Kim & Chang won the “Korea Law Firm of the Year” award at the ALB Korea Law Awards 2022 held on November 16, 2022.
At the awards ceremony, Kim & Chang received the highest recognition in a total of 14 categories, including: eight firm awards, which honor the best law firms in each field; two individual awards, which are given to attorneys who have shown outstanding performance; and four deal awards, which recognize influential deals from the past year.
The ALB Korea Law Awards, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, is an annual awards ceremony hosted by Asian Legal Business (ALB), an Asian legal media under Thomson Reuters, which recognizes outstanding law firms, deals, lawyers and in-house legal teams in each category through evaluation by a panel of experts in the fields of the respective awards.
The following is a list of our firm’s wins:
Firm Award Categories – Sole Winner
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Korea Law Firm of the Year (tenth consecutive win)
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Korea Deal Firm of the Year (third consecutive win)
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Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year - Domestic (fourth consecutive win)
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Litigation Law Firm of the Year (second consecutive win)
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Maritime Law Firm of the Year
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Regulatory and Compliance Law Firm of the Year (third consecutive win)
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Restructuring and Insolvency Law Firm of the Year
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Tax and Trusts Law Firm of the Year (second consecutive win)
Individual Award Categories – Sole Winner
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Woman Lawyer of the Year: Yunjoh Lee (second consecutive win)
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Young Lawyer of the Year: Heesung Ahn
Deal Award Categories – Co-Winner
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Equity Market Deal of the Year: LG Energy’s IPO
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IPO Deal of the Year: LG Energy’s IPO
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M&A Deal of the Year: Acquisition of LINA Life Insurance of Korea, Cigna Korea and LINA Financial Service
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Technology, Media and Telecommunications Deal of the Year: Acquisition of Delivery Hero Korea
