On July 1, 2021, the Bell announced the M&A legal advisory ranking for the first half of 2021 and reported that “Lee & Ko has handled the largest number of advisory transactions and has successfully outranked the law firm ranked third place by a double score, cementing its position as the big two, with Kim & Chang”.
Moreover, the Bell commented that “during the first half of this year, Lee & Ko advised on the acquisition and sale of key platform companies leading to an impressive level of achievements”, and that “Lee & Ko provided legal advice to Job Korea, which is a recruitment platform involved in a secondary deal between PEFs and to both the acquiring party and the seller of W Concept, a women’s fashion platform acquired by Shinsegae Group”.