Ranked in 1 Practice Areas
2

Band 2

Dispute Resolution: Litigation

South Korea

7 Years Ranked

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About

Provided by Seung Ryong Yoo

Asia-Pacific

Practice Areas

Commercial ∙ Management Rights Disputes

Corporate Criminal Defense

Compliance

Financial ∙ Capital Market Disputes

Litigation ∙ Arbitration

Career

Seung Ryong Yoo is a managing partner at Yoon & Yang LLC. His main practice areas include corporate and commercial law, criminal law, and administrative law.

Seung Ryong Yoo has successfully represented clients in white-collar crime cases such as large-scale financial and construction disputes, breach of trust, and embezzlement against companies and business owners. In the case of financial disputes, Mr. Yoo represented clients in a civil case in connection with the liability for asset-backed loans between Bank and other financial institutions and a case concerning credit enhancement in PF loans. In both cases, Mr. Yoo convinced the appeals court to overturn the decision of the trial court for all claims in favor of his clients. In the case of construction disputes, Mr. Yoo successfully represented clients in a case involving shared responsibility arising from a joint supply and demand relationship among construction companies and a case concerning large-scale development projects through foreign joint ventures.

Professional Memberships

Admitted to bar, Korea (1993)

Publications

“Denial of a Wrongful Calculation and Distribution of Profits under the Corporate Income Act,” Cheong Yeon Non Chong (7th Ed.), Judicial Research & Training Institute in Commemoration of Retirement of President Gook Soo Park of Judicial Research & Training Institute, 2010

“Legal Reasoning and the Rule of Logics & the Rule of Thumb,” Judge’s Decision Making: Theories and Practices, p. 219-304, Judicial Development Foundation, 2010

“The Right of Life and Self-determination and Doctors’ Obligation of Treatment,” Medical Law, Vol.9, No.2 (Dec. 2008), Judicial and Public Administration Society of Korea, 2008

“Determination of Governing Law in the Marriage with a Foreigner,” Trial Materials, Vol. 101, December 2003, Issues of Family Court Cases (Vol. 1), Ministry of Court Administration, 2003

“Review of Issues of Defamation Cases at the Media Division of the Seoul Southern Court,” December 2012

Experience

2014-present: Yoon & Yang LLC

2015-present: Advisor on Tax Law, Seoul Regional National Tax Service

2015-present: Arbitrator, Korean Commercial Arbitration Board

2012-14: Member, Committee for Publication of Compendium of Court Practices (Civil Proceedings)

2012-14: Presiding Judge, Seoul Southern District Court

2011: Adjunct Professor, Yonsei University Law School

2009-12: Professor, Judicial Research & Training Institute (Civil Proceedings, Execution, Preservation, Tax)

2008-09: Presiding Judge, Gwangju District Court (Warrants)

2006-08: Judge, Seoul High Court (Medicine, Administration)

2006: Judicial Policy Judge, Ministry of Court Administration

2004-06: Judicial Policy Researcher, Ministry of Court Administration

2003-04: Judge, Seoul Family Court

2001-02: Visiting Scholar, Virginia Law School

2000-03: Judge, Seoul Central District Court

1997-00: Judge, Cheon Branch, Daejeon District Court

1995-97: Judge, Seoul District Court

1993-95: Judge, Southern Branch, Seoul District Court

Languages Spoken

Korean and English

Clients

Korean Air

Education

Judicial Research and Training Institute

1993

Seoul National University, College of Law

LL.B.

1989

Awards

Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: Litigation

Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific

2023

Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: Litigation

Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific

2022

Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: Litigation

Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific

2021

Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: Litigation

Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific

2020

Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: Litigation

Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific

2019

Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: Litigation

Chambers and Partners Global

2023

Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: Litigation

Chambers and Partners Global

2022

Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: Litigation

Chambers and Partners Global

2021

Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution; Regulatory: Compliance and Investigations

Legal 500 Asia-Pacific

2023

Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution; Regulatory: Compliance and Investigations

Legal 500 Asia-Pacific

2022

Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution; Regulatory: Compliance and Investigations

Legal 500 Asia-Pacific

2021

Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution; Regulatory: Compliance and Investigations

Legal 500 Asia-Pacific

2020

Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution; Regulatory: Compliance and Investigations

Legal 500 Asia-Pacific

2019

Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: White-Collar Crime

Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific

2020

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