Chul Ho Kim

Practice Areas

Antitrust & Competition

Cartel

Abuse of Market Dominance

Unfair Trade Practices

Merger Filings

Unfair Affiliate Transactions

Regulation on Conglomerates ∙ Holding Companies

Healthcare

Professional Memberships

Admitted to bar, Korea (1999)

Publications

Regulation of Information Exchange under Amended Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act, Journal of Competition (co-author), 2021; Korea Chapter, Comparative Legal Guide: Merger Control (4th Edition), The Legal 500 (co-author), 2019; "Applicable Laws and Calculation of Relevant Sales in Bid Rigging Cases," The 9th Economic Law Case Study, Academy of Economic Law Case Study (co-author), 2015; "Recent Decisions in the United States, Europe and Korea regarding Reverse Payment Agreement," Law & Technology (co-author), 2013; "Enforcement of Competition Law in the South Korean pharmaceutical industry," Practical Law Company (co-author), 2013; "Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act (Article 12: Merger Control Filing)," LAWnB online annotation book, 2013; "Impact of the South Korea-US Free Trade Agreement on the Korean pharmaceutical industry," Practical Law Company (co-author), 2012; "Unity and Number of Breaches of Fair Trade Law," The 7th Economic Law Case Study, Academy of Economic Law Case Study, 2011

Work Highlights

[Cartels]

Handled the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) investigation and administrative litigations on cartels of steel companies with respect to purchase of steel scrap

Handled the KFTC investigation and administrative litigations regarding cartels of transportation companies with respect to transportation services

Handled the KFTC investigation and administrative litigations regarding cartels of auto-part manufacturers

Handled the KFTC investigation of bid-rigging acts by construction companies in the Korea Gas Corporation’s bid for LNG storage tanks

Handled the KFTC investigation of cartels of seven manufacturers of double insulation pipes

Handled the KFTC investigation of bid rigging acts by 14 enterprisers in KEPCO’s bid of watt-hour meters

Handled the KFTC investigation and administrative litigations regarding bid-rigging acts by construction companies in the bid for turn-key construction for the four-river project

Handled the KFTC investigation of bid-rigging acts by construction companies in the bid for construction of Daegu Urban Railway

Handled the KFTC investigation of bid-rigging acts by construction companies in the bid for construction of Honam High Speed Railway

Handled the KFTC investigation of cartels of 20 securities companies with respect to small claims

[Business Combination]

Handled review of business combination between the world’s first and third largest manufacturers of semiconductor equipment

Handled review of business combination in acquisition of St. Jude Medical by Abbott

Handled review of business combination in acquisition of Gyeonggi East Broadcasting by CNM

Handled review of business combination in acquisition of Carrefour by E-land

Handled review of business combination in acquisition of RealNetworks’ video codec patent by the world’s largest semiconductor chip manufacturer

Handled review of business combination in acquisition of InterDigital’s wireless communications patent by the world’s largest semiconductor chip manufacturer

[Abuse of Market Dominance / Unfair Trade Practices]

Handled the KFTC investigation and administrative litigations regarding Qualcomm’s abuse of market dominance

Handled the KFTC investigation and administrative litigation on the abuse of market dominance by the world’s largest manufacturer of microprocessors for personal computers

Handled the KFTC investigation of unfair trade practices by Nike

Handled the KFTC investigation and administrative litigation regarding unfair practices of attracting customers by pharmaceutical companies

Handled the KFTC investigation of unfair trade practices by Merial Korea

[Regulation of Conglomerates & Internal Trading]

Handled the KFTC investigation of internal trading of Samsung Group

Handled the KFTC investigation of internal trading of Hite Jinro Group

Handled the KFTC investigation of internal trading of LS Group

Handled the KFTC investigation of internal trading of Hanwha Group

Handled the KFTC investigation of internal trading of Hanjin Group

Handled the KFTC investigation of internal trading of SK Group

Handled the KFTC investigation of internal trading of Dongwon Group

Languages Spoken

Korean and English

Experience

2003-present

Yoon & Yang LLC

2020-present

Director, Korea Competition Law Association

2020-present

Vice President, Asia-Pacific Competition Community

2013-present

Member, Subcontract Price Adjustment Advisory Board, Korea Fair Trade Mediation Agency

2010-present

Auditor, Korea Blood Disease & Cancer Association

2017

International Director, Korea Competition Law Association

2015

Examiner, the 4th Bar Examination (Economic Law)

1999-03

Yoon & Partners

Clients

Qualcomm, British America Tobacco Korea, Levi Strauss, sanofi-aventis Korea, IBM Korea, Intel Korea, Samsung SDI, Samsung Engineering,

Kumho Petrochemical, Hite Jinro, Kakao Mobility, Yuhan Corporation

Education

Awards