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Key contacts
Chairman and Managing Partner: Seok Hoon KANG
Quick facts
# Partners

300+

# Total number of lawyers

700+

Languages

Korean, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese, Burmese and Cambodian

Firm overview

Yulchon is a full-service law firm headquartered in Seoul, Korea, advising on a full range of specialized practice areas, including corporate & finance, antitrust, tax, real estate & construction, dispute resolution, intellectual property & technology, and labor & employment. With more than 700 professionals, in addition to its main office in Seoul, Yulchon has six overseas offices in five jurisdictions and has 10 regional practice teams covering the world.

Yulchon was established in 1997 by a group of top legal professionals to create “a community of legal experts combining their talents,” the literal meaning of Yulchon. Since its founding, Yulchon has grown rapidly without any mergers or acquisitions, becoming an acknowledged market leader among Korea’s law firms. Today, Yulchon lawyers rank among the very top practitioners in the country and work together in multidisciplinary teams to provide the highest quality of legal services to its clients.

Practice areas & sector specialisations
  • Banking and finance
  • Capital markets
  • Competition/antitrust
  • Construction
  • Corporate and M&A
  • Dispute resolution
  • General business law
  • Intellectual property
  • Investment funds
  • Labour and employment
  • Private equity
  • Regulatory
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Tax

Firm Practice Areas

Key practice contacts and recent case highlights

Corporate & Finance

Young Su SHIN

ysshin@yulchon.com

Jae Hyun PARK

jpark@yulchon.com

  • Yulchon M&A team represented Jaguar Global Growth Partners I, a US Nasdaq-listed SPAC, in its acquisition of GLAAM, a Korean architectural display glass maker

Antitrust/Competition

Jeong Keun YUN

jkyun@yulchon.com

  • Represented both Microsoft and Activision Blizzard as their joint Korean merger control counsel in Microsoft’s USD70 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard

Tax

Young Joon CHUN

yjchun@yulchon.com

Kun Jai KIM

kjkim@yulchon.com

  • Represented Mastern Asset Management and KB Asset Management in the acquisition of a majority interest in a Luxembourg joint venture vehicle. The firm conducted a comprehensive review of the tax laws across multiple jurisdictions

Real Estate & Construction

Nam Ho KIM

nhkim@yulchon.com

  • Represented a consortium of construction companies in a lawsuit for payment of KRW 35.8 billion additional construction costs brought against consortium members Hyundai E&C and GS E&C by a subcontractor for the installation of boilers of Samcheok Green Power Station, and secured a partial victory in the first-instance proceeding

Dispute Resolution

Jae Keun LEE

jaklee@yulchon.com

Jung Han OH

jhoh@yulchon.com

  • Representing the Korea Exchange in a Civil Action Brought by the Shareholders of Gamma Nu Inc. Seeking Damages Against the KRX for the Exchange’s Decision to Delist Gamma Nu

Intellectual Property & Technology

Doil SON

dison@yulchon.com

  • Yulchon secured punitive damages for wilful patent infringement on behalf of HS against HC Company

Labour & Employment

Sang Wook CHO

swcho@yulchon.com

  • Yulchon successfully represented Hyundai Digitech Core before the Supreme Court in an employee status confirmation case
Sector expertise
  • Aviation
  • Banking
  • Construction and materials
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Government and public policy
  • Healthcare
  • Insurance
  • Media
  • Natural resources
  • Pharmaceutical and life sciences
  • Real estate
  • Shipping
  • Social infrastructure
  • Technology and telecommunications

Firm Section Expertise

Other offices

CHINA - SHANGHAI

+86 21 6179 9834

shanghai@yulchon.com

MYANMAR - YANGON

+95 1 7537 088

yangon@yulchon.com

VIETNAM - HANOI

+84 24 3837 8200

hanoi@yulchon.com

VIETNAM - HO CHI MINH CITY

+84 28 3911 0225

hcmc@yulchon.com

INDONESIA - JAKARTA

+62 878 8994 7958

jakarta@yulchon.com

RUSSIA - MOSCOW

+7 495 510 5200

moscow@yulchon.com

Address:
Parnas Tower, 38F
521 Teheran-ro, Gangnam-gu
Seoul, 06164
South Korea
Tel:+82 2 528 5200 Fax:+82 2 528 5228 Email:Contact Us Web Address:yulchon.com
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