简介
Yoon Hwan Hwang is an Antitrust/Competition partner at Yulchon LLC. Mr. Hwang has 20 years of experience with the Korea Fair Trade Commission (“KFTC”), where he handled major cases involving M&A, abuse of dominance, cartels, and unfair trade practices from the initial investigation stage to the adjudication and litigation stages as a division chief. He was also Vice Director General of Competition Programme, OECD Korea Policy Centre (in secondment while with the KFTC), shortly before joining Yulchon. In addition, while with the KFTC, he was a secondee at Steptoe & Johnson LLP. Mr. Hwang received a B.A. in International Economics from Seoul National University and an LL.M. from UC Davis.
- 2013 University of California, Davis School of Law,LL.M.
- 2003 Judicial Research and Training Institute, Supreme Court of Korea
- 2000 passed 42nd National Bar Examination
- 1996 Seoul National University,International Economics,B.A.
- 2023-Present Partner,Yulchon LLC
- 2026-Present Member,KFTC Institutional Improvement Task Force
- 2025-Present Director,Korea Distribution Law Association
- 2025-Present Member,Fund Management Deliberation Committee for “Fund for Promotion of Development and Commercialization of Industrial Technology”
- 2023-2023 Vice Director General of Competition Programme,OECD Korea Policy Centre (in secondment while with KFTC)
- 2022-2023 Director of Litigation Division,KFTC
- 2020-2022 Director of Standardized Contract Division, and Director of Deliberation Management (Cooperation),KFTC
- 2018-2020 Director of M&A Division,KFTC
- 2017-2018 Aide to Chair,KFTC
- 2011-2017 Senior Director of Deliberation Management, Senior Deputy Director of Consumer Safety Information Division, and Senior Deputy Director of Consumer Policy Division,KFTC
- 2003 Admitted to Bar , Republic of Korea
韩语,英语
主要业绩
- [2026]
- Represented Boryung in its business transfer and assumption transaction with Sanofi S.A.
- Represented Hyundai Glovis in its business combination transaction (business assumption)
- Advised semiconductor company "C" on antitrust compliance matters
- Represented Korea's three major broadcasters in a case involving their alleged unfair concerted conducts relating to the resale tender for relay broadcasting
- Represented company "B" in a case involving unfair concerted conducts by pork processing and sales business operators
- Represented company "A" in a case involving unfair concerted conducts by three sugar manufacturing and sales companies
- [2025]
- Represented company "L" in a case involving alleged unfair concerted conducts of five confectionery manufacturers
- Represented certain affiliates of business group "L" in the KFTC's investigation into alleged unfair internal transactions