Yoo Kyung Moon is a partner and foreign legal consultant in the Antitrust Practice Group in the firm's Seoul office. Previously, she was an antitrust associate in the firm’s San Francisco Office, and worked out of the firm’s Shanghai Office before joining the firm’s Foreign Legal Consultant Office in Seoul. She has also served as Senior Legal Counsel at the Global Legal Affairs & Compliance Team of Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd. at its headquarters in Seoul.
Areas of Practice
Yoo Kyung specializes in complex business litigation and white collar criminal matters with an emphasis on antitrust and unfair competition issues. She has significant experience defending multinational businesses in criminal and civil proceedings involving the U.S. Department of Justice and foreign enforcement agencies. She also advises clients on various corporate compliance matters including developing and implementing antitrust audit and compliance programs and providing compliance training for executives and employees. In addition, she provides counseling for multinational businesses regarding overseas investment or operations involving multijurisdictional coordination including Korea and China and liaises between the Firm’s attorneys and local counsel in Korea for client matters involving business or disputes in Korea. Sheppard Mullin’s Dispute Resolution (International Firms) Practice has been highly ranked by Chambers’ Asia-Pacific South Korea for several years. Yoo Kyung also has experience on the development of China’s Anti-monopoly Law practice as well as recent enforcement trends and cases.
