrogen, renewable energy and sustainable finance. Our lawyers are helping commercial fusion developers understand the regulatory frameworks that will impact their projects, providing established companies and utilities with guidance on meeting decarbonization goals with fusion power, collaborating with international and national agencies to develop standards and guidelines for the global deployment of fusion technologies, and working with the investment and finance communities on how fusion fits into their overall sustainability programs.
• Energy and Infrastructure Projects
  • We advise on energy and infrastructure projects across a range of sectors, including transport, power, water, LNG, chemical and petrochemicals, and in a range of upstream and downstream energy work, including acquisitions and disposals, joint operating agreements, farmout agreements, PSCs and concession agreements, and gas and LNG sale and purchase agreements, as well as EPC and construction work.
• Intellectual Property
  • We help clients develop comprehensive IP strategies for protecting, managing, asserting, defending and leveraging their patents, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, trade secrets and other IP assets. We assist with IP audits and negotiate licensing and technology transfer agreements. In addition, our highly regarded IP practice lawyers in the United States have represented clients before the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts in all jurisdictions, including regional federal appellate courts and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and they have extensive experience before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Customs Service, the ITC, alternative dispute resolution tribunals and ICAAN.
• Litigation, International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution
  • Pillsbury’s International Arbitration team consists of lawyers with decades of experience adjudicating disputes administered by international arbitral institutions worldwide. Team members have appeared before arbitral tribunals for governments, investors, developers, equipment manufacturers, construction companies and others. We have handled disputes involving energy and power projects, construction and infrastructure, defense industry procurements, intellectual property, environmental issues, supplier-distributor issues, international trade, real estate, life sciences, financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and all sorts of commercial matters. The proceedings have been conducted in venues as diverse as Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North America, South America and Africa.
• Antitrust and Competition Law
  • Pillsbury’s Antitrust & Competition Team is distinguished by its experience handling complex antitrust litigation and by its track record securing favorable resolutions through successful litigation, negotiated settlements and jury trials. Our strengths include the effective and efficient management of multidistrict class action litigation and parallel criminal antitrust investigations. We have deep experience defending clients in litigation in federal and state courts across the country involving claims such as price fixing, monopolization, boycotts, tying, unfair competition, misappropriation of trade secrets, trade libel, deceptive trade practices and other business torts. We have significant experience handling enforcement agency actions before the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and states’ Attorneys General.
• Investment Funds and Investment Management
  • Pillsbury’s Investment Funds group provides strategic and legal guidance to investment management industry participants. Our lawyers counsel registered and exempt investment advisers, including private equity, hedge fund and mutual fund managers, and benefit plan fiduciaries, in all aspects of their businesses, including fund structuring and formation, managed accounts, funds-of-one advisory and sub-advisory arrangements.
• Licensing, Franchising, Marketing and Advertising
  • Pillsbury lawyers advise clients regarding all aspects of marketing, distribution and franchising. We provide guidance on distributor, dealer and franchise networks, systems, operations and agreements; sales agents, direct sales and internet-related issues; and compliance with antitrust, franchise and other trade regulation laws.
• Technology, Media and Telecoms
  • From transactional guidance through regulatory compliance and dispute resolution, Pillsbury’s Communications team provides comprehensive counsel and representation to telecommunications companies and those engaged in business with them. We represent wireline and VoIP service providers and others in rulemaking proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), state public utility commissions, the International Telecommunications Union, and the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission, before Congress, in state legislatures, and in state and federal court litigation.
• Government and Regulatory Advisory
  • Pillsbury’s regulatory lawyers operate on the front lines of law and policy. We ensure compliance with existing rules while anticipating new developments prompted by international turmoil, technological advances or changing worldviews. Pillsbury’s Regulatory practices help clients understand the implications of government programs. This work spans governmental investigations, compliance program development and implementation, regulatory hearings, government contract and spending initiatives and public policy advocacy. Our experienced team advises on federal, state and regional regulatory issues and advocates for corporate, industry and nonprofit entities at all government levels. Working collaboratively with lawyers in our Washington, DC-area offices, we create efficiencies and facilitate access to federal regulatory agencies and Capitol Hill.
• Media and Entertainment Law
  • Pillsbury lawyers provide strategic guidance to top entertainment companies—promoters, production companies and studios, talent agencies, distributors, directors, producers, publishers, investors and creatives—as well as many other types of businesses on all manner of media-related business, litigation and regulatory matters. We advise and assist these clients on a wide range of legal issues, including the following: celebrity branding, endorsements and performance contracts, collaborations and content licensing.