Hyeon Deog Cho

Practice Areas

Corporate Governance & Shareholder Disputes, Shareholder Activism Defense, Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Insolvency & Restructuring, and Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense.

Career

Hyeon Deog Cho is a leading attorney of the Corporate Governance & Shareholder Disputes Practice of Kim & Chang, especially focusing on corporate governance improvement, corporate transformation including spin-off/split-off, holding companies, corporate and capital market transactions, corporate restructuring and insolvency, distressed M&As, and acquisition financing. He also has extensive experience in white collar crime defense. Mr. Cho served as an advisor to the Minister of Justice and Financial Services Commissions and completed an international lawyer program at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP’s New York office.

Professional Memberships

Korean Bar.

Personal

Boston University School of Law (LL.M., 2009);

Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (2004);

Graduate School of Business Administration, Seoul National University (M.B.A, 1992; Ph.D., 1999);

College of Business Administration, Seoul National University (B.A., 1990).

Publications

Chambers Global Practice Guides - Shareholders’ Rights & Shareholder Activism: Korea Chapter (Co-author, Chambers and Partners, 2022-2025);

Lexology In-Depth: Shareholder Rights and Activism (Edition 4-10): Korea Chapter (Co-author, Law Business Research, 2019-2025);

The Legal 500 - Corporate Governance Country Comparative Guide (Edition 1-2): Korea Chapter (Co-author, Legalease, 2019-2020).