Gene-Oh (Gene) Kim > Kim & Chang > Seoul, South Korea > Lawyer Profile
Kim & Chang Offices
39 SAJIK-RO 8-GIL
JONGNO-GU
SEOUL 03170
South Korea
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Gene-Oh (Gene) Kim
Work Department
Antitrust & Competition; Mergers & Acquisitions; Corporate Governance & Shareholder Disputes; Insurance; Foreign Direct Investment; Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense; Private Equity; Europe; France and French Speaking Countries; Germany; Shareholder Activism; Corporate Finance; Corporation Law; Corporate & M&A Litigation
Career
Gene-Oh (Gene) Kim is an attorney at Kim & Chang’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice and Antitrust & Competition Practice. Mr. Kim is recognized as one of the pre-eminent M&A lawyers in Korea and has advised on high-profile transactions. He has advised numerous companies around the world – including industrial, banking, insurance and private equity clients – in a wide variety of cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions transactions. Mr. Kim counts among his clients some of the market leaders in their respective industries.
Mr. Kim’s areas of focus extend to merger control and other competition law matters, which help provide comprehensive and effective advice to his clients for corporate transactions. He is a renowned antitrust expert and advises corporate clients on a wide range of antitrust law matters, with a particular focus on abuse of market dominance, cartels and merger controls. Mr. Kim represents many leading multinational and domestic companies in government investigations and litigations, and often brings about excellent results through highly innovative and effective approaches, employing both creative arguments and persuasive communication abilities. Mr. Kim also represents a broad range of foreign companies in criminal defense cases, corporate investigations, and compliance and regulatory audit matters.
Mr. Kim received his law degree from Seoul National University, College of Law in 1995 and graduated from the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea in 1997. He also received his LL.M from Harvard Law School in 2006. In addition to his experience in Korea, Mr. Kim was a visiting attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell’s New York office in 2006 and 2007. He is a member of the Bar of the Republic of Korea and the Bar of the State of New York.
Languages
Korean and English
Memberships
Admitted to bar, Korea, 1997; New York, 2007
Education
Harvard Law School (LL.M., 2006)
Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (1997)
College of Law, Seoul National University (LL.B., 1995)
Lawyer Rankings
South Korea > Antitrust and competition: local firms
Domestic and international clients from industries such as ICT, medical and pharmaceutical, automotive and aviation trust the sizeable team at Kim & Chang for assistance with issues such as merger control, international cartel and abuse of market dominance. International cartel cases and foreign-to-foreign mergers is another area of longstanding strength. Youngjin Jung co-heads the practice; his expertise and the firm’s reach has recently been demonstrated by the key role Jung has played coordinating the global merger filing in several jurisdictions for Korean Air’s acquisition of Asiana Airlines. Gene-Oh (Gene) Kim completes the leadership team and counts illegal collusion, abuse of market dominance and unfair trade practices as core areas of expertise. Foreign attorneys Brian Tae-Hyun Chung and Jung-Won Hyun are key contacts for merger filings for inbound and outbound M&A transactions and merger control cases involving remedies issued by the KFTC, respectively. Representing domestic and online platforms in KFTC investigations stands out as an area of recent activity for Kyung Min Koh. Min-Ho Lee is praised for his ‘good knowledge of fair trade’. Hemi Lee is a further name to note.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition: local firms
- Banking and finance: local firms
- Capital markets: local firms
- Corporate and M&A: local firms
- Dispute resolution: local firms
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms
- Insurance: local firms
- Intellectual property: local firms
- International arbitration
- Labour and employment: local firms
- Projects and energy: local firms
- Real estate: local firms
- Regulatory: compliance and investigations: local firms
- Shipping: local firms
- Tax: local firms
- TMT: local firms