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Lee & Ko lawyers Sanggon Kim, Ho Joon Moon, Sung Min Kim, Jaewoo Kwak have been selected as ‘Korea Super 30 Lawyers 2023’ presented by ALB(Asian Legal Business) Magazine.
Mr. Sanggon Kim is currently the managing partner of Lee & Ko and an M&A expert in the areas of M&A and Corporate Governance. He has a high reputation as one of the experts who conducts the largest number M&A transactions in Korea. In particular, Mr. Kim also has established his position as a leading lawyer not only in cross-border M&A but also in the fields of hostile M&A and conglomerates’ restructuring into a holding company structure.
Mr. Ho Joon Moon is an expert corporate lawyer with extensive experience in the areas of M&A, Private Equity, Corporate governance, Foreign Investment, Anti-Corruption & Regulatory Compliance and Hostile Takeovers & Defense. Mr. Moon has also been selected ‘Asia’s Top 15 M&A Lawyers’ by ALB.
Mr. Sung Min Kim, who currently heads the Startups team at Lee & Ko, is a corporate lawyer specializing in the areas of M&A, Corporate Governance, Foreign Investment, FinTech, Startup, Personal Information Protection and Capital Market Regulation & Compliance. Mr. Kim has also been selected as the Next Generation Partners in the field of Corporate and M&A for four consecutive years by Legal 500, a global law firm evaluation media.
Mr. Jaewoo Kwak is a lawyer who has built his career in the field of Intellectual Property and is recognized for his excellent expertise not only in civil and criminal disputes over IP rights such as domestic patent, trademark, unfair competition, copyrights, trade secrets, design, domain names, employee invention, licensing and entertainment, but also in multiple international patent/ trade secrets disputes in U.S. Federal Court cases and ITC investigations, and in discovery task which has recently been in discussion for domestic adoption.
The ALB(Asian Legal Business), an Asia-Pacific law magazine published by Thomson Reuters, selects and present 30 lawyers with the most recommendations by clients in Korea based on the extensive clients’ survey results.