YOON&YANG
Yoon & Yang’s Litigation/Arbitration Practice is a leader in advocating for client interests by successfully handling cases with complex jurisdictional and governing law issues, which arise from the differing nationalities of the parties involved. The Practice has acted in numerous litigation and arbitration cases for domestic and foreign shipping/vessel companies, airlines, land transportation companies, ship-owners mutual insurance associations (P&I clubs), insurance companies, charterers, freight forwarders, logistics companies, passengers, and shippers.

Key Services

  • Various disputes related to land/sea/air freight shipping and shipping accidents
  • Marine accidents, including vessel collisions, marine pollution, vessel sinking and stranding, vessel fires, maritime salvage, and general average
  • Disputes related to land/sea/air shipping/logistics-related agreements
  • Other disputes related to shipping and logistics
  • Disputes related to various insurance policies in connection with shipping and logistics
  • Advisory and litigation related to the liability limiting procedure
  • Advisory and litigation related to vessel/aircraft arrest (preliminary attachments, attachments, liens on ships)
  • Legal advice on various international treaties and conventions (the Warsaw Convention, the Montreal Convention), domestic and foreign laws and rules


 

Representative Cases

  • Dispute among many stakeholders from the suspension of operation of a large LNG carrier caused by a defect, where the carrier was built by applying a new domestic LNG tank technology
  • Advisory and litigation services related to the Taean oil spill case caused by the Hebei Spirit
  • Damages litigation case on the sinking of the MSC Carla held in New York, U.S.A.
  • Advisory and litigation cases on vessel sinking, vessel collisions, marine contamination caused by oil spills related to the Sea Prince, the Scarlet Ocean, the Niaga 47,
  • the EAS Tianjin, the Hyundai Fortune, the President Washington, the Yeomyeong, and the Yuil 1
  • Damages case resulting from a fuel oil defect in the Gant Vision
  • Multiple damages cases for passengers (bereaved families) and other victims related to plane crash accidents
  • Various types of legal advice to a charterer in connection with a dispute related to the termination of a long-term charter party, which was executed to import raw materials, on the grounds of changes in circumstances
  • Litigation case worth hundreds of billions of Korean won caused by poor underwriting of RG (refund guarantee) insurance and purchasing of foreign reinsurance related to a shipbuilding agreement