YOON&YANG
In order to offer the legal services that clients want in financial/capital markets disputes, Yoon & Yang’s Litigation/Arbitration Practice, composed of attorneys with professional expertise and experience in securities, collective investments, derivatives, and general finance, continues to pioneer the development of legal principles in finance/capital markets. It continues to excel in civil/criminal disputes and dispute prevention advisory services related to various financial derivatives, including knock-in/knock-out currency option derivatives, equity-linked securities, equity-linked warrants, index arbitrage trading, among others.

Key Services

  • Advising financial institutions (banks, securities firms, insurance companies, asset management companies) on the overall business, responding to investigations, and representing them in civil/criminal litigation
  • Offering advice, responding to investigations, and representing clients in civil/criminal litigation related to financial investment instruments
  • Offering advice, responding to investigations, and representing clients in civil/criminal litigation related to financial investment services
  • Offering advice, responding to investigations, and representing clients in civil/criminal litigation related to M&As and other various transactions involving financial institutions
  • Assisting with cases on the issuance, holding, and distribution of shares
  • Acting in civil disputes and criminal cases on unfair trade practices, including insider trading, market price manipulation, and unfair trading
  • Representing in advisory and litigation case on disclosure documents, such as registration statements, business reports, and audit reports (window dressing)
  • Acting in civil disputes and criminal cases on various financial matters, including derivative instruments


 

Representative Cases

  • Represented in civil/criminal disputes regarding KIKO
  • Represented in a criminal dispute regarding ELW
  • Responded to a supervisory authority’s investigation related to ELS and handled the related civil dispute
  • Represented commercial banks and securities firms in various civil, administrative, and criminal cases related to DLF/Lime/Optimus Fund and advised them on the same
  • Represented in a securities-related class action, filed on the grounds of a false entry in a securities firm’s registration statement
  • Represented in a damages litigation between an investor and a collective investment business entity, filed on the grounds of the latter’s negligence in the creation and operation of a collective investment scheme
  • Represented in a commercial bank’s insurance claim litigation against K-SURE and a case on debt obligation guarantee money
  • Represented in a commercial bank’s civil litigation on a dispute under the Electronic Financial Transactions Act
  • Offered legal advice on response measures for FSS examinations on various issues of securities firms and other financial institutions, such as credit extensions to large shareholders, related party transactions, and cross trading
  • Advised and represented a commercial bank related to gain and loss settlements from corporate restructuring/corporate rehabilitation procedures and dissenting creditors’ request for purchase of claims