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Young Su Shin

Young Su Shin

Asia-Pacific 2026

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Career

Young Su Shin is a Head of Corporate & Finance Practice at Yulchon. His main practice areas are insurance, trust, finance and M&A. Mr. Shin has years of experience in providing legal advice on insurance and to insurance companies, trust, approvals and permits for financial institutions, and financial regulations (responses to investigations by the Sanctions Review Committee, Accounting Oversight Deliberation Committee and Capital Market Investigation Deliberation Committee), including advices to banks, securities companies, asset management companies, holding companies and other financial institutions. His finance expertise encompasses, structured finance, PF/real estate finance, acquisition finance, issuance of securities such as CB, BW and ABS and collective investment such as Fund, PEF and SPAC other financial affairs, and disclosure and substantive review upon companies, and IPO. Mr. Shin has extensive M&A experience including M&A between financial institutions, M&A of companies in workout programs and cross-border M&A. In particular, Mr. Shin has sufficient track records in providing legal advice on the entire area of insurance, including establishment of insurance companies and their branches and obtaining the relevant license, insurance and insurance products, insurance–linked securities, asset management, audit and sanctions, M&A, and overseas investment of insurance companies, reinsurance, trade insurance, guaranty insurance, tax issues related to insurance and insurance companies, antitrust issues of insurance companies, and claims for insurance proceeds or reinsurance.

Personal

Education

2019 Financial CEO Course of Korea Financial Research Institute

2015 Insurance CEO Academy Program of Korea Insurance Research Institute

2009 Special Program of Low Carbon and Green Growth of National Strategy Institute

2004 Visiting Scholar, University of Washington School of Law

1997 Judicial Research and Training Institute, the Supreme Court of Korea

1993 Yonsei University College of Law, LL.B.

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Insurance - South Korea

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Shin Young Su co-heads Yulchon's insurance practice group and maintains a wide-ranging practice advising insurance companies and government entities on both contentious and advisory mandates in the Korean market. He is particularly active advising on acquisition and market entry matters.

Strengths

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  • He provides faithful and logical advice on complex issues and has excellent communication skills with clients.

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  • He is a premier authority on insurance and financial legal services.

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