YOON&YANG

Sang-Hyun Ahn Partner

TEL 82 2 6003 7526
FAX 82 2 6003 7036
E-MAIL shahn@hwawoo.com

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

Introduction of the No Par Value Stock System under the Revised Commercial Act (BFL, 2012. 1.)
Applicable Scope of the Takeover Regulation, BFL (Co-Author, 2012. 9.)
IFLR 2013 Guide to M&A (2013)
Korea Chapter, Global Legal Insight : Merger & Acquisition (2nd Edition)