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                                Sungdo Choi
                                Senior Foreign Attorney
                            
                            
                            - TEL 82 2 6182 8553
 - FAX 82 2 6003 7025
 - E-MAIL sdchoi@hwawoo.com
 
Biography
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.
                                    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.
Practice Areas
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.
 
Qualifications
Admitted to bar, New York (2012)
                                            
                                        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
- Recommended Individual, Lexology Index (2025)
 - National Leader, Project Finance, Who's Who Legal Korea (2023)
 
Publications
- Intellectual Property Rights in Indonesia, KOTRA Indonesia, 2013
 
Languages
Korean and English