Kayoung Kim

Corporate Law, Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions, Foreign Investment/Outbound M&A, Foreign Outbound Investments, General Finance, Capital Markets, Financial Regulations & Compliance, Regulatory Investigation, Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Asset Management, Insurance

Kayoung Kim is a partner at Yulchon LLC who practices primarily in the areas of corporate legal affiars and finance. Ms. Kim received her LL.B. from College of Law, Seoul National University and completed the 40th training course at the Judicial Research and Training Institute. She started her career at Yulchon LLC and later joined Yoon & Yang LLC before returning to Yulchon LLC in 2024. Ms. Kim has built extensive expertise across various domains, including M&A, funds, private equity and corporate governance. She has also been selected as a leading lawyer in the corporate and M&A sector by multiple publications, including Chambers & Partners since 2022.

Admitted to bar, Korea (2011)

Legal review on Triangular Merger (co-author, 2013)

University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, LL.M. (2017); Seoul National University, College of Law, LL. B. (2009)