Daeryuk & Aju Law Firm and Lin Law Firm have launched a consultative body to pursue a merger, formally beginning integration talks.
The firms on April 29 held a signing ceremony for a business agreement in a conference room at Daeryuk & Aju’s offices in Seoul’s Gangnam district and agreed to form a merger promotion committee. About 50 people, including partner attorneys from both sides and journalists, attended.
The committee will oversee merger discussions from April 29 until the merger is registered, including the merger structure, decision-making system and the name of the combined firm.
Under an equal-merger principle, each firm will appoint one overall co-managing representative and the committee will have the same number of members from each side. Decisions will be made unanimously.
If completed, the deal would be the largest combination in South Korea’s law-firm history, the firms said. The two firms have a combined 393 lawyers in South Korea — 260 at Daeryuk & Aju and 133 at Lin. Their 2025 revenue totaled 143.7 billion won, including 102.7 billion won for Daeryuk & Aju and 41.0 billion won for Lin.
Based on those figures, the merged firm would rank sixth domestically by number of lawyers and in the eighth tier by revenue.
The firms said they expect synergies by combining Daeryuk & Aju’s strengths in litigation, advisory work and new-industry sectors with Lin’s corporate advisory capabilities.
Lee Gyu-cheol, managing partner at Daeryuk & Aju, said the integration is a strategic decision aimed at building “a new model of a comprehensive law firm” able to respond to rapidly changing industrial structures and the global environment, rather than simply expanding in size.
Lim Jin-seok, managing partner at Lin, said the firms will combine their “innovation DNA” with professional expertise and organizational capabilities to provide more advanced legal services to clients at home and abroad, adding that the goal is to become a market-leading firm.
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