Mr Yong Pyo Yeom > Yulchon > Seoul, South Korea > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Yong Pyo Yeom
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)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.
Lawyer Rankings
- Dispute resolution: local firms South Korea
- Leading individuals South Korea > Dispute resolution: local firms
- Regulatory: compliance and investigations: local firms South Korea
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition: local firms
- Dispute resolution: local firms
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms
- Tax: local firms
- TMT: local firms
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: local firms
- Capital markets: local firms
- Corporate and M&A: local firms
- Insurance: local firms
- Intellectual property: local firms
- Labour and employment: local firms
- Real estate: local firms
- Regulatory: compliance and investigations: local firms
- International arbitration
- Projects and energy: local firms
- Shipping: local firms