Ji Yeon SONG - Kim & Chang

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Jiyeon Song is an attorney at Kim & Chang. She practices in a wide range of corporate areas with a focus on antitrust & competition and international trade. She has extensive experience in advising multinational pharmaceutical, medical device, food, cosmetics and tobacco companies as well as global fashion companies.

Since 2011, Ms. Song has represented multinational companies in their high profile competition cases in Korea, including Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC)’s investigations and appeal of the KFTC’s decisions before the Korean courts. She advises clients on a comprehensive range of antitrust issues, such as abuse of market dominance, merger controls, cartel, unfair trade practices and labeling and advertising.

Ms. Song has also successfully represented the Korean government in WTO disputes and defended Korean conglomerates at all stages of trade remedy investigations conducted by foreign governments, including that of the U.S.

Ms. Song was awarded "Asia Women in Business Law Awards (International Trade Lawyer of the Year)" by Euromoney in 2022 and “Client Choice Award - Competition” by Lexology in 2021 and was selected to participate in “Korea’s Emerging Female Trade Leaders Program” hosted by Asia Society Policy Institute.

Ms. Song received an LL.B. from Seoul National University in 2007 and graduated from the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea in 2011. She was admitted to the Korean bar.

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Experience

Director, Korean Society of International Economic Law (2019-Present)

Kim & Chang (2011-Present)

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Abuse of Dominance

Represented a global mobile technology company in a court appeal against the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC)'s disposition on abuse of dominance.
Represented a global platform company in the KFTC’s investigation on abuse of dominance.

International & Domestic Cartels

Represented a global airline company in a court appeal against the KFTC's disposition on international cartel.
Represented a global auto parts company in the KFTC’s cartel investigation and subsequent appeal litigations.

Unfair Trade Practices

Represented a global pharmaceutical company in the KFTC's investigation of unfair trade practices
Represented a global insurance company in the KFTC's investigation of unfair trade practices
Represented a global cosmetic company in dispute with a domestic distributor.
Represented a global food company in dispute with a domestic distributor.

Merger Control

Represented a global biotech company in its acquisition of biopharma business of another global biotech company.
Represented a global life science company in its acquisition of another global life science company.

Labeling and Advertising

Represented a global auto company in the KFTC’s investigation of unfair labeling and advertisement and subsequent appeal litigations.

International Trade

Represented the Korean government in WTO disputes
Represented the Korean conglomerate companies in trade remedy investigations by the foreign governments
Represented a global chemical company and a global steel company in the anti-dumping investigations by the Korea Trade Commission

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Awards

Commendation from the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy (2022)
International Trade Lawyer of the Year, Asia Women in Business Law Awards (Euromoney, 2022)
Client Choice Awards - Competition (Lexology, 2021)

Publications/Activities

Data Industry White Paper - Data Industry and Legal Issues: Fair Trade (Korea Data Agency, 2024)
Year-in-Review 2023 (Co-author, ABA SIL International Antitrust Committee, 2023)
Recent Trend in Industry Injury Determination under U.S. Anti-dumping Investigations and its Implications, International Trade Law No.150 (Co-author, Ministry of Justice, 2021)

Education

UC Berkeley School of Law (Visiting Scholar, 2015)

Graduate School of Law, Seoul National University (Completed Coursework, International Investment Law, 2012)

Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (2011)

College of Law, Seoul National University (LL.B., 2007)

Tokyo University Exchange Program (2004-2005)

Qualifications

Admitted to bar, Korea, 2011

Languages

Korean, English and Japanese

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