Ms. Seoyoung Chung is an associate at Shin & Kim LLC. Her practice primarily focuses on corporate acquisition/M&A transactions, corporate governance, general corporate advice, etc.

Ms. Chung has provided companies and funds from various industrial sectors at home and abroad with advice on various corporate transactions, such as corporate acquisition/M&A transaction, managerial right disputes and other matters related to laws on companies.
Ms. Chung, who graduated from the College of Business Administration of Seoul National University (B.A., summa cum laude) and then the Yonsei University Law School (J.D., cum laude), provides her clients with practical advice in light of their business strategies based on her experience of working in the global business climate as she performed overseas sales duties in the finished car industry before entering the Yonsei University Law School.

• Advised on the merger between HD Hyundai Heavy Industries and HD Hyundai Mipo
• Advised on the in-kind contribution of shares in HD Hyundai’s overseas shipbuilding affiliates to HD Hyundai Asia Holdings
• Advised on HD Hyundai Asia Holdings’ acquisition of Doosan Vina
• Advised Calyps Capital and Meritz Securities on the sale of shares in Seorin Company Co., Ltd.
• Advised on the acquisition of the US listed company Meridian Bioscience, Inc. by SD Biosensor
• Advised on the inducement of investment from the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund PIP and PWARP INVESTMENT from Singapore by Kakao Entertainment
• Advised on IMM Credit Solution’s investment in KT Cloud
• Advised on a dispute over the managerial rights of Hanmi Science
• Advised on the participation in a tender for the acquisition of the 3D intraoral scanner company Medit for KKR
• Advised on the establishment of a JV between SK Geo Centric Co., Ltd. and the US plastic waste recycling company PureCycle Technologies
• Advised on the acquisition of the KOSDAQ listed company Chorokbaem Media by Q Capital Partners
• Advised on the acquisition of the Korean genetics company Theragen Health by Lotte Healthcare
• Advised on the sale of interests in the US battery waste recycling company Ascend Elements by SKE Ecoplant
• Advised on the inducement of investment from STIC Investments by Jaewon and Jaewon’s reorganization of the governance structure of its affiliates
• Advised on the acquisition of the loan brokerage platform Alda by KB Capital
• Advised on JKL Partners’ investment in the secondary cell company DSEV
• Advised on the acquisition of shares in the IT solution company INSystem by the KOSDAQ listed company Eutilex and the merger between them
• Advised on the acquisition of an online parking platform and an electric bicycle sharing service platform on behalf of a mobility platform business operator
• Advised on airline funding by the KDB Key Industry Stabilization Fund