Yulchon

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 720 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.

Furthermore, as Korea’s leading provider of pro bono legal services, Yulchon takes on matters in various areas of public interest law together with Onyul, a public interest affiliate Yulchon established in 2014. Our pro bono efforts include works related to non-profit organizations, community development, charitable fund-raising, tax litigation support, refugee assistance, and adult guardianship.

• Banking
• Capital markets: Debt
• Capital markets: Derivatives
• Capital markets: Equity
• Competition
• Covered bonds 
• Financial restructuring
• Financial services regulatory
• Investment funds
• M&A
• Private equity
• Private equity funds 
• Project development
• Project finance
• Real estate finance
• Real estate funds
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Securitisation
• Structured finance/securitisation

Corporate & Finance
Young Su Shin 
ysshin@yulchon.com

Jae Hyun Park
jpark@yulchon.com

Antitrust/Competition
Jeong Keun Yun
jkyun@yulchon.com

Tax
Young Joon Chun
yjchun@yulchon.com

Kun Jai Kim
kjkim@yulchon.com

Real Estate & Construction
Nam Ho Kim
nhkim@yulchon.com

Dispute Resolution
Jae Keun Lee
jaklee@yulchon.com

Jung Han Oh
jhoh@yulchon.com

Intellectual Property & Technology
Doil Son
dison@yulchon.com

Labor & Employment
Sang Wook Cho
swcho@yulchon.com

Recent transactional highlights:

• SK On Co., Ltd.’s establishment, with Hyundai Motor Group, of a $5 billion EV battery manufacturing joint venture in the US
• Comprehensive legal consultation for the merger of Jaguar and GLAAM and DeSPAC merger structure valued at $1.83 billion
• Successfully advised Microsoft’s $70 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard

• Automotive
• Aviation
• Banking
• Construction and materials
• Consumer goods and services 
• Energy
• Financial services
• Food and beverages 
• Healthcare
• Insurance
• Investment management
• Media
• Oil and gas
• Pharm and life sciences
• Real estate
• Shipping
• Tech and telecoms
• Tourism 
• Transport 
• Utilities

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