Kim & Chang

International Arbitration & Cross-Border Litigation

Shul Park is an attorney admitted to the Korean Bar in the International Arbitration & Cross-Border Litigation Practice of Kim & Chang. Ms. Park has played a key role in advancing the team’s arbitration practice in newly emerging areas and has been recognized as a “Next Generation Partner” in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022 rankings.

Ms. Park has experience in handling various types of disputes arising from a wide range of business sectors, including disputes involving insurance, distribution, joint venture and shareholders agreements arising from construction, development, pharmaceutical and finance sectors. She has handled arbitration administered by institution such as ICC, KCAB, SIAC and CCBC, as well as ad hoc arbitration. In particular, Ms. Park has successfully represented a Korean subsidiary of a multinational JV company in ICC arbitration, including Emergency Arbitrator proceedings, on a dispute related to distribution of construction material. She is also involved in billion-dollar disputes, including a dispute involving a joint venture agreement for which she represented a Korean pharmaceutical company and a dispute regarding the exercise of a put option to exit a Korean company for which she presented private equity funds. She is also representing a Japanese multinational company in an insurance claim against an insurance company.

Ms. Park has been at the forefront of the most recent developments in arbitration practice including emergency proceedings, investor-state disputes, and virtual proceedings. She has contributed to the arbitration community by authoring a number of publications on these topics. Her most recent publications include “Procedural Issues in an Arbitration: Disclosure, The Guide to Investment Treaty Protection and Enforcement (Co-author, Global Arbitration Review, 2022)” and “Shift in Paradigm in Investor-State Arbitration: Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability, Korea Arbitration Review (Issue 11) (Co-author, KCAB International, 2020).”

Korean and English

Admitted to bar, Korea, 2015

Harvard Law School (LL.M., 2019) School of Law, Seoul National University (J.D., 2015) College of Law, Seoul National University (LL.B., 2012)