Oh Hyun Kwon > Kim & Chang > Seoul, South Korea > Lawyer Profile
Kim & Chang Offices
39 SAJIK-RO 8-GIL
JONGNO-GU
SEOUL 03170
South Korea
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Oh Hyun Kwon
Work Department
Financial Regulation & Compliance; Corporate Governance & Shareholder Disputes; Mergers & Acquisitions; Securities; Capital Markets; Insolvency & Restructuring; Game, Resort & Entertainment; Private Equity; Shareholder Activism; Corporate Finance; Banking
Career
Oh Hyun Kwon is an attorney in the firm’s Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Securities Regulations and Capital Markets Practices.
Since joining the firm in 2002, Mr. Kwon has advised public and private companies and financial institutions in a wide range of transactions, disputes and litigations. His practice focuses primarily on corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investment and securities regulation.
Mr. Kwon graduated from the College of Law at Seoul National University in 1997, served as judge advocate in the Korean Navy, and joined Kim & Chang in 2002. He received his LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 2008 and worked at the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP as international lawyer before returning to the firm.
Languages
Korean and English
Memberships
Admitted to bar, Korea, 1999
Education
New York University School of Law (LL.M., 2008)
Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (1999)
College of Law, Seoul National University (1997)
Lawyer Rankings
South Korea > Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms
Kim & Chang is praised for combining ‘reliable services on the financial regulatory front’, with a fintech team housing ‘more lawyers and other professionals with science or engineering backgrounds than any other law firm’s team’. Bumkyu Sung is a key contact for internal investigations of financial institutions conducting business in Korea. Foreign attorney Ik Hwan Cho and Oh Hyun Kwon are both equipped to advise on securities regulation, while fintech specialist Joon Young Kim is well versed in legal issues relating to blockchain and cloud computing. IT compliance specialist Jung Min Lee is also recommended. Kye Sung Chung and Sang Hwan Lee jointly lead the practice.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition: local firms
- Banking and finance: local firms
- Capital markets: local firms
- Corporate and M&A: local firms
- Dispute resolution: local firms
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms
- Insurance: local firms
- Intellectual property: local firms
- International arbitration
- Labour and employment: local firms
- Projects and energy: local firms
- Real estate: local firms
- Regulatory: compliance and investigations: local firms
- Shipping: local firms
- Tax: local firms
- TMT: local firms