2025 K-LAW Highlights

In 2025, K-Law Consulting delivered strategy-driven cross-border legal advisory across the corporate lifecycle—operations, transactions, disputes, restructuring, and wind-down—for clients operating between the United States and Korea. We also supported Korean inheritance matters for U.S. residents, where procedures, documentation, and multi-agency coordination often intersect, with an emphasis on practical, execution-ready roadmaps.

Key Practice Areas (2025)

• U.S. dissolution and wind-down (A to Z): integrated planning across liabilities, employment offboarding, contracts/IP, and tax/regulatory risk

  
  

• Cross-border disputes & litigation strategy: pre-litigation assessment, jurisdiction/ governing law/enforceability, and settlement vs. litigation decision points

  
  

• Cross-border M&A and investments (Korea→U.S./U.S.→Korea): structuring, diligence, negotiation, and closing support

  
  

• U.S. subsidiary operations advisory: contracts, HR/employment, stock options, and trademark/IP licensing

  
  

• Korea subsidiary operations (A to Z): entity set-up, FX/investment considerations, labor, tax/accounting coordination, and practical execution roadmap

  
  

• Investment and fundraising advisory (Korea ↔ U.S.): legal/regulatory framework plus documentation and negotiation support

  
  

• Korean inheritance matters for U.S. residents: roadmap-based support for distribution agreements, registrations, coordination of tax payment procedures, and post-registration disposition/distribution—coordinated closely with Korea-based tax accountants and judicial scriveners (beopmusa)

1. U.S. Entity Dissolution & Wind-Down (A to Z)

A wind-down is rarely just a filing. In practice, it involves synchronized handling of liabilities, contract terminations, employment offboarding, potential claims, tax/ compliance checkpoints, and IP/assets.

K-Law Consulting supported end-to-end planning and execution, including:

• governance actions (board/member resolutions) and authority mapping

• dissolution filings and procedural design

• creditor/counterparty communications (termination/settlement framework)

• claim and litigation-risk assessment with actionable options

• HR offboarding documentation and process support

• contract termination and residual-obligation tracking

• tax/compliance checkpoints and recordkeeping strategy

• trademark/IP and license clean-up (as applicable)

Our focus is not merely “completing steps,” but reducing residual risk with predictable cost and timeline.

2. Cross-Border Disputes & Litigation Strategy

Cross-border disputes require tailored strategies due to differences in discovery, evidence, cost structure, timing, and reputational impact, especially when decisions must be made through a Korea-based HQ process.

Support included:

• pre-litigation issue/evidence/cost-timeline mapping

• jurisdiction, governing law, and cross-border enforceability analysis

• settlement vs. litigation decision points and timing strategy

• coordination with U.S. counsel and HQ reporting/approval flows

• practical support for discovery and litigation-hold risk management

3. Cross-Border M&A and Investments (Korea→U.S. / U.S.→Korea)

Cross-border M&A is a continuous project from diligence → structuring → negotiation → closing → PMI, where execution feasibility matters as much as documentation.

Support included:

• deal structuring (governance, risk allocation, operational feasibility)

• diligence issue spotting and prioritization

• drafting and negotiating transaction documents (conditions, reps/warranties, indemnities, covenants)

• closing support and post-closing risk checklists from a PMI lens

• coordination with U.S./Korea specialists as needed

4. U.S. Subsidiary Operations Advisory

Operational risks often concentrate around contracts, HR/employment, incentives (stock options), and trademark/IP licensing, which are frequently interconnected.

Support included:

• contract systems (templates, approvals, authority matrix)

• HR/employment documentation and risk mitigation

• stock option/incentive structures and operational administration

• trademark/IP licensing frameworks (including intercompany arrangements)

• clarity of HQ–subsidiary authority and responsibility

5. Korea Subsidiary Operations (A to Z)

Operating in Korea involves overlapping corporate, FX/investment, labor, tax/accounting, and regulatory layers. We supported clients with a practical execution roadmap, including:

• entity set-up and foreign investment/FX considerations

• governance documents and corporate registrations

• labor and HR risk controls (contracts, policies, processes)

• tax/accounting and regulatory checkpoints (with specialists where appropriate)

• timeline/documentation/agency coordination planning

6. Investment & Fundraising Advisory (Korea ↔ U.S.)

We supported investment and fundraising matters with emphasis on clear structures and durable post-closing operation, including:

• structured guidance on legal/regulatory frameworks and practice

• investment structuring (rights/obligations, governance, exit considerations)

• drafting and negotiation support

• documentation and operational controls to reduce post-closing disputes

7. Korean Inheritance Matters for U.S. Residents

(Roadmap-Based, One-Stop Support)

In 2025, K-Law Consulting supported Korean inheritance matters involving Korean assets (e.g., real estate and financial assets) for heirs residing in the United States. Depending on asset types, the number and location of heirs, and any complexity in rights or relationships, these matters can require multi-layered coordination across documentation, registrations, and tax-related procedures.

Depending on the facts, we supported clients by:

• organizing issues and supporting inheritance distribution agreements and related documentation

• supporting registrations/record changes for inherited assets

• coordinating timelines and documentation for tax-payment procedures

• supporting post-registration disposition (sale, gift/transfer, etc.) and distribution planning

• organizing workflows to reduce the need for heirs to travel to Korea, where feasible

K-Law Consulting’s “one-stop support” is designed to reduce the client’s coordination burden by closely collaborating with Korea-based tax accountants and judicial scriveners (beopmusa) and managing the overall timeline and documentation flow in an integrated manner. Where specialized work is required for filings, registrations, or related procedures, we help structure the scope and coordinate with the appropriate professionals so clients can move through the process more efficiently.

We aim to provide clear options and a manageable process, without overstating outcomes that depend on case-specific facts and third-party procedures.

Why K-Law Consulting

K-Law Consulting connects transactions–operations–disputes–wind-down–inheritance as a continuum and delivers execution-ready, strategy-driven advisory:

• Cross-border fluency across legal and operational realities

• Structured options and risk trade-offs for decision-makers

• Risk control mindful of cost, timing, and reputational exposure

• Effective coordination with U.S. and Korea counsel and specialists

• One-stop, roadmap-based support for complex, multi-step matters (including close collaboration with Korea-based tax accountants and judicial scriveners)