YOON & YANG - Key Persons
Bo Hyun Lee is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC. His main practice areas include corporate finance, M&A, corporate governance, management rights disputes, real estate investment companies, financial regulations, virtual assets, anti-money laundering, and finance related litigation and transactions.
Mr. Lee has extensive experience in management rights disputes relating to corporate governance and hostile M&As, such as acquisition finance, IPO and public offerings, and establishment and conversion of holding companies. He also advises on real estate investments and developments through real estate investment companies, and public offering of real estate investment companies, climate finance (carbon credit finance) based on a clean development system, blockchain and cryptocurrencies and related electronic financial transactions, and money laundering and financial regulations. Finally, based on his expertise in analyzing and responding to regulations related to banking, securities, and insurance, he represents clients in financial disputes and litigation.
Experience
2007-present Yoon & Yang LLC
Chang Wook Shin is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC and his main practice areas include real estate financing and investment, project financing, trust, real estate development and transactions, project financing and real estate financing, real estate trust, and construction, etc.
In addition to general transactions and investment regarding real estate, Mr. Shin also advises on projects that sell, purchase or develop commercial buildings, e.g. office, logistics centers and hotels, by establishing or creating indirect investment vehicles including REITs, real estate funds, and project financing vehicles, etc. Further, he has achieved successful outcomes in relevant disputes or litigations, etc.
Experience
2013-present Yoon & Yang LLC
Dongju Kwon is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC. His main practice areas include intellectual property rights (50%) and corporate-related litigations (50%).
Mr. Kwon built abundant first-hand experiences in fact-finding and application of legal principles in the process of handling various cases concerning intellectual properties including patents, trademarks, designs, and trade secrets and corporate-related civil and criminal litigations for more than 20 years as a chief judge and presiding judge. Such experiences enable him to accurately understand major issues that determine results of litigations, which in turn helps him develop logical arguments in consideration of perspectives of judges and prepare and submit relevant evidence. Based on such strengths, he is capable of winning litigations by properly defending the interest of clients.
Experience
2018-present Partner, Yoon & Yang LLC
2023-present Member, Researcher Rights Protection Committee under the Ministry of Science and ICT
2021-present Member, Industrial Property Rights Law Advisory Committee, Korean Intellectual Property Office
2021-present Director, Korean Arbitrators Association, Inc.
Jae-Choon Kim is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC. His main practice areas include real estate, construction, and handling of disputes, e.g. arbitrations and litigations, etc.
Mr. Kim has represented many construction companies in cases involving indirect costs, construction arbitration, cancellation of sanctions on inappropriate business entities, etc., and has handled various disputes regarding urban improvement projects, e.g. reconstruction and redevelopment, aggregate buildings management office and associations for residents of apartments, etc.
Experience
1999-present Yoon & Yang LLC
Kyu Chun Lee is an expert advisor at Yoon & Yang LLC. His main practice areas include digital forensics and compliance. Kyu Chun Lee began his career in data security as a senior researcher at the Korea Education Network then as a system security expert at SONIT Co., Ltd., focusing on intrusive attack analyses and security breach inspections. From 2010 to 2012, Mr. Lee was a full-time professor at the Korea Vocational College of Information & Technology. Thereafter, Mr. Lee began a career in the public sector as a senior officer at the Cyber Crime Investigation Team of the Jinju Police Station and an investigator at the Digital Forensics Team, Cyber Crime Investigation Division of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office.
Experience
2019-present Yoon & Yang LLC
Mae Wha Choi is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC. Her main practice area is antitrust & competition.
Mae Wha represented clients in major cartel matters in various industries, such as steel, cable, automobile parts, and paper manufacturing. She has also advised and acted in disputes related to the abuse of market dominance and unfair trade practices in the IT, liquor, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and insurance industries, as well as labeling/advertising regulations in the liquor, food, electronics, and medical equipments sectors. She is also experienced in advising and representing multinational clients in cross-border business combination approval, international cartel conduct, and unfair trade practices (including the Fair Transactions in Subcontracting Act, and the Fair Agency Transactions Act).
Experience
2012-present Yoon & Yang LLC
Sang Hoon Park is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC. His main practice areas include labor and administrative law.
Mr. Park held a series of important posts at various courts, including Presiding Judge of the Suwon District Court, Chief Judge of the Jeongeup Branch of the Jeonju District Court, Judge of the Seoul High Court and Judge of the Seoul Central District Court (dispatched to the Constitutional Court), and retired as Presiding Judge of the Seoul Administrative Court in 2007. Mr. Park is acclaimed for his involvement in a seminal case, chosen as the case of 2008 by Hangyeore 21, involving the recognition of an illegally dispatched worker's employment status. He is also well-known for his work regarding the prohibition of identifying a fetus's sex, for which he made arguments before the Constitutional Court and obtained the Court's recognition of unconstitutionality. He continues to show outstanding performance in labor and administrative law.
Experience
2007-present Yoon & Yang LLC
Sang Hyun Lee is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC. His main practice area is criminal law.
Prior to joining Yoon & Yang, Sang Hyun Lee served as a prosecutor at the Seongnam Branch of the Suwon District Public Prosecutor's Office. Mr. Lee advises on corporate management activities such as embezzlement and breach of trust and securities transactions of large financial companies and listed companies including violations of the Capital Markets Act. Mr. Lee also has experience conducting investigations and reporting on internal corporate matters such as corruption relating to officers and employees.
Experience
2007-present Yoon & Yang LLC
Sang Pil Lee is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC and his main practice areas include real estate and construction, litigation and arbitration, international transactions, insurance, maritime and shipping, and media.
Mr. Lee has extensive experience advising domestic and foreign construction companies, shipping companies, financial institutions, and public institutions on transactions, litigation, and arbitration relating to construction, international transactions, insurance, transportation, and maritime issues. He has been ranked as a Leading Individual by Chambers & Partners Asia-Pacific since 2018 and was awarded the 2019 Korea Legal Awards Arbitration Grand Prize.
Experience
2006-present Yoon & Yang LLC
Soo Hyeon Park is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC and his main practice areas include real estate, construction, litigations and arbitration, etc.
Mr. Park has successfully represented construction companies in litigations or arbitration regarding construction costs, other payments and damage compensation, etc. and has advised on various relevant issues such as rebuilding, redevelopment and trust, etc. He also provides consulting services and reviews contracts upon accurate interpretation of construction laws, e.g. Building Act, Housing Act, Framework Act on the Construction Industry, and Fair Transactions in Subcontracting Act, etc.
Experience
2009-present Yoon & Yang LLC
Young Kon Cho is a partner at Yoon & Yang. His main practice area is criminal law.
Young Kwan Choi is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC. His main practice areas include commercial law & management rights dispute, corporate criminal defense, corporate litigation and construction litigation.
Young Su Park is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC, and his main practice area is corporate litigation.
Young Sun Cho is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC, and his main practice areas include advisory service on foreign entity's domestic investment and M&A, foreign direct investment, and related to the healthcare industry including pharma companies.