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Tae Eon KOO Attorney
T. +82-2-3477-8695 F. +82-2-3477-8694 E. tekoo@law-lin.com
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Attorney Tae Eon (Ted) KOO worked as a core member (Public Prosecutor) of Computer Crime Unit and Hi-Tech Crime Unit at Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in Seoul from 2002 to 2005. He introduced digital forensic techniques to investigation in early 2002, leading many investigations to remarkable successes. He joined Kim & Chang in 2006 as an attorney. Areas of practice included handling emerging issues in TMT industry, especially those related to e-commerce, privacy, information technology, digital forensics, protecting trade secrets, e-discovery, data protection, and litigating those issues in trial cases by investigative and forensic methodologies. As a Managing Partner for TEK&LAW LLP, his specialty was in blockchain law, cryptocurrency & ICO, private information protection, trade secret protection, financial security, corporate legal compliance, and cyber-crime and criminal defense. He is currently the head of Law Firm Lin’s TMT· Data Security department. He advises on blockchain law, cryptocurrency & ICO, Fintech, Healthcare Tech, Reg Tech along with private information protection, trade secret protection, financial security, corporate legal compliance, and cyber-crime and criminal defense.
Attorney Tae Eon (Ted) KOO worked as a core member (Public Prosecutor) of Computer Crime Unit and Hi-Tech Crime Unit at Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in Seoul from 2002 to 2005. He introduced digital forensic techniques to investigation in early 2002, leading many investigations to remarkable successes. He joined Kim & Chang in 2006 as an attorney. Areas of practice included handling emerging issues in TMT industry, especially those related to e-commerce, privacy, information technology, digital forensics, protecting trade secrets, e-discovery, data protection, and litigating those issues in trial cases by investigative and forensic methodologies. As a Managing Partner for TEK&LAW LLP, his specialty was in blockchain law, cryptocurrency & ICO, private information protection, trade secret protection, financial security, corporate legal compliance, and cyber-crime and criminal defense. He is currently the head of Law Firm Lin’s TMT· Data Security department. He advises on blockchain law, cryptocurrency & ICO, Fintech, Healthcare Tech, Reg Tech along with private information protection, trade secret protection, financial security, corporate legal compliance, and cyber-crime and criminal defense.
Profile
Experience

• Head of TMT· Data Security department, Law Firm Lin (2019)
• Managing Partner, TEK&LAW LLP (2012 - 2019)
• Partner, Kim & Chang (2006 - 2011)
• Public Prosecutor, Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office (1993 - 2005)

Representative Matters 화살표 화살표
• Advised on mass data breach cases for risk and litigation management (experience in representing several highly-publicized data theft cases)
• Advised healthcare, financial and fintech companies with data protection laws
• Advised blockchain companies with ICO/IEO/STO and regulatory compliance
• Advised on trade secret civil/criminal cases
• Advised on digital forensic, regulatory sandbox, and financial data protection
Education
• Korea University (BA, Law 1991)
• Korea University School of Cybersecurity (MSc Information Security 2014)
• Santa Clara University Law School (Visiting Scholar)
• Korean Bar Examination (34th)
• Judicial Research and Training Institute (24th)
Qualifications
• Attorney at law (Korea)
• Patent Attorney (Korea)
• Tax Attorney (Korea)
Publications/Thesis
• Research on enhancing personal data processing accountability (2014/Committee on personal data protection)
• A study on the personal data definition clause, consent regime and justifiability of criminal penalty (2014/Korea Association of Informedia Law)
• Personal Data Protection Law and Policy (2014/pybook)
• Fin-tech, grabbing an opportunity (2015/co-authored)
• We cannot regulate future (2018)
Practice Areas
• Personal Data Protection, Trade Secret, Financial Security;
• Corporate, Compliance, White-collar Crime;
• Electronic Commerce, Intellectual Property, Digital Forensic;
• Blockchain, Cryptocurrency;
• Digital Healthcare, FinTech
Languages
• Korean
• English
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