Woo-jung Jon

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About Woo-jung Jon

Jeongyul LLC comprises around 70 lawyers with various experience and backgrounds generating maximum excellence in each specific area of law. Jeongyul LLC has a number of former high-ranking judges and prosecutors including former chief judges in appellate courts and head prosecutors of several districts, as well as around 12 listed arbitrators of the Korea Commercial Arbitration Board. Most of the lawyers have more than 10 years of practice experience in their own areas of focus ranging from general corporate governance, M&A, intellectual properties to civil or criminal litigation. Jeongyul LLC also has extensive experience counseling government agencies in various areas of administration such as the privatization of some industry or business and on the establishment of regulatory compliance systems under which businesses operate in a competitive or regulated environment. With 15 teams of their respective specialties, Jeongyul LLC provides the full scope of legal and business counseling to attain the best outcome from specific areas of business and resolve or prevent disputes. Lawyers at Jeongyul LLC work closely among members and teams across locations and areas of specialties to provide the best expertise available to serve the specific needs of clients, with the strong belief that their wealth of resources should be ready to clients for whatever, whenever and wherever they are needed. Not only in the private sector but also in the public sector, both as a practical partner and the strongest litigator, Jeongyul LLC provides clients sound legal counsel with best practical solutions to solve problems.

Dr. Woo-jung Jon is a partner at Jeongyul LLC. Dr. Jon’s primary areas of practice include M&A, employment and labor-related matters, securities regulations and international commodity trade. Dr. Jon has extensive experience advising on corporate governance and other general matters for a wide variety of corporate clients who have multinational business around the world.

Dr. Jon also teaches international law, company law and financial regulations at Yonsei University Underwood International College, National Tax Officials Training Institute, etc. Dr. Jon was a member of the Public Institution Evaluation Committee, commissioned by the Ministry of Strategy and Finance of Korea. He serves as a secretary of the International Committee of the Korea Bar Association. Dr. Jon is a listed arbitrator of the Korea Commercial Arbitration Board. He also did an internship at the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC). He has extensive experience in the field of international arbitration.

Dr. Jon graduated from Seoul National University, College of Law as valedictorian, and graduated from Korea University Law School (summa cum laude). Dr. Jon received his law doctorate (DPhil) and master’s (MSt) degrees from the University of Oxford. Dr. Jon also received an LL.M. from Peking University Law School and an LL.M. from Tsinghua University Law School in Beijing, China. Dr. Jon speaks Korean, English and Chinese.

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4th Floor Kumha Building, Hakdong-ro 401, Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam-gu Seoul Korea 06069

+82-10-9047-3708

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