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Kyung Taek Jung

+82 2 3703 1101 ktjung@kimchang.com View profile

Work Department

Antitrust & Competition; Mergers & Acquisitions; Corporation Law; Singapore

Career

K.T. Jung is a senior partner at Kim & Chang. Mr. Jung also serves as the Chair of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice and Antitrust & Competition Practice.

Mr. Jung practices in a wide range of areas of corporate law with a focus on mergers and acquisitions and antitrust/competition law. He has extensive experience in the corporate aspects of domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, including corporate restructurings, private equity transactions and joint venture transactions. His expertise in antitrust/competition law spans over 40 years and involves many of the most prominent antitrust/competition law cases in Korea over those years. Because of his knowledge and experience in such cases, Mr. Jung is highly regarded by clients and peers and is regularly sought out by the Korean Fair Trade Commission to advise on policy matters. He also advises clients in IT, pharmaceutical, energy and automobile industries.

He is the recipient of numerous notable awards and citations for distinguished service to clients. He has consistently been named as a leading lawyer in antitrust/competition, M&A and corporate law by many highly respected professional publications including Chambers and Partners, Euromoney and The Legal 500.

Mr. Jung received his LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 1986 and his LL.B. from College of Law, Seoul National University in 1974. He attended Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea in 1977. He is admitted to the Korean bar.

Languages

Korean and English

Memberships

Admitted to bar, Korea, 1977

Education

Harvard Law School (LL.M., 1986)
Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (1977)
College of Law, Seoul National University (LL.B., 1974)