Yoon & Yang LLC, Corporate/M&A | Chambers Asia-Pacific Profile

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Industry sector expertise

Yoon & Yang has continued to achieve outstanding results in the Firm’s traditional strength areas of transactions relating to technology, aviation, energy, and heavy and chemical industries. Yoon & Yang has also proven that the Firm possesses expertise that is in line with recent M&A trends by successfully closing several transactions in emerging fields such as ESG management and platform businesses.

Key types of work

Yoon & Yang’s M&A Practice Group provides various legal services relating to mergers and acquisitions, sales of shares, and investments. The M&A Practice Group provides professional and high-quality legal services by creating a task-force team tailored to the needs of each client, composed of not just M&A-focused attorneys, but also with attorneys specializing in the areas of finance, securities, antitrust, tax, labor, environment, intellectual property, foreign investment, foreign exchange, and other relevant areas pertaining to each transaction. The Group provides a full spectrum of legal services necessary for M&A deals from transaction structuring, due diligence, drafting and negotiating agreements, and finally to closing the deals.

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Corporate/M&A - South Korea

Band 3

What the team is known for

The growing corporate team at Yoon & Yang often advises on M&A deals related to corporate restructuring and international investments and is active on private equity-backed transactions. It is well positioned to advise on acquisition finance and capital markets matters. The team is also able to offer expert advice on antitrust and tax issues arising out of transactions. It acts for a number of large Korean companies, including SK E&S, Hanjin KAL and Doosan Enerbility.

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Work Highlights

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Yoon & Yang advised Lee Soo-man, SM Entertainment's founder, in the sale of his 14.8% old shares to Hybe.

Strengths

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"Even with non-typical transactions, they are adept at quickly and accurately recognising what our company wants and at coming up with ideas that will help us."