Private Equity; IPO & Capital Markets; Mergers & Acquisitions; Financial Regulation; Financial Institutions M&AㆍOverseas Investment; Merger Control

Partner

Mr. Joong Sung Ahn is a partner in the Capital MarketsᆞPE Group. He advises on a broad range of areas including PEF/PE, M&A, IPO/capital markets, financial regulation and consultation for financial companies, overseas expansion of financial companies, criminal finance cases, and business combinations.

Mr. Ahn advises on the entire process of complex M&A transactions for PEFs, from the designing of the transaction structure, to conducting of legal due diligence, drafting of various investment agreements and negotiations. Mr. Ahn has successfully assisted many domestic and foreign companies such as Vietnamese and Indonesian companies with their IPOs on the Korea Exchange through consultations on matters such as the listing structure, internal control systems and establishment of disclosure systems. Mr. Ahn has also provided specialized legal advice to many financial institutions on various financial regulation issues, including governance structure, licenses/permits, disclosure and unfair practice regulation, including insider trading.

Mr. Ahn’s expertise in the domestic/overseas capital markets is rooted in his previous years of civil service at the Financial Services Commission and Korea Fair Trade Commission. Recognizing his expertise, the Korea Financial Investment Association appointed him as a lecturer in 2013, and he continues to lecture on financial and capital markets law to executives and employees of securities companies and asset management companies in Korea. Mr. Ahn continues to further his expertise in the capital markets field as a member of both the Korean Securities Law Association and Korea Financial Law Association.

His clients consist mainly of securities companies and asset management companies, including Kiwoom Securities, Shinhan Investment, IBK Securities, and WWG Asset Management.

Mr. Ahn holds a conjoint LL.B. and B.A. in Public Administration from Yonsei University and an LL.M. from Yonsei University.

He is a member of the Korean Bar.

Admitted to bar, Korea, 2013

Yonsei University (LL.M., 2014) Yonsei University (LL.B., 2009)