Korean Big Six law firm Yoon & Yang has landed construction, engineering and public procurement expert Jae Woo Jeon (L) and labour specialist Sam Park as partners. Both recently held senior in-house roles: Jeon was at Daewoo Engineering & Construction, while Park was at Samsung Electronics.
With these additions, Yoon & Yang aims to “transcend traditional legal advisory roles to become a more comprehensive and specialised strategic business partner for its clients,” said Myung Soo Lee, a senior managing partner of Yoon & Yang, in a statement.
Jeon is Yoon & Yang’s second senior construction lawyer hire in a matter of months, with the firm welcoming back construction and arbitration lawyer Joseph Lee from Pinsent Masons in September. Jeon worked for Daewoo Engineering from 2009 to 2023, holding roles such as head of legal affairs, head of the compliance support Office and head of domestic legal affairs Office. In these positions, he oversaw legal issues regardingo real estate development, contracts, construction, and general corporate.
Park joined Yoon & Yang after over a dozen years at Samsung Electronics. At the electronics conglomerate, he was most recently the Head of Legal at Samsung Electronics Service, Samsung Electronics’ affiliate, supervising corporate legal affairs, including labour commission cases, wrongful dismissal claims, industrial accident claims, labour audits and labour-management relations. Previously, Park was at South Korea’s National Labour Relations Commission and the Ministry of Employment.
With these additions, Yoon & Yang now has 209 partners in total.
