YOON&YANG
Yoon & Yang’s Public Sector Team has rich experience in all stages and areas related to private investment in infrastructure, from the initial project planning stage to the concession agreement stage, the project operation stage, and each financing stage/area, offering professional advice that meets the needs of clients. In particular, infrastructure projects, such as those related to roads, harbors, waterworks and sewage works facilities, and military facilities, are characterized by long-term construction and investment, and it is an area where professional knowledge and experience is especially important to adjust and combine the different interests of the government, local governments, project entities, and financial institutions, and the Public Sector Team is particularly suited to providing comprehensive legal services in this area.

Key Services

Public-private partnership (PPP) projects

  • Advising on negotiations for signing concession agreements and others
  • Disputes regarding changes and adjustments to the total project cost
  • Disputes regarding the revocation of implementation plan approvals and cancellation of project developer designations, and disputes regarding compensation for losses
  • Legal interpretation of the Act on Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure and the Act on Contracts to which the State is a party


Public tenders

  • Regarding tenders
  • Sanctions on or business suspension of unjust concessionaires


Public contracts

  • Advising on local governments and government procurement agreements
  • Advising on the Act on Contracts to which the State is a Party


 

Representative Cases

Advice regarding public-private partnership projects

  • Comprehensive advisory services regarding GTX Line A
  • Advised Hyundai Engineering on Baegot Bridge
  • Advised on Ui-Sinseol city railway (LRT)
  • Advised on the Incheon Munhak Tunnel construction, the Incheon North Port construction, the Icheon waterworks treatment facility construction, the Seoul outer expressway construction, the Busan Yeongdo terminal sewage treatment plant construction project, and the BTO Financing Agreement for Bibong-Maesong urban expressway
  • Advised on the Yeongcheon-Sangju expressway construction, the reserve public rental housing pilot project, the Busan Sinseong Tunnel BTO, the Pohang sewage reuse facility BTO, Busan Second Jangsan-ro BTO, Gumi treated sewage reuse facility BTO, Hwaseong-si sewage treatment plant BTO, Mungyeong household waste incineration facility BTO, Pyeongtaek Eco Center BTO, and the new residence hall construction BTL of Chungbuk National University and 2 other universities
  • Advised on the Daejeon city railway system establishment project


Administrative appeal and administrative litigation

  • Administrative appeal for the revocation of the refusal to grant permission to occupy and use roads and green belts at the GTX-A construction site
  • Various litigation regarding the compensation for losses


Public tenders and public contracts

  • Preliminary injunction confirming the preferred bidder status related to the development project for idle land in the north of Seoul Station
  • Preliminary injunction preserving the preferred bidder status and prohibiting the execution and enforcement of contracts related to the Incheon International Airport Corporation
  • Preliminary injunction preserving the preferred bidder status related to Changwon urban parks
  • Represented the successful bidder in the KFTC sanction case and K-Water damages claim case regarding the bid-rigging related to the construction work on the 4 Major Rivers Restoration Project
  • Represented the successful bidder in the KFTC sanction case and K-Water damages claim case regarding the bid-rigging related to construction work on the Honam high-speed railway
  • Represented the successful bidder in the KFTC sanction case and KOGAS damages claim case regarding the bid-rigging related to the construction work on the natural gas main piping and management office
  • Represented the successful bidder in the KFTC sanction case and KOGAS damages claim case regarding the bid rigging related to the purchase of power lines; represented Namkwang Construction in litigation seeking the revocation of the unjust concessionaire sanction disposition
  • Represented Samsung C&T in a preliminary injunction case for the suspension of a tender process and a case for seeking the confirmation of contractor status