Mr. Yun is one of Yulchon’s founding partners, and he serves as the Firm’s Honorary Managing Partner. He also practices primarily in the areas of corporate law (with an emphasis on M&A), antitrust law, taxation, and governmental relations. Mr. Yun’s legal acumen is internationally recognized. He is perennially selected as a leading lawyer by publications such as Chambers Global, International Financial Law Review, Global Competition Review, PLC Cross-Border Handbook, and AsiaLaw. Mr. Yun is the only Korean attorney recognized by the editors of Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides as an expert in three separate fields: competition, taxation, and M&A. Mr. Yun also received the Prime Minister’s Award for Antitrust Administration and the Deputy Prime Minister’s Award for Tax Administration. He has been listed in the International Who’s Who of Professionals since 2005. Mr. Yun earned his exceptional reputation by successfully representing numerous major corporations in many important deals and projects. These include matters involving, for example, Goldman Sachs, the Carlyle Group, Citigroup, GE, AMD, LVMH, RealNetworks, Samsung Electronics, Samsung Life Insurance, LG.Philips LCD, SK Telecom, SK Corporation, Hyundai Motors, Hyundai Capital, Hyundai Merchant Marine, Lotte Shopping, Daum Communications, and Bridgestone Corporation, among others. Mr. Yun has also served as an outside legal advisor to various government agencies such as the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy and the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), for whom he also served as a member of the Competition Policy Advisory Board and the Financial Industry Development Deliberation Committee. In addition, he has been a member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Korean Broadcasting Commission and he was a Technical Advisor for the Tax Policy Review Council for the Ministry of Finance and Economy.
