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Suruyn KIM
Antitrust & Competition
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Suruyn Kim began her law practice at Shin&Kim and joined Lee&Ko in 2012. Her practice focuses on anti-trust and competition law matters, including investigation of merger review, cartel, abuse of market dominance and unfair practices, and antitrust litigation.
Ms. Kim also has been involved in abuse of market dominance case of which the abuse of intellectual property was the issue while working as foreign attorney in the Paris office of Allen&Overy LLP.
Ms. Kim also has been involved in abuse of market dominance case of which the abuse of intellectual property was the issue while working as foreign attorney in the Paris office of Allen&Overy LLP.
Education
| 2011 | Northwestern University School of Law - LL.M. |
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| 2005 | Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea |
| 2003 | Seoul National University, Graduate School of Law - LL.M. |
Work Experience
| 2012-Present | Lee & Ko |
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| 2011-2012 | Allen & Overy LLP Paris office |
| 2005-2012 | Shin & Kim |
Languages
| Korean, English and French |
Awards and Recognitions
| 2024 | Next generation Partners, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024 |
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| 2024 | Chambers Asia-Pacific 2024, Up and Coming |
| 2023 | The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023: Next generation Partners |
| 2022 | Who’s Who Legal: Korea 2022 |
| 2022 | Next generation Partners, Legal 500 |
| 2020 | Leading lawyer, antitrust and competition, Legal times |
Publications / Presentations / ETC
- Research on Fiduciary-out clause in M&A agreement (BFL Vol.20, 2006)
- Comparison of US and EU case in regard of loyalty rebate – especially on British Airways case (Study of Antitrust cases Vol. 6)
- Single Economic Entity and Bid-Rigging, Journal of Competition Vol. 191 (Co-author, 2017)
- Administrative Measures Subject to Appeal When Multiple Measures Are Imposed by the Korea Fair Trade Commission, Journal of Competition Vol. 189 (Co-author, 2016)
- Support of holding company to its subsidiaries: From the perspective of Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act and Criminal Act (Co-author, 2018)
- Panelist, “Merger Review of business combination between platforms” (Korea Competition Law Association, 2022)
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