Jae-Hoon Cheong is a senior member of Kim & Chang’s corporate/M&A department. 

Mr. Cheong’s practice primarily focuses on mergers and acquisitions, and antitrust-related matters. He has advised a broad range of public and private clients across many industries, including domestic conglomerates in outbound M&A transactions and foreign clients in various business sectors. 

Mr. Cheong has extensive experience advising clients on a wide range of corporate law matters, in particular, on corporate governance, foreign direct investment and outbound investment-related matters. While Mr. Cheong is known for his extensive experience advising major Korean and multinational investors with their acquisitions of Korean companies, in the recent years, he has also assisted Korean conglomerates on their outbound M&A transactions. 

As a member of the firm's Antitrust & Competition Practice, Mr. Cheong specializes in advising domestic and multinational clients on hypermarket regulation, subcontract fairness law, and cartel regulation. In addition, he has extensive experience representing domestic and multinational companies in global merger filings involving several multi-jurisdictional antitrust authorities, including the EU, US, UK, China, India, Turkey, Russia, Israel, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Australia, Singapore, Brazil, Germany and Japan. 

Mr. Cheong received his LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 2003 and his LL.B. from Seoul National University College of Law in 1995. He attended the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea in 1997. He is admitted to the Korea bar.