Youngjin Sohn is a senior foreign attorney at Kim & Chang. He advises on various corporate matters focusing on international practice, including cross-border mergers & acquisitions, securities offerings and other corporate transactions. He also advises clients on enforcement actions and compliance.
Mr. Sohn has extensive experience with corporate matters involving Korean companies, including cross-border mergers and acquisitions and international capital markets transactions. He worked on a wide variety of innovative and complex transactions and was instrumental in bringing about many first-ever deals in Korea, such as Korea’s first dual-listed initial public offering and first Korea-listed initial public offering with an international tranche. He also worked on both outbound and inbound acquisitions involving Korean companies as well as joint ventures and strategic alliances and investments.
Prior to joining Kim & Chang, Mr. Sohn headed the Seoul office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP for six years. During his 20 years at Simpson Thacher in New York, Hong Kong and Seoul, Mr. Sohn focused on various corporate transactions including securities offerings, mergers & acquisitions involving a variety of instruments and industries, as well as certain other forms of transactions such as joint ventures and strategic investments. He also advised on government enforcement actions and compliance. Mr. Sohn also worked at Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York. Before his legal career, he also worked at Bain InterConsulting (Bain & Company) in Seoul and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. in Seoul.
Mr. Sohn has been consistently recognized as one of the top practitioners in his practice areas for more than a decade, including “Band 1” in Leading Individuals, International Firms in Korea, by Chambers and Partners for nine consecutive years (2011-2019). Mr. Sohn spoke in many conferences on topics related to his practice areas and also authored “Principal Issues in M&A from Acquirer’s Perspective” (Korean Journal of International Trade and Business Law, 2011) and co-authored “Securities Laws for Korean Issuers: Accessing the International Capital Markets” (Korean Business Law: The Legal Landscape and Beyond, 2010).
Mr. Sohn received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 1996 and B.A. in business administration from Seoul National University in 1986. He also received his M.B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles, in 1989. Mr. Sohn is admitted to the New York bar.