Tae Yong Seo
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025
Band 1 : Capital Markets
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About
Provided by Tae Yong Seo
Practice Areas
Mr. Tae-Yong Seo is a partner at Shin & Kim. Mr. Seo’s main areas of practice include international/domestic securities offerings, PEF consulting, corporate restructuring, investigation on unfair trading of capital market, accounting supervision and general corporate legal affairs. Mr. Seo also worked as a foreign associate in the Hong Kong office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and experienced capital market transactions.
Career
Partner, Shin & Kim; Member, Postal service Management Evaluation Committee, Korea Post (2023-Present); Member, Examination Committee for Listing on KOSDAQ Market, Korea Exchange (2020-2022); Legal Advisor, Korea Exchange (2019-Present); Legal Advisor, Credit Finance Association (2017-Present); Member, Alternative Investment Committee, Government Employees Pension Service (2017-2019); Member, Risk Management Committee of the Mutual Benefit System for Small and Micro Business Owners, Korea Federation of SMEs (2015-2018); Member, Derivatives Market Development Committee, Korea Exchange (2015-2017); Member, Listing Committee of KOSDAQ Market, Korea Exchange (2012-2014); Foreign Associate, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Hong Kong (2007-2008).
Professional Memberships
Korean Bar.
Publications
Korea chapter in Capital Markets, The Legal500 Country Comparative Guides, 2023 (Co-authored); Korea chapter in The Private Equity Review Part I, Fundraising, Law Business Research, 2019, 2022 (Co-authored).
Education
University of Southern California Law School
LL.M.
2006 - 2007
Seoul National University College of Social Science
B.A.
1990 - 1997
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Seo Tae Yong focuses his practice on equity capital markets and has extensive experience assisting clients with public offerings on KOSPI and KOSDAQ, including complex and novel listings and capital raise. He is well equipped to act for both issuers and underwriters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"We highly appreciate his dedication and faithfulness to our company."
"He is one of the top experts in capital markets, having advised the most prominent financial institution in Korea. He is the first choice when complex legal issues happen."
"He is an expert of IPO and PEF. We are thoroughly impressed with his extensive knowledge of legal issues in this area."
"We highly appreciate his dedication and faithfulness to our company."
"He is one of the top experts in capital markets, having advised the most prominent financial institution in Korea. He is the first choice when complex legal issues happen."
"He is an expert of IPO and PEF. We are thoroughly impressed with his extensive knowledge of legal issues in this area."