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Jiyoung LIM
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Jiyoung Lim is an associate in the Seoul office of Lee & Ko and a member of the firm's Antitrust & Competition Department.
Ms. Lim’s practice focuses on the Korea Fair Trade Commission (the “KFTC”) investigation, civil, criminal and administrative antitrust litigation and related disputes. In addition, Ms. Lim has experience providing clients with general consultations regarding antitrust/competition law, including mergers, corporate governance, and general corporate consultations.
Ms. Lim advises clients on complex cases involving all areas of antitrust/competition law, including abuse of market dominance, unfair trade practice, cartel, and M&A. In addition, Ms. Lim has experience in sector-specific economic laws including but not limited to, Franchise law, Agency law, Retail Business law, Subcontract law, and Advertising law. Ms. Lim provides her clients with expertise in subject matters spanning abuse of market dominance to unfair trade practices and cartel (collusion) cases in the fields of online platforms, information technology (IT), patents, and pharmaceutical technology.
Ms. Lim’s practice focuses on the Korea Fair Trade Commission (the “KFTC”) investigation, civil, criminal and administrative antitrust litigation and related disputes. In addition, Ms. Lim has experience providing clients with general consultations regarding antitrust/competition law, including mergers, corporate governance, and general corporate consultations.
Ms. Lim advises clients on complex cases involving all areas of antitrust/competition law, including abuse of market dominance, unfair trade practice, cartel, and M&A. In addition, Ms. Lim has experience in sector-specific economic laws including but not limited to, Franchise law, Agency law, Retail Business law, Subcontract law, and Advertising law. Ms. Lim provides her clients with expertise in subject matters spanning abuse of market dominance to unfair trade practices and cartel (collusion) cases in the fields of online platforms, information technology (IT), patents, and pharmaceutical technology.
Representative Cases
- Ms. Lim's experience includes representing:
- An intervenor, a multinational chipset manufacturer, in a litigation for revocation of the KFTC’s correction orders on Qualcomm’s abuse of market dominance.
- Intervenors, global shipbuilders, in a litigation for revocation of the KFTC’s correction orders on the abuse of market dominance of a French Engineering company.
- Naver corp. in an alleged abuse of market dominance case.
- A global car manufacturer in consulting antitrust issues with connectivity service.
- A global pharmaceutical company in an alleged cartel case in the generic market.
- A Chinese state-owned company in an alleged cartel case in the global container liner market.
- A major maritime & inland transportation company in a cartel case.
- A major cable manufacturer in a KFTC investigation involving alleged acts of illegitimate support.
- A major convenience store franchisor in a KFTC investigation into an alleged violation of the Franchise Act.
- A global construction machine manufacturer in a KFTC investigation involving the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act (“MRFTA”), and the Agency Act.
- A major ATM/CD manufacturer in a complex civil cartel litigation.
- A major hypermarket operators in a civil litigation involving alleged violations of the MRFTA.
Education
| 2020 | Seoul National University, School of Law - Ph.D. candidate in Economic Law |
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| 2017 | Seoul National University, School of Law - J.D. |
| 2014 | Seoul National University, College of Social Science - B.A. in Economics |
Languages
| Korean and English |
Publications / Presentations / ETC
- Lectured on “Antitrust Regulation in Korea” at Seoul National University, November (2022)
- Presented on “Online Platform Regulation” in a seminar for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, October (2022)
- Inseok Lee, Seung-Ho Choi & Jiyoung Lim, Guidelines for Corporate Antitrust Compliance: Focusing on the U.S. and the EU cases, Business Finance Law (BFL), Vol. 113, May 2022
- Certification of Completion, Course on Arbitrations by the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board and Korean Women Lawyers Association, April 2022
- Jiwon Kang & Jiyoung Lim, The Accepted Scope of Self-Preferencing in the Digital Market under the Current Competition Law Paradigm: A Comparative Law Perspective, Journal of Korean Competition Law, Vol. 44, September 2021
- Jong-Youn Han & Jiyoung Lim, The Meaning and Scope of the Right to Access Information Gathered by the Korea Fair Trade Commission under the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act: On Supreme Court Decision No.2015Du44028 (dated December 27, 2018), Journal of Competition, Vol. 203, May 2020
- Jiyoung Lim, Unilateral Refusal to Deal under the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act, Korean Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 17-1, April 2020
- Jiyoung Lim, Regulation of Exclusionary Abuse in the Era of Big Platforms: On “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox”, Korean Lawyers Association Journal, Vol. 69-1, February 2020
- Presented on ““Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” by Lina M. Khan and its Implications” in Gwanak Economic Law Society seminar, September 2019
- Jiyoung Lim, EU Case Law Studies on SEP Infringement Claim Injunctions: The Before & After of the Huawei v. ZTE Decision, Law & Technology, Vol. 14-3, May 2018
