Yi Keun Kim is an attorney at Kim & Chang. He primarily specializes in finance practice areas including corporate governance and shareholder disputes, anti-money laundering (“AML”) and sanctions compliance, banking, and securities. 

Prior to joining Kim & Chang, from 2015 to 2019, Mr. Kim worked as an in-house counsel at Woori Bank where he was responsible for corporate governance, overseas disputes and AML issues. During his time at the bank, he joined a task force assigned to set up a holding company of the bank and became the first general counsel of Woori Financial Group Inc. (the “holding company”) when the holding company was established in January 2019. He participated in making its bylaws and internal compliance system, buying new subsidiaries of the holding company, and monitoring its subsidiaries and affiliates. 

Before working at Woori Bank, he was an in-house counsel at IBK Securities Co. Ltd. from 2014 to 2015. He mainly provided legal advice related to the Commercial Act and the Financial Investment Services and Capital Market Act, and focused on internal compliance matters. 

From 2011 to 2014, he practiced at a major Korean law firm, advising overseas and domestic companies on M&A transactions and various corporate issues and representing clients in litigations. From 2008 to 2011, he served as a public attorney. He investigated and tried civil and administrative lawsuits on behalf of the Korean government. 

Mr. Kim received an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in 2014. From the Seoul National University College of Business Administration, he earned his master’s degree in finance in 2011 and bachelor’s degree in 2004. He graduated the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea in 2008. 

He is admitted to the New York bar and the Korean bar.