Kim & Chang

Antitrust & Competition; Foreign Direct Investment; Mergers & Acquisitions; Life Sciences and Healthcare; Corporation Law

Kyung Yul Lee is an attorney at Kim & Chang. He practices in a wide range of corporate areas, with a focus on antitrust and competition, corporate governance, foreign direct investment, and mergers & acquisitions.

Mr. Lee advises clients on competition law issues arising from their daily operations and mergers and acquisitions transactions. Throughout his career, Mr. Lee has been actively involved in numerous high-profile competition cases in Korea, including investigations by the Korea Fair Trade Commission (“KFTC”) into violations of competition law. He has also represented clients in their appeal of the KFTC’s decisions before the Korean courts.

Mr. Lee also regularly advises the firm’s clients in the IT and Life Sciences & Healthcare industries and multinational companies in their acquisition and consolidation of local affiliates and joint ventures with local conglomerates.

Mr. Lee received an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 2014, where he was the recipient of three Dean’s Scholar Prizes, including for Antitrust Law and Economics - US. He graduated from the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea in 2005 and received an LL.B. from Seoul National University in 2003. He is admitted to the Korea bar.

Korean and English

Admitted to bar, Korea, 2005; New York, 2018

Harvard Law School (LL.M., 2014) Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (2005) College of Law, Seoul National University (LL.B., 2003)