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“Korea Law Firm of the Year” for Eleven Years in a Row – ALB Korea Law Awards 2023

For the eleventh consecutive year, Kim & Chang won the “Korea Law Firm of the Year” award at the ALB Korea Law Awards 2023 held on November 10, 2023.

At the awards ceremony, Kim & Chang received the highest recognition in a total of 12 categories, receiving ten firm awards, which honor the best law firms in each field, and two deal awards, which recognize influential deals from the previous year.

The ALB Korea Law Awards ceremony, which celebrates its eleventh anniversary this year, is an annual awards ceremony hosted by Asian Legal Business (“ALB”), an Asian legal media under Thomson Reuters, which recognizes outstanding law firms, deals, lawyers and in-house legal teams in each category through evaluation by a panel of experts in the fields of the respective awards.

The following is a list of our firm’s wins this year.

Firm Award Categories – Sole Winner

  • Korea Law Firm of the Year (eleventh consecutive win)
  • Korea Deal Firm of the Year (fourth consecutive win)
  • Banking and Financial Services Law Firm of the Year
  • ESG-Advisory Law Firm of the Year
  • Insurance Law Firm of the Year
  • Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year - Domestic (fifth consecutive win)
  • Labour and Employment Law Firm of the Year
  • Maritime Law Firm of the Year (second consecutive win)
  • Restructuring and Insolvency Law Firm of the Year (second consecutive win)
  • Technology, Media and Telecommunications Law Firm of the Year
  • Deal Award Categories

  • Debt Market Deal of the Year: Korea Housing Finance Corporation’s Global Covered Bond Issuance (Co-Winner)
  • Real Estate Deal of the Year: Hines Mixed-Use Complex Development
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