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Yulchon adds Kim & Chang IP, antitrust lawyer

BY Nimitt Dixit |

South Korean Big Six firm Yulchon has continued its aggressive expansion with the addition of antitrust and intellectual property expert Dave Koo, who becomes the firm’s tenth partner hire in 2024. Koo joins from Kim & Chang, where he was a senior foreign attorney.
Yulchon continues 2024 hiring spree with IP pro

BY Nimitt Dixit |

South Korean Big Six firm Yulchon has continued its hot partner hiring streak in 2024 with the addition of former Lee & Ko media and entertainment practice head Chunghwan Choi to its Seoul-based intellectual property and technology practice.
Yulchon taps Yoon & Yang for four-partner M&A team

BY Nimitt Dixit |

South Korean Big Six firm Yulchon has continued its recent expansion by poaching four seasoned M&A partners from Yoon & Yang. The quartet includes Sung-Jin Kim, the former head of the M&A practice at Yoon & Yang, along with Kayoung Kim, Hyerim Kang, and Junghwan Lee.
Rise of Korean entertainment industry drives Yulchon IP expansion

BY Nimitt Dixit |

Yulchon has expanded its intellectual property capabilities with the addition of JongCheol Lee and Mun Hui Kim as partners, in response to “Korea's rising IP disputes and the exponential growth of the entertainment sector fuelled by K-content.”
Yulchon continues disputes hiring spree with AMT practice head

BY Nimitt Dixit |

International arbitration veteran David MacArthur is moving from Tokyo to Seoul, joining the partnership at South Korean Big Six firm Yulchon as co-leader of the disputes practice. His move comes at a time when Yulchon has been aggressively bulking up its disputes offering.
Yulchon expands disputes offering by adding another former prosecutor

BY Mari Iwata |

Seoul-headquartered law firm Yulchon has welcomed Sang Mook Kang, a former senior prosecutor with the Busan District Prosecutor’s Office, as a partner.
Former Seoul prosecutors join Korea’s Yulchon as partners

BY Nimitt Dixit |

Korean law firm Yulchon has added two former prosecutors from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office (SCDPO), Wook Jin Rha and Woo Young Choe, as partners in its dispute resolution practice.
Report: Kim & Chang, Yulchon involved in Anbang-Mirae litigation

BY Aparna Sai |

Kim & Chang and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher are representing China’s Anbang Insurance Group in a lawsuit before the Delaware Chancery Court over a terminated $5.8 billion deal to sell 15 U.S. luxury hotels to South Korea’s Mirae Asset Global Investments, according to a report in the Korea Times.
ALB Conversations: Hee Woong Yoon, joint managing partner, Yulchon

BY Aparna Sai |

Hee Woong Yoon, joint managing partner of Korea's Yulchon, talks about weathering COVID-19, how the pandemic is accelerated a shift in client requirements, and the kind of internal culture he is looking to foster within the firm.
Korea: OMM litigator joins Yulchon as international disputes co-head

BY Aparna Sai |

Seoul -headquartered Yulchon has recruited YongSang Kim to co-head its international dispute resolution team from O’Melveny & Myers, where he was that firm’s office co-representative in the Korean capital.