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William Park

William Park heads Covington's Seoul office.  His experience includes representing companies and financial institutions on a range of matters including mergers and acquisitions, financing and real property transactions, corporate reorganizations, EPC contracts, Energy projects, and antitrust investigations in the US and EU.

He has also advised clients on special investigations by US and foreign governments, numerous arbitration, litigation and other types of dispute resolution matters in the US, Africa, Middle East and Latin America.  Select clients have included Korea National Oil Corporation, SK Innovation, SK hynix, Hyundai Heavy Industry, Kumho Group companies (notably Asiana Airlines, Kumho Petrochemical Co., Ltd, and Kumho Tire), Samsung Electronics, Samsung Engineering, Hyundai Motor, Hyundai Mobis, and several major Korean commercial banks including Woori Bank and Korea Exchange Bank.

On June 21, 2018, the European Commission (“Commission”) started a new investigation to determine whether so-called destination clauses in Qatar Petroleum’s liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) supply contracts with European buyers infringe the European Union (“EU”) antitrust rules.
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