Yulchon

Yulchon’s name is formed from two Chinese characters that mean, “a community of legal experts.” With more than 570 lawyers and specialists across seven practice groups and 12 industry teams, and with six overseas offices, Yulchon’s experienced professionals work together in a culture of excellence, innovation and collaboration to address the challenges our clients face. Since its founding in 1997, Yulchon has become the fastest-growing among Korea’s top law firms. Our perspective is international, and our reach is global. At Yulchon, we put the needs of our clients first, and we are proud that our success is measured by the success and satisfaction of our clients.

• Banking and finance
• Capital markets
• Competition/Antitrust
• Construction/Real Estate
• Corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Regulatory
• Intellectual property
• Labour and employment
• Investment funds
• Private equity
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Tax
• TMT

Corporate & Finance
Young Su SHIN
ysshin@yulchon.com
Sung Wook EUN
sweun@yulchon.com

Yulchon M&A team successfully advised F&F Co., Ltd. in its strategic investment through Centroid PE in the acquisition of 19th Holdings Cooperatief U.A. holding TaylorMade Golf Co., Inc.

Antitrust/Competition
Sung Bom PARK
sbpark@yulchon.com

Represented Woowa Brothers, a Korean start-up online food delivery platform company, in its $4 billion acquisition by Germany’s Delivery Hero before the KFTC as the seller’s Korean merger control counsel.

Tax
Dong Soo KIM
dskim@yulchon.com

Tax advisory services in connection with IGIS Asset Management’s acquisition of an Amazon logistics center located in New Mexico through a real estate fund 

Real Estate & Construction
Ju Bong PARK
jbpark@yulchon.com

Successfully represented HYUNDAI E&C in its lawsuit against the Korea Rural Community Corporation(KRC)

Dispute Resolution
Il Bong MOON
ibmoon@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

Jeong Yeol CHOE
jychoe@yulchon.com
Doil SON
dison@yulchon.com

Yulchon successfully defended a patent relating to water purification technology owned by Chungho Nais in a patent invalidation proceeding filed by its competitor Coway from the KIPTAB all the way to the Korean Supreme Court.

Labour & Employment
Sang Wook CHO
swcho@yulchon.com

Successfully representing SK Hynix in litigation in which employees are seeking to characterize profit-sharing bonuses as “wages” which must be included in the base rate for statutory severance benefits and other entitlements.

• Aviation and shipping
• Banking and financial services
• Consumer goods and services
• Energy
• Industrials and manufacturing
• Infrastructure
• Insurance
• Materials
• Media and entertainment
• Oil and gas
• Pharmaceuticals and life sciences
• Real estate
• Technology and telecommunications

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