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Shin & Kim Has Launched An International Dispute Resolution Practice Group
Issued: January 01 2010Shin & Kim has launched an international dispute resolution practice group.
Partner Beomsu Kim has focused on developing expertise in international arbitration and cross-border dispute resolution, representing a diverse group of Korean and foreign clients in arbitrations spanning multiple jurisdictions and under the rules of the ICC, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board, where he has also been appointed as an arbitrator. Kim is a director of the Korean Council for International Arbitration, and will serve as the chair of the practice group.
Shin & Kim has also named Benjamin F Hughes, formerly a senior associate in international arbitration at Shearman & Sterling, to serve as co-chair of the IDR group. Hughes is an arbitrator of the KCAB, and previously served as adjunct professor at the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea. He has appeared as counsel in arbitrations in Asia, Europe and the United States under the rules of all major arbitral institutions.
Seoul-based corporate law firm Yoon Yang Kim Shin & Yu has changed its name to Yoon & Yang, effective January 1. The firm traces its origins to the 2003 merger of Yoon & Partners and Roh & Yang, and the subsequent merger of the joined firm with Kim Shin & Yu in March 2006.
Prior to the merger, Yoon & Partners was established in 1989 by Hoil Yoon, who brought 10 years experience as a partner at the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie. Yoon & Partners gained its reputation in the areas of international transactions, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and fair trade, intellectual property rights, finance and international litigation.
Roh & Yang was established in 1993 by Kyung Rae Roh and six other attorneys. Later, former judge Sam-Sung Yang was invited to join the firm as a joint managing partner, followed by former Chief Justice Kwan Yun and former Justice Kyung-Song Chun of the Korean Supreme Court and other renowned attorneys.
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