YOON&YANG
Sungdo Choi Senior Foreign Attorney
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Sungdo Choi is a Senior foreign attorney. His main practice area is Vietnam & Southeast Asia.
After his admission to the New York bar in 2012, Mr. Choi worked at an Indonesian law firm Hanafiah Ponggawa & Partners, Kim & Chang and the Vietnam Office of Lee & Ko, and advised numerous Korean corporations in the Indonesian and Vietnamese market. He is currently leading Yoon & Yang’s Hanoi Office.

Experience

  • 2017-present Yoon & Yang LLC
  • 2016-17 Lee & Ko LLC
  • 2015-16 BIT Co. Ltd
  • 2013-15 Kim & Chang
  • 2012-13 Hanafiah Ponggawa & Partners

Education

  • 2011 Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M.
  • 2002 Sungkyunkwan University, LL.B.

Representative Matters

  • Advised Hyundai Motor Company’s joint venture on the operation of a business in Vietnam
  • Advised Hyundai E&C on the establishment of a joint venture in Vietnam
  • Advised Hyundai E&C on the construction of light rail in Hanoi, Vietnam
  • Advised Korea Land & Housing Corporation on the development of industrial complex in Vietnam
  • Advised SNS International on a partial transfer of the Starlake Project of Daewoo E&C
  • Advised IS Dongseo on a real estate development project in Vietnam
  • Advised Lotte Asset Development on a real estate development project in Vietnam
  • Advised Lotte Property & Development on the establishment of a real estate property management corporation in Vietnam
  • Advised SGC eTEC E&C on the acquisition of construction license in Vietnam
  • Advised Haeahn Architecture on the acquisition of construction license in Vietnam
  • Advised Hyundai Motor Company on the establishment of a branch office in Vietnam
  • Advised Korea Gas Corporation on the establishment of a branch office in Vietnam
  • Advised Korea Southern Power on the establishment of a branch office in Vietnam
  • Advised DL E&C on the establishment of a branch office in Vietnam
  • Advised Lotte Rental on the acquisition of license/permit to distribute medical equipment in Vietnam
  • Advised National Information & Credit Evaluation (NICE Group) on the management of the local corporation in Vietnam
  • Advised THN on the management of the local corporation in Vietnam
  • Advised Hyundai C&F on the development of industrial complex in Vietnam
  • Advised a Korean logistics company on the liquidation of its local corporation in Vietnam
  • Advised SFA on the establishment of a local corporation in Vietnam
  • Advised on the technology provision agreement between Kangnam Jevisco Korea and its local corporation in Vietnam
  • Advised a Korean investment company on the acquisition of convertible bonds of a Vietnamese infrastructure investment company

Awards

  • National Leader, Project Finance, Who's Who Legal Korea (2023)

Publications

  • Intellectual Property Rights in Indonesia, KOTRA Indonesia, 2013

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