Ranked in 1 Practice Areas
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Band 1

Shipping: International Firms

South Korea

10 Years Ranked

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Provided by Michael Kim

Asia-Pacific

Practice Areas

Michael is the office managing partner of the Seoul office. Michael advises on a wide range of shipping, shipbuilding and offshore, construction, international trade and commercial litigation issues including charterparties, memoranda of agreement, shipbuilding contracts, on & offshore construction contracts, marine and commercial insurance, agency agreements, letters of credit and commercial notes.

In both contentious and transactional areas, Michael has a strong reputation. He manages proceedings in the London High Court and has conducted numerous international arbitrations. His transactional work includes advising on shipbuilding and offshore contracts, ship finance and outward investment from Korea to Europe and Central Asia.

Michael has also been ranked as a leading individual for consecutive 7 years since the foundation of the Seoul office in Chambers Global in the ’Shipping International Firms’ category in South Korea, where Stephenson Harwood has also been listed in Band 1 as such.

Michael’s clients include major shipowners, shipbuilders, insurers, traders, securities houses, banks and P&I clubs in London and Hong Kong. He writes regularly for the trade, shipping and ship finance media and often speaks on marine issues at seminars for shipowners, shipbuilders, ship finance banks, charterers, traders and insurers.

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