Miji Lee

Competition/Antitrust

Miji Lee is a partner at Lee & Ko and advises clients on all matters relating to antitrust and competition laws of South Korea. Since joining Lee & Ko in 2010, Ms. Lee has represented numerous cases involving cartel investigations, merger filings, abuse of market dominance, unfair trade practices, and antitrust litigation before the KFTC and Korean courts. She has handled various international cartel cases such as FX, autos, liners cartels, and also has been involved in many international and complex merger filing cases.

Korean Bar Association, Seoul Bar Association

A Study on the Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on the Labor Market, Research Report for the Fair Trade Academic Research Support Program of the Fair Trade Mediation Agency (Co-author, 2023);

The Impact of Institutional Investors' Common Ownership on Competition, Journal of Competition, Vol. 200 (Co-author, 2019);

Support of Holding Companies for Their Subsidiaries: From the Perspective of the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act and the Criminal Act (Co-author, 2018);

Characteristics of Digital Markets and the Application of Competition Law: Theory and Case Analysis, 2018 LEC Research Report (Co-author, 2018)

Seoul National University (LLB, 2002); Judicial Research & Training Institute, Supreme Court of Korea (2010); University of California, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (LL.M., 2016); Visiting Lawyer, Linklaters LLP London Office (2016)

Top 100 Women in Litigation

Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific

2025

Stand-out Lawyers

Thomson Reuters

2025

Litigation Star (Competition/Antitrust Area)

Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific, 2024-2025

Rising Star

Legal Times

2024

Future Star (Competition/Antitrust Area)

Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific

2023