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June 30, 2026
Yonhap Infomax reported that Lee & Ko ranked second in the legal advisory market for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the first half of 2026, recording deals worth KRW 15.2443 trillion. According to Yonhap Infomax, the firm's performance was largely driven by advising the French company, Air Liquide, in its acquisition of DIG Airgas. It added that Lee & Ko further boosted its deal value by advising the seller in EQT Partners' acquisition of a stake in Douzone Bizon and the buyer in SK Gas' transfer of shares in Ulsan GPS.

June 30, 2026
An interview with Ho Joon Moon, Managing Partner of Lee & Ko who leads the firm’s M&A group, was featured in EDAILY. It noted, “Throughout Lee & Ko's history, the firm has pioneered innovative transaction structures that later became market standards, citing LG Group's holding company conversion and the acquisition of Osstem Implant as examples.” Mr. Moon highlighted the firm's competitive strength in its accumulated team-based expertise and its ability to establish new precedents. He also projected that, despite growing uncertainty in the M&A market due to regulatory changes such as proposed amendments to the Commercial Act, new deal opportunities will continue to emerge.

On June 29, 2026, comments by Yoon Seong-min, an attorney at Lee & Ko, were featured in the Weekly Korea Housing Economic News. Following a court ruling that held a resident liable for nearly 100 million won in damages for defamation after raising unsubstantiated rebate allegations during an urban renewal project, Attorney Yoon stated, "This judgment clarifies that while monitoring and criticism during the urban renewal process should be respected, spreading false information without basis entails legal responsibility." He added, "This is a significant ruling that serves as a wake-up call against the repeated, indiscriminate raising of suspicions at urban renewal sites."

On June 21, 2026, the Korea Economic Daily reported that "as a large-scale fair trade investigation unit is expected to be established within the newly created investigation agency against serious crimes, major law firms are simultaneously expanding their competition law team organizations," introducing Lee & Ko's Antitrust and Competition Group as one such example. The Korea Economic noted that "Lee & Ko has reinforced its 'former official lineup' by recruiting Attorney Giusung Oh this month — a former judge who also served as a Non-Standing Commissioner of the KFTC — following the recruitment of Attorney Min-Ho Lee, a former KFTC official, earlier this year."

On June 10, 2026, Edaily reported the news of Attorney Giusung Oh joining Lee & Ko. With the addition of Attorney Giusung Oh, former General Counsel and Non-Standing Commissioner of the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), Lee & Ko is now able to provide more sophisticated and substantive legal services to businesses amid an increasingly complex government regulatory environment and a strengthened fair trade order.

May 27, 2026 
Lee & Ko’s M&A Group was featured in Korea Herald Business. Korea Herald Business reported that “the industry views Lee & Ko as having built a balanced track record not only with strategic investors (SIs) from large conglomerates, but also in transactions involving domestic and international private equity funds (PEFs).” It also noted that “the firm’s ability to deploy manpower steadily even when multiple large-scale transactions are underway simultaneously is considered one of its key competitive strengths.”
 

May 27, 2026
An interview with Lee & Ko’s attorneys Hee Woong Lee and Yi Jun Chang, along with foreign attorney Do Kyeom Kim, was featured in Korea Herald Business. The publication described them as “key players in the M&A market who bring deals to a close by designing structures that can be agreed upon at the negotiation table,” and highlighted in detail their respective professional achievements and track records.
 

On April 27, 2026, Electronic Times reported on Attorney Eunwoo (Vera) Lee of Lee & Ko in connection with her participation in a forum. At the 1st 2026 Copyright Protection Future Forum, held by the Korea Copyright Protection Agency on the 23rd, she stated that access blocking should be used only in limited cases where warnings, takedown requests, or suspension of transmission are insufficient to protect rights, and that emergency blocking should be permitted only when all three requirements—clear infringement, urgency, and subsidiarity—are satisfied.

On April 26, 2026, Chosun Biz reported that major law firms are accelerating efforts to serve the gaming industry by strengthening their expertise in intellectual property and regulatory compliance. The article introduced the gaming team at Lee & Ko, noting that it is led by Attorney Jaewoo Kwak, with Attorneys Tae Joo Kim and Jongwook Kim also on the team. It added that Attorney Kwak majored in industrial engineering as an undergraduate and later earned a master’s degree in intellectual property law.

April 26, 2026.
The Korea Economic Daily reported that major law firms are reorganizing their dedicated teams as prosecutors move decisively to launch ex officio investigations into antitrust cases such as cartels, mobilizing their full direct investigative powers. The newspaper highlighted the Antitrust & Competition Group of Lee & Ko, noting: “Lee & Ko, centered on attorneys Yong Seok Ahn, Hwan Jeong and Jeong-Ho Sun, is intensifying its focus on the needs of platform companies by adding expertise in merger control and monopoly regulation advisory work, together with professionals such as former Fair Trade Commission standing commissioner Seok Ho Kim.”
 

On April 22, 2026, The Korea Economic Daily reported on the strengthening of Lee & Ko's financial regulatory practice. The article noted that Attorney Sangrok Shin, formerly head of the Capital Markets Investigation Division at the Financial Services Commission (FSC), joined the firm earlier this year, followed last month by Advisor Moonseok Chae, who spent six years in key positions at the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), including as head of the Banking Team in the Sanctions Review Department and Deputy Director of the General Affairs Team. The article further noted that Attorney Seohee Han, a specialist in virtual assets and digital finance, has also joined the firm, highlighting how Lee & Ko is significantly expanding its capabilities to address the rapidly evolving financial regulatory landscape, particularly in the virtual assets and digital finance space.

On April 22, 2026, The Korea Economic Daily featured an interview with Managing Partner Sanggon Kim of Lee & Ko. In the interview, Mr. Kim articulated his strategic vision to reposition the firm as a comprehensive consulting practice, with a revenue target of KRW 500 billion for the current fiscal year. Having made history in 2024 as the first Korean law firm to surpass KRW 400 billion in annual revenue, Lee & Ko sustained its growth momentum by recording KRW 430.9 billion last year. Amid heightened demand for regulatory compliance services and a recovering M&A market, Mr. Kim confidently projected a growth rate of approximately 15% for this year and further emphasized that Lee & Ko is poised to transition into a full-service consulting firm through its distinctive “one team” approach, a model designed to dissolve the conventional silos between litigation and advisory services.