Sanghoon Shin
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025
Band 2 : Competition/Antitrust
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About
Provided by Sanghoon Shin
Practice Areas
He has advised on various antitrust and consumer protection cases, such as merger filings, cartels, unfair trade practices, abuses of market-dominant position and unfair inter-affiliate supports. In particular, he has focused on providing antitrust-related legal services to foreign companies.
Career
Worked with the Korea Fair Trade Commission for 9 years, in merger review and international cooperation. Since joining Bae, Kim & Lee in 2007, he has provided advice on various fair trade cases, such as mergers and acquisitions, cartels, unfair trade practices and unfair supports especially to many foreign companies. A frequent speaker and lecturer at antitrust-related seminars and conferences.
Professional Memberships
New York State Bar Association
Publications
Lexology Getting the Deal Through – Merger Control – Korea Chapter (Co-author, Law Business Research, 2014-2019, 2021); Chambers Global Practice Guides: Merger Control – Korea Chapter (Co-author, Chambers and Partners, 2021); S&M International Series: Merger Control 3rd Ed. (Thomson Reuters, 2017)
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Shin Sanghoon is a senior foreign attorney at Bae, Kim & Lee. He leverages extensive domestic and international experience in the antitrust field, gained through his former tenures at the KFTC, the US DOJ Antitrust Division and the US FTC.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Sanghoon Shin is very responsive and provides deep analysis."
"Sanghoon Shin is very responsive and provides deep analysis."
Articles, highlights and press releases
2 items provided by Bae, Kim & Lee LLC
KFTC Proposes Enactment of Fair Transactions in Online Intermediary Services Act
On September 28, 2020, the Korea Fair Trade Commission (“KFTC”) published a bill to introduce the Act on Fair Transactions in Online Intermediary Services (the “Act”), which will be open for public comments for a period of 40 days. BKL provides a summary of the bill as follows.
BKL Named “Competition & Antitrust Firm of the Year” by Asialaw
Bae, Kim & Lee LLC (“BKL”) was named as the “Competition & Antitrust Firm of the Year” at the Asialaw Asia-Pacific Legal Practice Awards 2017 at the JW Marriott Hotel in Hong Kong on November 28, 2017.
KFTC Proposes Enactment of Fair Transactions in Online Intermediary Services Act
On September 28, 2020, the Korea Fair Trade Commission (“KFTC”) published a bill to introduce the Act on Fair Transactions in Online Intermediary Services (the “Act”), which will be open for public comments for a period of 40 days. BKL provides a summary of the bill as follows.
BKL Named “Competition & Antitrust Firm of the Year” by Asialaw
Bae, Kim & Lee LLC (“BKL”) was named as the “Competition & Antitrust Firm of the Year” at the Asialaw Asia-Pacific Legal Practice Awards 2017 at the JW Marriott Hotel in Hong Kong on November 28, 2017.
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