Lee & Ko

• Premier full-service law firm in Korea
• Founded in 1977, and comprising more than 880 professionals, organized into 8 practice groups with 40 specialty teams
• One-stop service for all legal needs, based on efficient collaboration among highly specialized team
• Emphasis on responsiveness and practical solutions
• 8 major practice groups:
  (i) corporate and M&A
  ii) banking, finance and securities
  (iii) litigation (both civil and criminal) and international arbitration
  (iv) tax and customs
  (v) antitrust and competition
  (vi) labour and employment
  (vii) intellectual property
  (viii) white-collar crime
• 40 specialised teams: Within the firm’s 8 major practice groups there are approximately 40 highly specialised teams of legal professionals including the following: anti-corruption and FCPA; antitrust and competition; aviation; banking; bankruptcy, insolvency and corporate restructuring; capital markets and securities; class actions and consumer claims; construction; consumer goods and services; corporate and M&A; corporate governance; derivatives; dispute resolution; energy; entertainment; environment; finance (acquisition finance, asset finance, project finance, structured finance); foreign direct investment; healthcare; industry and manufacturing; infrastructure; insurance; intellectual property; internal investigations; international practice (Chinese, European, Japanese practice); international trade; investment funds; labour and employment; maritime and shipping; overseas investment; private equity and venture capital; privatisation; product liability; real estate; regulatory compliance; tax and customs (tax consulting, audits, dispute resolution, transfer pricing); technology, media and telecommunications; and white-collar crime.

Recognition and Awards

• Asia IP Awards 2024
  - Korea Trademark Prosecution Firm of the Year
  - Korea Patent Contentious Firm of the Year
• ALB Korea Law Awards 2024
  - Energy and Resources Law Firm of the Year
  - Litigation Law Firm of the Year
  - Project Finance Deal of the Year
• Asialaw Awards 2024
  - South Korea Firm of the Year
  - Competition/Antitrust Firm of the Year
  - Regulatory Firm of the Year
  - Asia Firm of the Year
  - Impact Deal and Case of the Year
• Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Awards 2024
  - Commercial and Transactions Firm of the Year
  - Labour and Employment Firm of the Year
  - Impact Case Winners
• Asia Business Law Journal (ABLJ) Korea Law Firm Awards 2023
  - Law firm of the year
  - Best Overall Law Firm
  - Arbitration & ADR
  - Banking & finance
  - Capital markets
  - Compliance & corporate governance
  - Corporate & commercial
  - Data compliance & cyber security
  - Energy & natural resources
  - Entertainment & sports
  - ESG
  - Fintech
  - Inbound investment
  - Outbound investment
  - Infrastructure & project finance
  - Insolvency & restructuring
  - Litigation
  - Mergers & acquisitions
  - Patent litigation
  - Patent prosecution
  - Private equity & venture capital
  - Structured finance & securitisation
  - Taxation
  - Technology, media & telecommunications
  - Trademark litigation
• ALB Korea Law Awards 2023
  - Litigation Law Firm of the Year
  - Regulatory and Compliance Law Firm of the Year
  - Equity Market Deal of the Year
  - M&A Deal of the Year
  - Technology, Media and Telecommunications Deal of the Year
• Asialaw Awards 2023
  - Asia Firm of the Year
  - South Korea Firm of the Year
  - Banking and Finance Firm of the Year
  - Aviation and Shipping Firm of the Year
  - Energy Firm of the Year, Impact Deal of the Year
  - Impact Deal of the Year
• MIP Asia-Pacific Awards 2023
  - South Korea Copyright & Design Firm of the Year
• Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Awards 2023
  - South Korea Firm of the Year
  - Construction Firm of the Year
  - Impact Case Winners
• Chambers Asia Pacific and Greater China Region Awards 2023
  - South Korea National Law Firm of the Year
• Asia Legal Awards 2023
  - Cross-border M&A Deal of the Year ($2 billion+)
  - Transport Firm of the Year
• Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Awards 2020
  - Tax Firm of the Year