Jung-Won Hyun > 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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Jung-Won Hyun
Work Department
Antitrust & Competition; Corporate Governance & Shareholder Disputes; Mergers & Acquisitions; Foreign Direct Investment; Private Equity
Career
Jung-Won Hyun’s practice areas include the defense of antitrust investigations, merger notifications, and other cross-border corporate transactions. Since joining the firm in 2000, she continues to be extensively involved in providing corporate and antitrust counseling to both foreign and domestic firms in Korea.
Ms. Hyun has been the leading counsel in major merger control cases involving remedies issued by the KFTC, with her professional work and expertise widely recognized: she received the “Best in Competition and Antitrust” award at Euromoney’s Asia Women in Business Law Awards in 2017 and was recently recognized by Who’s Who Legal as one of the Leading Competition Lawyers in Korea (2019-2023), by Euromoney’s Asialaw as one of the Leading Lawyers, Competition/Antitrust (2022-2023) and by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific as one of the Next Generation Partners, Competition/Antitrust (2023).
Ms. Hyun studied in the Mass Communications Department at Seoul National University for two years before continuing in her education at Columbia College where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1993. She graduated from the School of Law at Columbia University in 1997, where she served as a note editor in the Asian Law Journal. Ms. Hyun is admitted to the bar in the State of New York.
Ms. Hyun speaks Korean, English and Japanese.
Languages
Korean, English and Japanese
Memberships
Admitted to bar, New York, 1998
Education
School of Law, Columbia University (J.D., 1997)
Columbia College, Columbia University (B.A., Political Science, 1993)
Seoul National University (1989-1990)
Lawyer Rankings
South Korea > Antitrust and competition: local firms
(Leading individuals)Domestic and international clients from industries such as ICT, medical and pharmaceutical, automotive and aviation trust the sizeable team at Kim & Chang for assistance with issues such as merger control, international cartel and abuse of market dominance. International cartel cases and foreign-to-foreign mergers is another area of longstanding strength. Youngjin Jung co-heads the practice; his expertise and the firm’s reach has recently been demonstrated by the key role Jung has played coordinating the global merger filing in several jurisdictions for Korean Air’s acquisition of Asiana Airlines. Gene-Oh (Gene) Kim completes the leadership team and counts illegal collusion, abuse of market dominance and unfair trade practices as core areas of expertise. Foreign attorneys Brian Tae-Hyun Chung and Jung-Won Hyun are key contacts for merger filings for inbound and outbound M&A transactions and merger control cases involving remedies issued by the KFTC, respectively. Representing domestic and online platforms in KFTC investigations stands out as an area of recent activity for Kyung Min Koh. Min-Ho Lee is praised for his ‘good knowledge of fair trade’. Hemi Lee is a further name to note.
Lawyer Rankings
- Antitrust and competition: local firms South Korea
- Leading individuals South Korea > Antitrust and competition: local firms
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