Antitrust Advisory

Antitrust advisory covers corporate advisory across the full spectrum of competition and consumer protection law, including the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act (Fair Trade Act), the Subcontracting Act, the Large-Scale Distribution Business Act, the Franchise Business Act, and the Labeling and Advertising Act. As investigations by the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) and the imposition of corrective orders and surcharges have a profound impact on corporate management, proactive compliance is paramount.

PYEONG AN's antitrust team handles KFTC adjudication proceedings, responses to unfair trade practice investigations, analysis of abuse of market-dominant position issues, advisory on unfair collaborative acts (cartels), and compliance advisory on subcontracting and distribution regulations.

We proactively identify antitrust risks embedded in a company's day-to-day business practices, develop effective defense strategies when KFTC investigations arise, and provide seamless legal services through to administrative litigation challenging sanction dispositions.

We bring particular expertise to large business group regulations (prohibitions on cross-shareholding and circular shareholding, disclosure of large-scale internal transactions, etc.) and merger filing and review responses.