Gee Hong Kim

Practice Areas

Competition/Antitrust

Career

Mr. Gee Hong Kim heads the Antitrust & Competition Group at Jipyong.

He is touted as one of the nation’s top experts in competition law and is critically acclaimed as one of the most accomplished professionals of his generation. In April 2020, he was nominated by the Korea Fair Trade Commission to receive a Presidential Commendation for his contributions to Korea’s market economy and fair trade practices. Mr. Kim was the first-ever attorney at a major law firm to be awarded the highest commendation.

Mr. Kim is frequently sought after by major corporations to take on the most complex and challenging cases. His most notable successes include representing the KFTC in the dismissal of Qualcomm’s objection to one of the KFTC’s largest fines in history and clearing Intel’s USD 16.7 billion acquisition of Altera before the KFTC.

Professional Memberships

Korean Bar; New York Bar

Personal

Seoul National University, Research Program for Legal Specialists, Corporate Governance Structure (2007);

Columbia Law School (LL.M., 2006);

Seoul National University (LL.B., Ranked first in the nation in National College Entrance Exam, 1996)