On September 8, 2020, Legal Times selected Yong Seok Ahn, the managing partner of Lee & Ko as Korea’s Leading Lawyers for 2020, in the field of Antitrust & Competition.

Legal Times described Attorney Yong Seok Ahn as “one of the leading antitrust experts in Korea, who raised the status of Lee & Ko’s antitrust practice to ‘Tier 1’ level. He played an active role in various antitrust cases both in and out of Korea, including cartel, subcontracting, and abuse of market dominance cases, representing Samsung Electronics in obtaining the decision that Samsung’s patent infringement lawsuit against Apple was not in violation of the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act.”