YOON&YANG

Seung Ryong Yoo Partner

TEL 82 2 6003 7563
FAX 82 2 6003 7018
E-MAIL sryoo@yoonyang.com

Seung Ryong Yoo is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC. His main practice areas include corporate and commercial law, criminal law, and administrative law.
Mr. Yoo has successfully represented clients in white-collar crime cases such as large-scale financial and construction disputes, breach of trust, and embezzlement against companies and business owners. In the case of financial disputes, Mr. Yoo represented clients in a civil case in connection with the liability for asset-backed loans between Bank and other financial institutions and a case concerning credit enhancement in PF loans. In both cases, he convinced the appeals court to overturn the decision of the trial court for all claims in favor of his clients. In the case of construction disputes, he successfully represented clients in a case involving shared responsibility arising from a joint supply and demand relationship among construction companies and a case concerning large-scale development projects through foreign joint ventures.

Experience

2014-present Yoon & Yang LLC
2015-present Advisor on Tax Law, Seoul Regional National Tax Service
2015-present Arbitrator, Korean Commercial Arbitration Board
2012-14 Member, Committee for Publication of Compendium of Court Practices (Civil Proceedings)
2012-14 Presiding Judge, Seoul Southern District Court
2011 Adjunct Professor, Yonsei University Law School
2009-12 Professor, Judicial Research & Training Institute (Civil Proceedings, Execution, Preservation, Tax)
2008-09 Presiding Judge, Gwangju District Court (Warrants)
2006-08 Judge, Seoul High Court (Medicine, Administration)
2006 Judicial Policy Judge, Ministry of Court Administration
2004-06 Judicial Policy Researcher, Ministry of Court Administration
2003-04 Judge, Seoul Family Court
2001-02 Visiting Scholar, Virginia Law School
2000-03 Judge, Seoul Central District Court
1997-00 Judge, Cheonan Branch, Daejeon District Court
1995-97 Judge, Seoul District Court
1993-95 Judge, Southern Branch, Seoul District Court

Education

1993 Judicial Research and Training Institute
1989 Seoul National University, College of Law, LL.B.

Awards

Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: Litigation, Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific (2018-2025)
Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: Litigation, Chambers and Partners Global (2021-2024)
South Korea Lawyer of the Year, Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Awards (2024)
Litigation Star, Commercial and transactions (2020-2024); Product liability and recall, Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific (2024)
Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution; Regulatory: Compliance and Investigations, Legal 500 Asia-Pacific (2019-2024)
Leading Individual, Dispute Resolution: White-Collar Crime, Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific (2020)
Lawyer of the Year, Litigation, Legal Times (2017)

Publications

Review of Issues of Defamation Cases at the Media Division of the Seoul Southern Court, December 2012
Denial of a Wrongful Calculation and Distribution of Profits under the Corporate Income Act, Cheong Yeon Non Chong (7th Ed.), Judicial Research & Training Institute in Commemoration of Retirement of President Gook Soo Park of Judicial Research & Training Institute, 2010
Legal Reasoning and the Rule of Logics & the Rule of Thumb, Judge’s Decision Making: Theories and Practices, p. 219-304, Judicial Development Foundation, 2010
The Right of Life and Self-determination and Doctors’ Obligation of Treatment, Medical Law, Vol.9, No.2 (Dec. 2008), Judicial and Public Administration Society of Korea, 2008
Determination of Governing Law in the Marriage with a Foreigner, Trial Materials, Vol. 101, December 2003, Issues of Family Court Cases (Vol. 1), National Court Administration, 2003