YOON&YANG
Sang-Hyun Ahn Partner
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Sang-Hyun Ahn is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC. His main practice areas are corporate governance, corporate law, compliance, ESG, management rights disputes and M&As, etc.
Mr. Ahn has built broad experiences in M&A, foreign investment, disputes on management rights, corporate rehabilitation, and compliance, etc. and based on such experiences, his recent practice mainly focuses on improvement of corporate governance and compliance matters.

Experience

  • 2003-present Yoon & Yang LLC
  • 2015-present Member of Legal Advisory Group for Outbound SMEs, Ministry of Justice
  • 2013-present Lecturer on Corporate Law, Training Program for New Attorneys, Korean Bar Association
  • 2001-03 Yoon & Partners

Education

  • 2007 Columbia Law School, LL.M.
  • 2001 Judicial Research and Training Institute
  • 1999 Yonsei University College of Law, LL.B.

Representative Matters

[M&A]

  • Advised on POSCO Plantec’s inducement of investment from UAMCO (sale of management rights)
  • Advised on sale of WOS (subsidiary of Wave Electronics)
  • Advised on acquisition of KPX Fine Chemical by Hanwha Chemical
  • Advised on POSCO’s equity investment in Li3 Energy and PALC (Latin Americal resource development companies)
  • Advised on POSCO’s acquisition of shares in an Indonesian mining company
  • Advised on acquisition of Random House
  • Advised on inducement of investment by Galaxia Electronics
  • Advised on acquisition of Look Optics by Neoplux Private Equity Fund
  • Advised on acquisition of ST Pharm by Neoplux Private Equity Fund
  • Advised on inducement of investment by Metanet MCC
  • Advised on acquisition of Daewoo Information System by Metanet
  • Advised on acquisition of Tongil Heavy Industries by SNT Dynamics
  • Advised on inducement of investment by Wave Electronics
  • Advised on acquisition of shares in Daechang Altec by POSCO P&S (formerly Posteel)
  • Advised on transfer of business by Dongah Construction Industries
  • Advised on acquisition of Newcore by E-land
  • Advised on acquisition of Carrefour by E-land
  • Advised on acquisition of Daewoo Bus by Young An Hat
  • Advised on acquisition of Gyeongin Broadcasting by Young An Hat


[Compliance]

  • Advised LG Electronics’ on establishment of a company-wide compliance system
  • Advised LIG Nex1 on compliance
  • Advised Bayer Korea on compliance
  • Advised POSCO on compliance regarding the overseas business
  • Advised Yahoo Korea on compliance
  • Advised Accenture Korea on compliance


 

Awards

  • Stand-out Lawyer, Thomson Reuters (2024)

Publications

  • Korea Chapter, Defence & Security Procurement, Getting the Deal Through, Law Business Research (Co-author, 2017-2020)
  • Korea Chapter, 2013 Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions, IFLR (Co-author, 2013)
  • Korea Chapter, Global Legal Insight : Merger & Acquisition, Global Legal Group (Co-author, 2013)
  • Applicable Scope of the Takeover Regulation, BFL, Seoul National University Center for Financial Law (Co-author, 2012)
  • Introduction of the No Par Value Stock System under the Revised Commercial Act, BFL, Seoul National University Center for Financial Law (2012)

Insights