“M&A League Table”
Chambers and Partners, “Chambers Asia-Pacific 2016 Leading Individuals – Corporate/M&A”
This year’s economics Nobel Prize has gone to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström, for their work on the theory of contracts. It’s about incentives, and imperfect information, and long-term relationships. But it’s related to lots of real-world economic issues — performance pay, mergers and acquisitions, and bank lending.
Chambers and Partners, “Chambers Asia-Pacific 2016 Leading Individuals – Dispute Resolution: Arbitration”
“Rapid Growth in the Legal Market for International Arbitration & Maritime Law”
During the past two years, we have seen signs that wage pressure is building as the economic recovery grinds on. Enough evidence has now accumulated to suggest that it is already happening.
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“KCCI Reinforces ICC Korea’s International Arbitration Committee – Mass Appointments of Professionals including Beomsu Kim from KL Partners as the vice Chairman”
Since the Great Recession, macroeconomic discussion has been dominated by discussions of aggregate demand, and how to create more of it through monetary and fiscal policies. That has led to a strange state of affairs where those topics still dominate the debate, even though they’ve done the job economics expects of them.
The Legal 500, “Asia Pacific 2016 International Arbitration Leading Individuals – John M. Kim”
Traders and investors trying to parse the statements coming from the world’s most important central bank are at a loss: Will an interest-rate increase come in September? And will there be one, two or no hikes this year?
“The Lawyer of the Year – Beomsu Kim, International Arbitration”
For a few decades, economists used to imagine how the world works, write down a theory describing their idea, and call it a day. If some statisticians came along and found some support for the theory, well, great! But usually they didn’t, and that was fine too. As one old joke put it, if an idea worked in practice, economists would ask whether it worked in theory.
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“Lonestar Hires ISD-Veteran Beomsu Kim before the Final Hearing”
One of the less heralded truths of economics is that growth miracles, while they make for good press, are overrated. It’s an insight that could help us better understand the outlook for developing countries such as China.
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Seong Hoon Yi from KL Partner – “Our Goal Is to Establish the Korean Version of Wachtell”
How many times have you heard someone say that the Federal Reserve’s asset-purchase program known as quantitative easing was ineffective? At least, that’s what I keep hearing from the usual pundits arguing their case.
GAR, “Shin & Kim trio launch boutique in Seoul”
The harm of inflation cited in economics textbooks seems laughably unimportant. For example, inflation generates so-called shoe-leather costs — a term for the hassle of moving money from one’s brokerage or savings account to one’s checking account. This hassle is larger when prices change a lot, since you have to put spending cash in your wallet more often.
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