Yoon & Yang Elects New Managing Partners in Seoul

January 25, 2024
Yoon & Yang effected a leadership change in its Seoul office, effective January 1, 2024. The firm elected Myung Soo Lee as Senior Managing Partner in its Seoul office, and named two Managing Partners, Young Ho Kang and Jin Guk Shi, who will oversee the firm’s day-to-day operations and lead the firm as members of the management committee for the next three years. Myung Soo Lee was unanimously elected by the equity partners in October 2023. He had served as one of the three managing partners for six years since 2017, and succeeds Jinsu Jeong, who served as Senior Managing Partner since 2018. Under Myung Soo Lee’s guidance, the firm has become the primary legal advisor for many conglomerates and major domestic financial institutions. He also spearheaded key recruitment efforts, notably the hires of JongKu Choi, former chairman of the Financial Supervisory Commission; Jong-moon Choi, former Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs; Sae Chun Park, senior deputy governor for the Financial Supervisory Service; and Dong Shin Lee, former commissioner of the regional office of the National Tax Service in Busan. Young Ho Kang, who also started as a managing partner, began his career at Kim, Shin & Yu in 2001, and has continued his tenure as a Yoon & Yang attorney since 2006 when Kim, Shin & Yu merged with Yoon & Yang. As an attorney specializing in M&A, finance and capital markets, he has served as head of the Banking & Finance Practice Group, as well as of the Corporate Advisory Group. Jin Guk Shi joined Yoon & Yang in 2020 after having served as a judge in various courts...

K&L Gates Appoints Tyler Won as Seoul Office Managing Partner

April 17, 2023
K&L Gates has appointed Tyler Hong Shik Won as managing partner of the firm’s Seoul office, effective April 1, 2023. Won counsels both Korean and international clients on intellectual property-related issues, including those involving trade secret compliance and litigation, as well as international trade and antitrust issues. He has also advised on renewable energy projects, M&A, project finance, employment, litigation and anti-corruption related issues. Won succeeds Seoul partner Eric Yoon as the office’s chief legal representative, a role in which Yoon, who was instrumental in launching the office in 2012, has served ever since. He will continue as a partner with the firm in both Seoul and New York. The firm’s Seoul office, in close cooperation with lawyers in the firm’s other offices and local Korean counsel firms, assists domestic clients with accessing foreign markets and resolving other legal issues overseas. The firm’s wider Korea practice, comprising lawyers in Seoul as well as overseas, assists Korean companies doing business in the US, the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and beyond with their diverse contentious and non-contentious legal needs. “I am honored to be leading the Seoul office in our continued efforts for global integration and the highest quality client service,” Won said. “In this critical time of rapid change, when many Korean companies are quickly expanding to many different countries, we are dedicated to supporting our clients’ smooth transitions abroad. As managing partner of our Seoul office, I am committed to positioning our firm to be the leading provider of insightful, practical solutions for our clients in the Korean market and beyond.” “We congratulate Tyler as he embarks in this new...