Kim & Chang

Metaverse, Blockchain & Digital Assets; Financial Regulation & Compliance; Mergers & Acquisitions; Fintech; Corporate Governance & Shareholder Disputes; Privacy & Data Security; ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance)

Sung Yun Kang is an attorney at Kim & Chang whose practice focuses on transactional matters, including financial regulations, compliance and licensing. She especially concentrates her transactional practice on rapidly evolving areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), fintech, responsible business, IT, digital assets, security token offering (STO), fractional investment, sandbox, foreign exchange (F/X), anti-money laundering (AML), and privacy and information protection.

Ms. Kang has extensive experience in M&As, particularly regarding financial institutions, fintech and blockchain companies, foreign direct investment, overseas investment, joint venture investment and corporate governance and shareholder disputes.

She advises across a wide range of clients including domestic and overseas financial corporations as well as e-business, gaming, entertainment, digital finance, IT, start-up, fintech and virtual asset or NFT platform companies.

Korean and English

Admitted to bar, Korea, 2014; New York, 2020

University of Chicago Law School (LL.M., 2019)

Seoul National University School of Law (J.D., 2014)

Korea University (B.A., Business Administration, 2011)