International arbitration

Shin & Kim

Client Satisfaction

Shin & Kim represents a diverse client roster of power, construction, and investment clients. Practice head Young Suk Park draws on his experience as a KCAB arbitrator to act in commercial arbitrations, areas in which Jae Min Jeon has longstanding expertise. Praised for his ‘incredibly sharp and quick-thinking mind’, Youngwon Yoon is an expert in investor-state disputes and construction cases. Jae Hee Kim is a key name for WTO disputes and multi-party HKIAC cases. Robert Wachter joined the group from Lee & Ko in June 2024; having joined the group in March 2024, Brandon Bang contributes his knowledge of reinsurance, and IP and licensing cases.

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Testimonials

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'I enjoyed working with Young Suk Park and Youngwon Yoon. They are fully dedicated and responsive. More importantly they understood our needs that were not always legally driven.'
'Jae Hee Kim is a great attorney, always on top of the materials and issues.'
'Youngwon Yoon has an incredibly sharp and quick-thinking mind that is unparalleled among fellow lawyers. He quickly grasped the technical aspects of our dispute to an astonishing degree, and transformed this knowledge into logical arguments. Stellar performance in advocacy.'
'Shin & Kim’s arbitration team comprises of practitioners with various backgrounds, in addition to disputes and arbitration, which has a strong positive effect on the advice and strategies that Shin & Kim provides, adding value by providing commercially focused and creative solutions.'

Key clients

AIG
KCC Group
Korea Western Power Co., Ltd.
FuelCell Energy, Inc.
Industrial Bank of Korea
Wellbridge Asset Management
Hyundai Corporation
Daesung Corporation
Korea Southern Power
IMM Investment
Yuanta Securities Korea Co. Ltd.

Work highlights

Represented Korea Western Power in a US$400 million investment treaty dispute against the Government of India relating to GOI’s unlawful expropriation of and failure to provide protection to KOWEPO’s investment in a power plant.
Represented a Korean construction conglomerate against a Middle Eastern construction company relating to a US$400 million delay and disruption claim arising from the construction of a LNG plant in the Middle East.
Represented a Korean heavy industry company in a dispute against an Asian power supplier relating to failure to pay for and alleged defects with power plant equipment.