About

Provided by Yoon & Yang LLC

Yoon & Yang’s Finance Practice assists clients with its high level of expertise and experience on a wide range of complicated legal and institutional issues faced by large insurance companies and their customers. Our insurance lawyers, consisting of attorneys, senior advisors, and expert advisors with multifaceted work experience in insurance while formerly serving in financial supervisory authorities, identify and address regulatory risks that arise in the insurance sector while facilitating clients’ communication with financial supervisory authorities in the course of conducting their insurance business.

In particular, Yoon & Yang distinguishes itself by providing a comprehensive range of services that go beyond the traditional scope of insurance-related legal services related to the existing insurance commercial law and insurance contract law. In addition, the firm has solidified its position as a full-service law firm that can provide one-stop services in a wide range of areas, including personal credit information laws, fair trade laws, IT regulatory laws, and other tax laws, which have recently emerged as major legal issues for insurance companies.

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Insurance - South Korea

3
Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Yoon & Yang has an established team of lawyers handling a range of insurance matters in the Korean market, including litigation and advisory matters. The team includes a number of practitioners with prior experience working for Korean financial regulatory authorities, including former Financial Supervisory Service employees. It regularly acts for financial institutions, insurers and corporate clients.

Work Highlights

  • Yoon & Yang advised Hanwha Life insurance on regulatory and transactional work arising from its USD183 million acquisition of a US securities company and a related affiliate.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Chang Hun Han
3
Chang Hun Han
Head of Insurance
3
Band 3

Chang Hun Han is highly knowledgeable and experienced in insurance industry and insurance-related legal issues. He specialises in insurance-related regulatory issues such as supervision of insurance product sales, business activities of insurance companies, and settlement of disputes.

Chang Hun provides reliable and accurate opinions.

He is well versed in the complex and multilayered legal issues surrounding the Korean insurance industry, and he provides practical and effective help to clients in strategic decision-making.

Seung Jae  Yeon
4
Seung Jae Yeon
4
Band 4

Yeon Seung Jae is a partner at Yoon & Yang. His main practice focuses on insurance-related laws and supervision.

Seung Jae is good at clearly identifying the legal issues desired by the client and deriving solutions. He is also very quick and has enough business sense.

With a background in the Legal Affairs Division of the Financial Supervisory Service, he brings extensive experience and exceptional knowledge and expertise.

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Yoon & Yang LLC

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Insurance

Chang Hun Han
3
Chang Hun Han
Head of Insurance
3
Band 3
Seung Jae  Yeon
4
Seung Jae Yeon
4
Band 4

Members

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Chang Hun Han

Chang Hun Han

Head of Department

Chongsu Seo

Hwang Lim Jang

Clients

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AIG Korea

DB Insurance

Hanwha Life Insurance

KB Insurance Co., Ltd.

KB Life Insurance

Korea Investment Holdings Co., Ltd.

Meritz Fire & Marine Insurance

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance

Samsung Life Insurance