Seung Ryong Yoo
Asia-Pacific Guide 2024
Band 2 : Dispute Resolution: Litigation
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About
Provided by Seung Ryong Yoo
Practice Areas
Commercial ∙ Management Rights Disputes
Corporate Criminal Defense
Compliance
Financial ∙ Capital Market Disputes
Litigation ∙ Arbitration
Career
Seung Ryong Yoo is a managing partner at Yoon & Yang LLC. His main practice areas include corporate and commercial law, criminal law, and administrative law.
Seung Ryong Yoo has successfully represented clients in white-collar crime cases such as large-scale financial and construction disputes, breach of trust, and embezzlement against companies and business owners. In the case of financial disputes, Mr. Yoo represented clients in a civil case in connection with the liability for asset-backed loans between Bank and other financial institutions and a case concerning credit enhancement in PF loans. In both cases, Mr. Yoo convinced the appeals court to overturn the decision of the trial court for all claims in favor of his clients. In the case of construction disputes, Mr. Yoo successfully represented clients in a case involving shared responsibility arising from a joint supply and demand relationship among construction companies and a case concerning large-scale development projects through foreign joint ventures.
Professional Memberships
Admitted to bar, Korea (1993)
Publications
“Denial of a Wrongful Calculation and Distribution of Profits under the Corporate Income Act,” Cheong Yeon Non Chong (7th Ed.), Judicial Research & Training Institute in Commemoration of Retirement of President Gook Soo Park of Judicial Research & Training Institute, 2010
“Legal Reasoning and the Rule of Logics & the Rule of Thumb,” Judge’s Decision Making: Theories and Practices, p. 219-304, Judicial Development Foundation, 2010
“The Right of Life and Self-determination and Doctors’ Obligation of Treatment,” Medical Law, Vol.9, No.2 (Dec. 2008), Judicial and Public Administration Society of Korea, 2008
“Determination of Governing Law in the Marriage with a Foreigner,” Trial Materials, Vol. 101, December 2003, Issues of Family Court Cases (Vol. 1), Ministry of Court Administration, 2003
“Review of Issues of Defamation Cases at the Media Division of the Seoul Southern Court,” December 2012
Experience
2014-present: Yoon & Yang LLC
2015-present: Advisor on Tax Law, Seoul Regional National Tax Service
2015-present: Arbitrator, Korean Commercial Arbitration Board
2012-14: Member, Committee for Publication of Compendium of Court Practices (Civil Proceedings)
2012-14: Presiding Judge, Seoul Southern District Court
2011: Adjunct Professor, Yonsei University Law School
2009-12: Professor, Judicial Research & Training Institute (Civil Proceedings, Execution, Preservation, Tax)
2008-09: Presiding Judge, Gwangju District Court (Warrants)
2006-08: Judge, Seoul High Court (Medicine, Administration)
2006: Judicial Policy Judge, Ministry of Court Administration
2004-06: Judicial Policy Researcher, Ministry of Court Administration
2003-04: Judge, Seoul Family Court
2001-02: Visiting Scholar, Virginia Law School
2000-03: Judge, Seoul Central District Court
1997-00: Judge, Cheon Branch, Daejeon District Court
1995-97: Judge, Seoul District Court
1993-95: Judge, Southern Branch, Seoul District Court
Languages Spoken
Korean and English
Clients
Korean Air
Education
Judicial Research and Training Institute
1993
Seoul National University, College of Law
LL.B.
1989
Awards
Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: Litigation
Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific
2023
Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: Litigation
Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific
2022
Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: Litigation
Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific
2021
Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: Litigation
Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific
2020
Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: Litigation
Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific
2019
Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: Litigation
Chambers and Partners Global
2023
Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: Litigation
Chambers and Partners Global
2022
Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: Litigation
Chambers and Partners Global
2021
Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution; Regulatory: Compliance and Investigations
Legal 500 Asia-Pacific
2023
Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution; Regulatory: Compliance and Investigations
Legal 500 Asia-Pacific
2022
Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution; Regulatory: Compliance and Investigations
Legal 500 Asia-Pacific
2021
Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution; Regulatory: Compliance and Investigations
Legal 500 Asia-Pacific
2020
Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution; Regulatory: Compliance and Investigations
Legal 500 Asia-Pacific
2019
Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: White-Collar Crime
Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific
2020