In-Young Lee is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s New York office. He focuses his practice on representation of Korean financial institutions, industrial concerns and trading companies and U.S. corporations conducting business in Korea.
In-Young has practiced in the area of international transactional law since 1983, concentrating on both corporate and litigation. In-Young’s corporate practice involves U.S. and cross-border M&A, international alliance and investment, intellectual property, global structuring and international restructuring. He has also successfully represented many foreign companies with respect to various commercial disputes, including international litigation and arbitration. His major representation includes a successful completion of the $5 billion international restructuring of Daewoo Group on behalf of KAMCO. This transaction involves over 100 member companies of Daewoo Group located in more than 50 countries as debtors and more than 350 international banks around the world as creditors. He also successfully represented HCB of Korea against JP Morgan in a $400 million lawsuit involving derivatives. This successful representation helped Korean banks and financial institutions come out of the aftermath of the IMF crisis.
Having obtained legal education in both a civil law country and an Anglo-American country, In-Young Lee has unique qualifications to understand and represent a client from one part of the world against a counterparty from, or before the forum in, another part of the world. The understanding of dual legal systems is particularly critical in a multi-jurisdictional litigation, where each jurisdiction has its own respective and different rule of law and practice. With his vast experience in bridging cultural and legal differences among many parts of the world, In-Young Lee advises clients with respect to particular issues arising out of an international context and global strategy and direction.
He has published various articles, including “The Effectiveness of Incentives Under the Foreign Capital Inducement Act of Korea,” and “Do They Get What They Want?: The International Technology Transfer.”
He has been admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and the states of Illinois and New York. He is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of International Trade.
Education
- University of California-Los Angeles School of Law, J.D., 1983
- Harvard Law School, LL.M., 1980
- Seoul National University College of Law, 1975
Languages Spoken
- English
- Korean
