Wook Chung

Wook Chung is a Partner in Montgomery McCracken’s Business Department and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He serves as an outside general counsel to many corporate clients, from start-ups to multinational companies on a wide range of corporate management and business and real estate transaction issues.

His practice primarily focuses on advising domestic and international companies on commercial and real estate transactions, contract negotiations, and general labor and employment matters, with a particular emphasis on business formation, U.S. market entry, regulatory registration, and day-to-day operational legal support.

Wook regularly serves as outside general counsel to large corporate and mid-market companies, as well as retail businesses in the fashion, beauty, and consumer products sectors, advising on entity formation, foreign qualification, commercial contracting, employment infrastructure, and real estate matters, including retail and other commercial leases, store rollouts and expansions, warehouse and logistics facilities, and related operational agreements. His work often involves supporting clients through both strategic structuring decisions and the practical legal issues that arise in the ongoing operation of U.S. business platforms.

In addition to his transactional and advisory work, Wook represents clients in business disputes and litigation matters, including class actions, antitrust matters, products liability claims, and complex commercial disputes.

Wook currently serves as one of the consultants for the members of a South Korean foreign trade promotion governmental agency called KOTRA (Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency). He had previously worked as a consultant attorney for a prominent law firm with offices in New York, New Jersey, Florida, and Texas, where he provided counsel on international commercial transactions and litigation as well as labor and employment law issues. And he held various positions in Seoul, Korea, including as a foreign legal counsel to a prominent law firm in Seoul and as an Officer of the Judge Advocate General (JAG) (Ret. Captain) to the Republic of Korea Air Force (South Korea).

Wook received a J.D. degree from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center and received a B.A. degree from Rutgers University with a major in Political Science and a minor in Economics.