Ms. Saemee Kim

Partner at Lee & Ko (South Korea)

Speaker

Saemee Kim is a Partner at Lee & Ko, specialising in international arbitration

and cross-border litigation. Ms. Kim has handled a variety of high-value, complex commercial disputes administered under ICC, SIAC, LCIA, KCAB, AAA (ICDR), HKIAC and UNCITRAL Rules as well as ad hoc arbitrations and cross-border litigation before foreign courts. She covers a wide range of industry sectors, such as energy, life-science, M&A, international trade, and IP. As a Korean attorney, she also has numerous experiences acting as counsel in arbitration related litigations and domestic court hearings for foreign clients.

In addition to her client-focused work, Ms. Kim actively contributes to the arbitration community. She has been frequently invited to speak at overseas seminars even when she was an associate. She has also been active in the global arbitration community by acting as Young ICCA Events Coordinator since 2018 and has been promoted to one of the two Young ICCA Events Co-Directors overseeing all of the events and workshops globally held by Young ICCA. She currently serves as the Chair of CIArb YMG Korea Chapter, one of the founders of the South Korea Chapter of of Energy Related Arbitration Practitioners (ENERAP) and an Arbitration Lunch Match Ambassodor for South Korea.

Her commitment and contributions have earned her consistent recognition, being selected as a Future Leaders by Who’s Who Legal since 2018. Moreover, she has consistently maintained the "Rising Stars" ranking by Legal 500 since 2021 and holds a noteworthy "Band 4" ranking in Chambers Asia-Pacific and Chambers Global.

She holds the LLM degree from Stanford Law School and is qualified in Korea and California.