Ms. Julie Shin is a member of Lee & Ko's Intellectual Property and Healthcare ꞏ Life Sciences Groups, specializing in cross-border transactions, litigation, international dispute resolution and regulatory compliance. She has extensive experience advising clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, chemical and consumer products industries, and is recognized as a business-savvy counsel with a practical, results-driven approach based on a keen understanding of clients’ business objectives.

Ms. Shin’s expertise covers all areas of intellectual property, including patent, trademark and trade secret analysis, litigation and dispute resolution; IP licensing, joint ventures, M&A, collaboration and other transactions and related due diligence; and IP management and development. In the pharmaceutical and medical fields, her expertise also extends to regulatory compliance and issues relating to regulatory approval, patent-approval linkage system and patent term extension.

Before joining Lee & Ko, Ms. Shin worked for a number of years at a prominent U.S. law firm and served as a senior legal counsel at Samsung Electronics, where she negotiated and managed numerous IP and technology transactions, including patent licensing and acquisitions from leading global companies as well as startups and prestigious research institutes and universities around the world, and led the company's IP team focusing on medical equipment and healthcare products.

With both in-house and law firm experience on a broad range of legal and business concerns across multiple industries, Ms. Shin efficiently guides clients in developing comprehensive business and legal strategies to achieve desirable outcomes.