Joon Hyug  

CHUNG

Dr Joon Hyug Chung is an Associate Professor at Seoul National University (SNU) School of Law, specializing in corporate and financial law. He regularly advises the Korean government and has led several high-profile government projects on mandatory takeover bids, share repurchases, dividend policies, insider trading, corporate group transactions, and public M&A regulation.

He currently serves as a non-standing Commissioner of the Securities and Futures Commission, which oversees Korea’s capital markets and reviews related laws and regulations. He is also Chair of the Legal Framework Committee at the Korea Accounting Institute, Korea’s national standard setter for sustainability disclosure.

Before entering academia, Dr Chung was a partner at a leading Korean law firm, where he advised on high profile cross-border and private equity transactions. He was recognized as one of Korea’s top M&A lawyers by Chambers Global, Legal500, and IFLR, and was honored as “Lawyer of the Year” by Legal Times and one of Asian Legal Business’s “40 Under 40.”