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Mr Yong Pyo Yeom

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+82 2 528 5224 ypyeom@yulchon.com View profile

Work Department

Dispute Resolution

Position

Partner, Co-head of Dispute Resolution Practice

Career

Yong Pyo Yeom is a partner at Yulchon where his practice area focuses on litigation and arbitration. He joined Yulchon as an associate in 1998 and was made a partner in 2007. Mr. Yeom’s experience also includes an associate position at Shin & Kim. Additionally, he held a public prosecutor position at the Changwon District Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office.

  • 2005-present Partner, Yulchon LLC
  • 2021-present  Outside Director, KG Chemical
  • 2021-present  Member, National Election Survey Deliberation Commission
  • 2021-present  Member, Sports Fair Commission of Korean Sport & Olympic Committee
  • 2021-present  Member, KBO Reward and Punishment Committee
  • 2019-present  Arbitrator, The Korean Commercial Arbitration Board
  • 2019-2021  Member of the Sentencing Commission, Supreme Court
  • 2019-2021  Vice President, Korean Bar Association
  • 2017-2019  Vice Chairman and Acting Chairman, Seoul Bar Association
  • 2017-2019  Civil Mediation Committee Member, Seoul Central District Court
  • 2015-2017  Director of International Affairs & Member Director, Seoul Bar Association
  • 2013-2018  Adjunct professor, Seoul National University School of Law
  • 2012-2019  Early Mediator, Seoul Bar Association
  • 2011-2013  Director, Korean Bar Association
  • 2007-2008  Media Committee Member, SK Communications Co., Ltd.
  • 2004-2005  Prosecutor, Suwon District Prosecutors Office
  • 2002-2004  Prosecutor, Changwon District Prosecutors Office
  • 2001-2002  Shin & Kim
  • 1999-2001  Yulchon LLC

Languages

Korean, English

Education

  • 1996 Seoul National University, LL.B.
  • 2003 Seoul National University, Graduate School(Master Course)
  • 2009 University of California Berkeley, LL.M.
  • 1999 Judicial Research and Training Institute, the Supreme Court of Korea

Personal

  • 2022-2023  Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution, Legal 500
  • 2022  Korea’s Top 100 Lawyers, Asia Business Law Journal
  • 2021-2022  Korea Super 30 Lawyers, Asian Legal Business
  • 2020-2023  Litigation Star, BENCHMARK LITIGATION AP
  • 2020  Leading Lawyer, Legal Times
  • 2019-2023  Leading Lawyer, Dispute Resolution: Litigation, Chambers AP
  • 2019  Dispute Resolution Star, BENCHMARK LITIGATION AP
  • 2019  Lawyer of the Year, Legal Times
  • 2017  Commended External Counsel of the Year, In-House Community, ASIAN-MENA COUNSEL

Lawyer Rankings

South Korea > Dispute resolution: local firms

(Leading individuals)

Yong Pyo Yeom – Yulchon

Praised as ‘one of the top firms in Korea’, Yulchon houses an ‘outstanding’ practice, handling a broad range of corporate and financial cases, while branching out into cryptocurrency and blockchain-related disputes. The team has an established reputation, representing major Korean conglomerates in domestic disputes and working on the Korean exchange, co-led by post-M&A arbitration specialist Il Bong Moon. Other practice head Yong Pyo Yeom handles debt and equity matters, and advises on contentious construction, tax and real estate disputes. Elsewhere, Sy Nae Kim is an esteemed advocate in public and private international disputes, particularly in the trade and logistics sectors, while Ik Hyun Kim handles trust, white-collar crime and product liability cases. The team has been further boosted with the arrival of arbitration expert David MacArthur.

South Korea > Regulatory: compliance and investigations: local firms

The continuously expanding criminal defence team at Yulchon houses a deep bench of former regulatory specialists and prosecutors, handling the full depth and breadth of compliance and investigation work. Managing partner Dong Ryul Choi co-heads the practice alongside Il Bong Moon and Yong Pyo Yeom. Former prosecutor Hak Seok Kim handles the full range of corporate and white-collar crimes, and financial regulation and prosecution. Seung Hyun Lee, who is also a former prosecutor, specialises in environmental criminal investigations and trials.

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