Hogan Lovells US LLP

Global Regulatory

Partner

Andrew Lee is a seasoned antitrust counselor who represents clients on all facets of U.S. antitrust matters and disputes. Mr. Lee began his career at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) during the Clinton administration, where he helped initiate several high-profile antitrust enforcement actions and assisted the Commission's leadership in formulating broad competition law enforcement policies and agenda.

Mr. Lee represents parties before the U.S. competition agencies — the FTC and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice — in criminal grand jury investigations and civil investigations of pricing conduct, and other potential antitrust violations. Notably, in many cases Mr. Lee also acts as coordinating counsel for his clients in investigations of multinational corporations in “multi-forum” cases (such as EU and other competition agencies in Asia) that involve parallel, simultaneous government investigations and multiple civil actions. Last but not least, he also represents clients in antitrust civil litigation that either arises from parallel criminal investigations or alleges independent antitrust violations.

A significant part of Mr. Lee's practice in the past decade has focused on advising his clients (particular those headquartered in Asia-Pacific) in high-stakes criminal antitrust investigations. He has helped clients negotiate successful leniency applications with the Antitrust Division in several high-profile cartel investigations, and is especially seasoned at counseling clients on preventing, detecting, mitigating, and aggressively responding to allegations of criminal antitrust conduct. At his prior firm, Mr. Lee was also trial counsel to Stolt-Nielsen in its landmark action against the Antitrust Division, which revoked Stolt's prior amnesty application. The case remains the only time a court has enforced an antitrust amnesty agreement against the Division.

In addition, Mr. Lee is regularly involved in antitrust counseling and litigation arising from U.S. and cross-border mergers and joint ventures. He advises clients on merger control filings for cross-border transactions and often leads their HSR and international filings and related merger clearance efforts. Mr. Lee is also active in antitrust counseling. His practice covers such work as conducting antitrust compliance audits, analyzing liability exposure, and recommending corrective action, as well as creating and presenting in-house training programs for client legal departments and business units. He is routinely called upon to administer and strengthen antitrust compliance programs for many of his clients in Asia-Pacific.

Lastly, Mr. Lee also co-leads the firm’s Korea working group. Fully leveraging the global coverage and diverse practice capabilities of Hogan Lovells, Mr. Lee has provided comprehensive advice for his clients on all aspects of expanding their global business operations. In recent years, Mr. Lee has counseled his key global clients on such mission-critical projects as: international trade disputes and arbitrations, high-stakes IP disputes and settlement negotiations, strategic acquisitions or capital investments in U.S. and Europe, and export control/sanctions compliance advice, just to name a few.

English, Korean

J.D., University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, 1999B.S., magna cum laude, Johns Hopkins University (magna cum laude), 1995