YOON&YANG

Young Min Seo is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC, and his main practice areas are criminal law, digital forensics, intellectual property and finance.
Mr. Seo established the Digital Forensic Center at the Seoul Central District Public Prosecutors’ Office for the first time in the prosecution, while working at the High Technology Crime Investigation Division of the Seoul Central District Public Prosecutors’ Office, and applied digital forensics to investigation of financial, special and high-technology crime for the first time in Korea. Mr. Seo built expertise in digital forensics, criminal law regarding intellectual property (leakage of trade secrets), internal investigation of companies (audit) and finance, etc. as the Chief Prosecutor of the Seoul Central District Public Prosecutors’ Office (intellectual property, leakage of trade secrets), Chief Prosecutor of the 5th Criminal Division of the Seoul Southern District Public Prosecutors’ Office and Inspection Officer of the Ministry of Justice, etc. Since joining Yoon & Yang in 2019, he has utilized digital forensics for investigation and analysis of corporate risks, including internal investigations, investigation of accounting frauds or illegal acquisition of trade secrets, etc. Further, he has handled a wide variety of criminal cases involving intellectual property rights, e.g. a dispute on leakage of trade secrets between large companies, investigation and analysis of risks regarding illegal acquisition of trade secrets of a competitor by a research institute of a large business, and breach of the Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets Act of Lime Fund, etc.