Yelim Hyon

  • Partner
  • T. +82-2-3404-0861
  • F. +82-2-3404-7307
  • E. yelim.hyon@bkl.co.kr

Overview

Yelim Hyon is an attorney at Bae, Kim & Lee LLC. Ms. Hyon's practice mainly focuses on capital market practices including IPOs and bond offerings and asset management practices embracing investments through private investment funds and alternative investments.

Ms. Hyon earned an LL.B. from Yonsei University in 2011 and J.D. from Yonsei University Law School in 2014. She is native in Korean and fluent in English.

Representative Experience

2021-2022 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
2014-Present Bae, Kim & Lee LLC

Representative Matters

Advised both the US biotech companies such as Psomagen and NeoImmuneTech and the Korean biotech companies including Celltrion Healthcare, MedPacto, CELLID, and ezCaretech on their respective IPOs
Advised DoubleDown Interactive, an online game development company, on its U.S. NASDAQ listing
Advised old shareholders on the Hanwha System's IPO on the Korea Exchange's KOSPI market
Advised the acquisition group on the acquisition of USD 1 billion worth of foreign exchange stabilization bonds issued by Korean government
Advised Kakao on its issuance of USD 1 billion GDR and its listing on the Singapore Stock Exchange
Advised both the US biotech companies such as Psomagen and NeoImmuneTech and the Korean biotech companies including Celltrion Healthcare, MedPacto, CELLID, and ezCaretech on their respective IPOs
Advised DoubleDown Interactive, an online game development company, on its U.S. NASDAQ listing
Advised old shareholders on the Hanwha System's IPO on the Korea Exchange's KOSPI market
Advised the acquisition group on the acquisition of USD 1 billion worth of foreign exchange stabilization bonds issued by Korean government
Advised Kakao on its issuance of USD 1 billion GDR and its listing on the Singapore Stock Exchange
Advised domestic investors on their investment as alternative investment assets in Lumiere commercial real estate in Paris, hotels in London, renewable energy plant in Spain, and Jackson Park, a multi-tenant building, respectively
Advised domestic investors on their investment in private equity funds managed by foreign sponsors such as Blackstone, Ares, Lexington and Coller

Education

2021 Columbia Law School (LL.M.)
2014 Yonsei University Law School (J.D.)
2011 Yonsei University (LL.B.)

Qualifications

2024 New York
2014 Korea