Eun Joo Hwang

Eun Joo Hwang’s practice focuses on broad range of domestic and cross-border antitrust and competition issues, including antitrust clearance, non-merger antitrust investigations, antitrust litigation, and antitrust counseling.

She has assisted clients through all stages of the merger review process, antitrust risk assessments, including negotiation of antitrust provisions in transaction agreements, Hart-Scott-Rodino Act compliance, multi-jurisdictional filings, and Second Request investigations before the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission. She has represented clients in complex antitrust conduct investigation and litigation matters from discovery, witness preparation, motion practice, to settlement strategy. Eun Joo has also guided clients through various topics of antitrust compliance, including advising on competition-related aspects of business arrangements and establishing internal antitrust policies, procedures, and trainings.

Eun Joo has experience working on complex cross-border transactions in industries including financial services, transportation, consumer products, energy, life sciences, and technology.

During law school, she served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Timothy C. Batten of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. She also has experience as a court-appointed mediator, having mediated more than a hundred cases of dispossessory actions in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia.

Eun Joo joined the firm in 2025. Before joining Cleary, she was an associate at a large global law firm, where her practice focused on merger clearance, antitrust investigations, litigation, and antitrust counseling.