Big Six Korean law firm Yoon & Yang has hired Seung-Kook Synn and Sung Uk Park as partners in Seoul from conglomerate SK Group and Kim & Chang, respectively.

At SK Group, Synn was general counsel, overseeing global legal affairs including M&A, antitrust, intellectual property and litigation.

Meanwhile, Park was a senior foreign attorney at Kim & Chang, focusing on inbound and outbound M&A, private equity, fund formation and disputes and investigations relating to foreign direct investments involving multinational corporations.

The firm also hired M&A lawyer S. Janet Lee as a senior associate from FLEXRE Group. 

The trio join some months after Yoon & Yang hired a group of banking and finance partners from the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), Korea’s integrated financial regulator.

 

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