Tae Yong Seo

Mr. Tae-Yong Seo is a partner at Shin & Kim. Mr. Seo’s main areas of practice include international/domestic securities offerings, PEF consulting, corporate restructuring, investigation on unfair trading of capital market, accounting supervision and general corporate legal affairs.

Mr. Seo also worked as a foreign associate in the Hong Kong office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and experienced capital market transactions.

Foreign Associate, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Hong Kong (2007-2008)

Shin & Kim LLC (2001-Present)

Judicial Research & Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (1999-2001)

[Professional Affiliations]

Member, Postal service Management Evaluation Committee, Korea Post (2023-Present)

Member, Examination Committee for Listing on KOSDAQ Market, Korea Exchange (2020-2022)

Legal Advisor, Korea Exchange (2019-Present)

Legal Advisor, Credit Finance Association (2017-Present)

Member, Alternative Investment Committee, Government Employees Pension Service (2017-2019)

Member, Risk Management Committee of the Mutual Benefit System for Small and Micro Business Owners, Korea Federation of SMEs (2015-2018)

Member, Derivatives Market Development Committee, Korea Exchange (2015-2017)

Member, Listing Committee of KOSDAQ Market, Korea Exchange (2012-2014)

Korean Bar

The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides – Capital Markets 2025: Korea Chapter (Co-authored)

The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides – Capital Markets 2023: Korea Chapter (Co-authored)

Law Business Research – The Private Equity Review 2022 (11th edition) Part I, Fundraising: Korea chapter (Co-authored)

Law Business Research – The Private Equity Review 2019 (8th edition) Part I, Fundraising: Korea chapter (Co-authored)

Securities Issuance: Advised on IPOs for Samsung Life, Samsung SDS, Netmarble Games, ING Life and Kakao Bank, Kendall Square REITs, etc.

Private Equity Fund: Advised on the establishment of PEFs and transaction structures for IMM Private Equity, Mirae Asset Management, JKL Partners, Dominus Partners, Q Capital, and other leading domestic PEs

Corporate restructuring: Advised on workout for SK Networks and on voluntary arrangements for Korean Cable & System’s, etc.

Investigation of unfair trading in the capital market: Advised on response to more than 20 unfair trading investigations

Response to Listing Maintenance: Advised on substantial review of around ten cases of listing eligibility of listed companies on the KOSPI and KOSDAQ market

University of Southern California Law School

LL.M.

2006 - 2007

Seoul National University College of Social Science

B.A.

1990 - 1997