Rachel Ji-Young Yoo

Rachel Ji-Young Yoo supports the firm’s Foreign Investment practice, which provides service to U.S. clients investing in North Asian clients seeking to establish a presence in the United States. She is also actively developing the firm’s corporate compliance counsel practice. During her time as an in-house counsel, Rachel advised various developers in connection with the International Business District Development Project in Seoul on one of the project’s global capital investments. Rachel also advised a U.S.-based investor to acquire multiple offices and retail companies that use company-type collective investment vehicles in both the United States and Korea. Rachel has extensive experience representing clients from the healthcare, K-beauty, and technology sectors in all aspects of U.S. Immigration Laws, including, but not limited to, obtaining temporary and permanent visas for foreign professionals, multi-national executives, investors, entertainers, and religious workers. Rachel also represents individuals in various family-based immigration filings and deportation (defense in removal) proceedings. In addition, Rachel Yoo helps clients navigate complicated status maintenance issues, consular processing of visas, waivers of the foreign residence requirement, and other citizenship matters.