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 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.

• 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

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
• 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

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