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Yulchon is a full-service law firm headquartered in Seoul, Korea with a broad client base comprised of major domestic and foreign companies. With commitment, innovation, and excellence as our core values, we provide most innovative and cost-effective solutions to our clients, addressing their needs in various areas including tax, antitrust, corporate/finance, labor/employment, data security, and internal investigations.
Our pioneering leadership is recognized by several prestigious award-wins, e.g. the National Law Firm of the Year by Chambers & Partners in 2017 and the Most Innovative Korean Law Firm by the Financial Times in 2015 and 2016.
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TEL : +82-2-528-5836 ㅣ E-mail : dison@yulchon.com
Jai Wook Lee, Senior Foreign Counsel
TEL : +82-2-528-5864 ㅣ E-mail : jailee@yulchon.com
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Major Services
Tax
With over 90 tax experts including tax lawyers, certified public accountants, tax accountants, customs attorneys, and transfer pricing experts, our Tax Group provides the best and most comprehensive legal services in tax field including tax planning, investigations, and litigation.
Our Tax Group is recognized for its forward-thinking approach on tax matters. The Group devises proactive risk management solutions for clients, provides expert opinions to tax authorities on tax legislations, and studies the impact of the fourth industrial revolution on tax matters.
Antitrust
Our antitrust practice has been recognized worldwide for its expertise in representing clients in various high-profile cases and for being at the best protecting and advancing the interests of our clients. Our comprehensive practice includes providing advice at the business planning phase, responding to investigations by the Korea Fair Trade Commission, to administrative, civil and criminal proceedings to successfully resolve legal issues under the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act, and providing seamless coordination with co-counsel in multi-jurisdictional cartel investigations and merger control matters.
We are the first Korean law firm to be ranked “elite” – the highest ranking – by the world-renowned competition journal, the Global Competition Review, and our antitrust practice continues to receive top rankings by various global authorities.
Corporate & Finance
Our corporate & finance practice offers comprehensive advisory services in various fields including banking, finance, M&A, capital markets, restructuring/insolvency, international trade, and project finance.
Based on in-depth analysis of client’s needs and close collaboration with our tax, antitrust, and labor experts, our corporate & finance practice provides creative deal structures and cross-practice insights. Our corporate/M&A practice is ranked number one by both Chambers & Partners and Legal 500.
Labor & Employment/Data Security/Internal Investigations
We advise across the full spectrum of labor and employment issues, including advisory and transactional, contentious and non-contentious. This includes issues from workforce reduction, collective labor relations, administrative proceedings/litigations. The labor and employment team has highly experienced employment lawyers and certified labor attorneys. In addition, Yulchon has a strong data privacy and protection team (DPP). DPP team handles data privacy, compliance, internal investigations, and crisis management. DPP team consists of data privacy lawyers, forensic experts, and IT consultants.
We offer bespoke, state-of-the-art solutions to complex employment, data security, and compliance issues. This area is of particular interest as more clients are expected to face these problems in today’s information economy.