Yong Kwon is an experienced accountant and consultant specialized in exit planning, valuation consulting and M&A transaction advisory services to various clients, ranging from Korean public companies to family-owned businesses in diversified industries. He has provided both buy-side and sell-side advisory to assist clients in M&A transactions. Yong has performed the valuation consulting services including business valuations, Merger and Acquisition (M&A) valuations, and purchase price allocation analyses. Through his experiences including valuation, accounting, taxation, M&A and financing, he consults business value growth and personnel financial planning.

Prior to LEK Partners, he was a director in audit & accounting service of Warren Averett LLC (“Warrne” or “WA”), a top 30 CPA firm in U.S. He led Korean Practice, which provided customized and comprehensive consulting, accounting, assurance and tax services to Korean companies and individuals who invested on the U.S. market.

Yong started his career with the Korea Asset Management Corporation (KAMCO), a quasi-governmental organization that acquires and resolves financial institutions’ non-performing loans, restructures businesses, provides support for the credit recovery of the financially stricken, manages state-owned properties, and settles overdue taxes. His background has built his special expertise in corporate accounting, assurance and finance.

Yong resides in San Diego, CA with his wife and their two children.