Hoseok Jung

Practice Areas

M&A, domestic and cross-border investment, corporate governance, shareholder/management disputes, venture capital, startup and emerging companies, joint ventures, securities, blockchain, cryptocurrency, initial coin offerings

Career

2012-present

SEUM

2020-present

Must Ventures Inc., Auditing Director

2018-present

Must Asset Management Inc., Auditing Director

2018-21

Korea Bar Association IT·Startup·Blockchain TF, Chairman

2009-12

Shin & Kim

Education

Languages Spoken

Korean, English

Work Highlights

Blockchain / Cryptocurrency

Represented MediBloc, a Gibraltar-based digital healthcare company, in connection with its initial coin offering of 5 billion MED tokens (ticker symbol MED)

Represented Cube Intelligence, a UK-based network security company for regular and self-driving automobiles, in connection with its initial coin offering (ticker symbol AUTO)

Advise Korbit, one of the largest Korean cryptocurrency exchanges, in connection with regulatory and general corporate matters

Advise Huobi Korea, the Korea subsidiary of a Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange that is one of the largest in the world, in connection with regulatory and general corporate matters

Advise Hashed, a leading Korea based crypto investor and accelerator, in connection with investment, regulatory and crypto fund matters

Advise Block.one, a Hong Kong-based software publisher specializing in blockchain technologies such as EOSIO (an open-source blockchain protocol designed to enable secure data transfer and decentralized applications), in connection with regulatory and crypto fund matters

Advise Coin Manager, an online crypto wallet company, in connection with regulatory and general corporate matters

General Startup Matters

Advise and represent 500 Startups, a US-based early-stage venture fund and seed accelerator, in connection with regulatory and general corporate matters, as well as investment financing

Advise and represent Channel Corporation, a retail data analytics company focusing on online and offline commerce, in connection with regulatory and general corporate matters, as well as investment financing

Advise and represent MangoPlate, Inc., a review forum which publishes crowd-sourced reviews about local dining options via a mobile app, in connection with regulatory and general corporate matters

Advise and represent D.CAMP, a startup accelerator, in connection with investment, employment and general corporate matters

Advise and represent Fast Track Asia, a startup accelerator, in connection with investment, employment and general corporate matters

Advise and represent The Ventures, a startup accelerator, in connection with investment, employment and general corporate matters

Advise and represent FuturePlay, a startup accelerator, in connection with investment, employment and general corporate matters

M&A / Venture Capital / Investment

Represented NAVER Corporation, a publicly listed leading internet portal and mobile company that provides services and content in various areas such as video platforms, community apps, AR camera content platform, translation, web browsing and mapping, in connection with its acquisition of Audion Sori, an audio book producer and publisher

-Represented LINE Corporation, a Japan-based mobile messaging and communication services platform company that provides services in various areas such as messaging, communication and content sales, and advertising services, in connection with its acquisition of Wit Studio, a company that develops software for UI designers and developers

Represented NHN Entertainment Corp., a publicly listed developer, publisher and distributor of mobile and PC games, in connection with its acquisition of Ticketlink, an online ticket reservation platform

Represented shareholders of Hello Nature, an online agriculture-based farm to consumer distribution service, in connection with its sale of shares to SK Planet, a subsidiary of Korean conglomerate SK Telecom that focuses on internet platform development

Represented Fluenty, a Korean startup developing interactive artificial intelligence platforms, with respect to the sale of its key technology and assets, as well as transfer of its employees, to Samsung Electronics

Represented shareholders of Fly&Company Inc., the company operating mobile food delivery app Foodfly, in connection with sale of their shares to RGP Korea, the Korea-arm of Berlin-based Delivery Hero Group

Represented Toss Lab, a startup that developed JANDI (a workplace productivity platform), in connection with funding round from SBI Investment, KDB Korea Development Bank, Daekyo Investment, and Evergreen Investment Partners

Represented Channel Corporation, a retail data analytics company focusing on online and offline commerce, in connection with its Series B funding round from both Korean and international venture capital funds such as Global Brain and Colopl Next

Represented shareholders of Bungaejangter Inc., one of the then-largest community-powered online shopping platforms, in connection with a sale of shares to NAVER Corporation, a publicly listed leading internet portal and mobile platform services company