Lunch Panel Discussion: Opening of the Korean Legal Market to U.S. Law Firms
With the recent entry into force of the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, U.S. law firms are now permitted to open offices in South Korea. A number of U.S. firms are already rushing to be the first to arrive.
Please join the Center for Korean Legal Studies in a discussion on these developments with the law firm of McDermott Will & Emory, LLP, one of the first U.S. law firms to be actively engaged in establishing a South Korean presence. For a comparative and historical perspective, we will be joined by leading experts on the opening of the legal markets in China and Japan.
Thursday,March 29
12:10 PM – 1:10 PM
William and June Warren Hall Rm L107
Korean lunch will be served
Panelists
In-Young Lee, Partner and Head of Korea Practice Group, McDermott Will & Emery, LLP. Mr. Lee representsKorean financial institutions, industrial concerns and trading companies and U.S. corporations conducting business in Korea.
Jay Eizenstat, Partner and Member of Korea Practice Group, McDermott Will & Emery, LLP. Mr. Eizenstat focuses on trade and WTO matters involving the interests of multinational corporations in Asia, with a particular focus on Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore.
Owen Nee, Adjunct Faculty, Columbia Law School, and Senior Counsel, Global Practice Group at the New York City and Shanghai offices of Greenberg Traurig, LLP. Mr. Nee is known world-wide as a legal pioneer in China, having opened the first western law firm in the country in the 1970s.
Robert DeLaMater, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP. Mr. DeLaMater was involved with the expansion of foreign lawyer access to the legal marketplace in Japan during the 1990’s and was the partner in charge of Sullivan’s Asia practice when they opened in Beijing in 1999.
Moderated By
Joseph Harte, Deputy Director, Center for Korean Legal Studies
