Yulchon Nabs O'Melveny & Myers Counsel in Seoul
U.S.-qualified YongSang Kim will co-lead an international dispute resolution practice for one of Korea's largest law firms.
May 04, 2020 at 03:25 PM
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YongSang Kim
Korean firm Yulchon has hired a former O'Melveny & Myers lawyer to co-lead its international dispute resolution practice.
U.S.-qualified YongSang Kim represents corporate clients on criminal litigation and investigations as well as antitrust civil litigation. Kim also advises on international arbitration cases, including acting for the South Korean government in a treaty-based investor-state dispute before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. Last year, he successfully represented Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration, a client of his since 2008, in a commercial dispute in California.
Kim joined O'Melveny as counsel in 2015 in Washington, D.C., and moved to Seoul the next year to be the firm's office representative there. Before that, he practiced for nine years at Arnold & Porter.
At Yulchon, Kim will co-lead the international disputes team with partner Yun Jae Baek, an international arbitration specialist.
O'Melveny has two senior lawyers based in the Seoul office, which the firm launched in 2012: litigation partner and office representative Youngwook Shin and of counsel Jae Wan Chi, who, before joining the firm in 2018, led the global legal affairs at Samsung Electronics. The firm's Korea practice is led by Los Angeles partner Joseph Kim.
YongSang Kim is the latest in a series of Korean lawyers to move from a global to a domestic firm. Notably last year, former Simpson Thacher & Bartlett partner Youngjin Sohn joined Korean firm Kim & Chang after the U.S. firm decided to close its Seoul office.
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