Yulchon

Insurance, Corporate & Finance, Financial Regulation, Project Finance, Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions

Partner

Young Su Shin is a Head of Corporate & Finance Practice at Yulchon. His main practice areas are insurance, trust, finance and M&A. Mr. Shin has years of experience in providing legal advice on insurance and to insurance companies, trust, approvals and permits for financial institutions, and financial regulations (responses to investigations by the Sanctions Review Committee, Accounting Oversight Deliberation Committee and Capital Market Investigation Deliberation Committee), including advices to banks, securities companies, asset management companies, holding companies and other financial institutions. His finance expertise encompasses, structured finance, PF/real estate finance, acquisition finance, issuance of securities such as CB, BW and ABS and collective investment such as Fund, PEF and SPAC other financial affairs, and disclosure and substantive review upon companies, and IPO. Mr. Shin has extensive M&A experience including M&A between financial institutions, M&A of companies in workout programs and cross-border M&A. In particular, Mr. Shin has sufficient track records in providing legal advice on the entire area of insurance, including establishment of insurance companies and their branches and obtaining the relevant license, insurance and insurance products, insurance–linked securities, asset management, audit and sanctions, M&A, and overseas investment of insurance companies, reinsurance, trade insurance, guaranty insurance, tax issues related to insurance and insurance companies, antitrust issues of insurance companies, and claims for insurance proceeds or reinsurance.

• 2019-present Head of Corporate & Finance Practice, Yulchon LLC
• 2011-2018 Partner, Yulchon LLC
• 2023-present Member, Advisory Committee for Financial Supervision
• 2023-present Member, Council for Prevention of Insurance Dispute
• 2023-present Member, Consumer Rights Protection Committee of Samsung Life Insurance
• 2020-present Member, Consumer Rights Protection Committee of NH Property and Casualty Insurance
• 2017-present Advisory Member, Insurance Crime Prevention Study Forum
• 2015-present Member, Steering Committee of Korea Taxi Mutual Aid Association
• 2015-present Member, Insurance Dispute Prevention Council of Korea Life Insurance Association/General Insurance Association of Korea
• 2021-2024 Member, KOSDAQ Listing Review Committee, Korea Exchange
• 2018-2021 Member, KOSDAQ Disclosure Committee, Korea Exchange
• 2017-2021 Member, Financial Disputes Mediation Committee
• 2023-present Vice-Chairman, Korea Securities Law Association
• 2020-present Vice-Chairman, Korea Business Law Association
• 2020-present Director, Korean Academy of Financial Consumers
• 2019-present Director, Korea Trust Association
• 2018-2022 Director, Korea Financial Law Association
• 2015-present Director, Korean Insurance Law Association
• 2006-2011 Partner, Yoon & Yang LLC (formerly Yoon Yang Kim Shin & Yu)
• 2003-2005 Associate, Yoon & Yang LLC
• 1997-2003 Associate, Yoon & Partners

Korean, English

• 1997 Republic of Korea

• 2019  Financial CEO Course of Korea Financial Research Institute
• 2015  Insurance CEO Academy Program of Korea Insurance Research Institute
• 2009  Special Program of Low Carbon and Green Growth of National Strategy Institute
• 2004  Visiting Scholar, University of Washington School of Law
• 1997  Judicial Research and Training Institute, the Supreme Court of Korea
• 1993  Yonsei University College of Law, LL.B.

• 2024 Leading Lawyer, Insurance, asialaw
• 2024 Leading Lawyer, Banking, Project finance, IFLR 1000
• 2023-2024 Leading Individual, Insurance, Legal 500
• 2021-2024 Leading Lawyer, Insurance, Chambers AP
• 2023 Distinguished Practitioner, Insurance, asialaw (Edition 28)
• 2023 Distinguished Practitioner, Insurance, asialaw (Edition 27)
• 2020-2022 Distinguished Practitioner, Insurance, asialaw
• 2023 Leading Lawyer, Banking, Project Finance, IFLR 1000 (Edition 33)
• 2023 Leading Lawyer, Banking, Project Finance, IFLR 1000 (Edition 32)
• 2022 Leading Lawyer, Energy & Infrastructure, Banking, Project Finance, IFLR 1000 (Edition 31)
• 2017-2021 Leading Lawyer, Energy & Infrastructure, Banking, Project Finance, IFLR 1000
• 2018 Leading Lawyer, Insurance, Chambers AP
• 2017 Recognized Practitioner, Insurance, Chambers AP
• 2017 Lawyer of the Year 2016, Insurance, Legal Times
• 2016 Leading Lawyer, Energy & Infrastructure, IFLR 1000