Sookmi Lee

Practice Areas

Ms. Lee is a partner at Shin & Kim, mainly practicing in the areas of general corporate matters, hostile M&A, finance, trust, real estate litigations. Ms. Lee is a seasoned expert with ample experience in drawing out the best practical conclusions in several high profile hostile M&As and management dispute cases, representing Hyundai Elevator, Asiana Airlines, Hyundai Securities, Helixmith, Bithumb Holdings, among others. She engaged in numerous important litigations retained by Shin & Kim, and accumulated several winning track records. Ms. Lee has been winning the title as the leading lawyer year after year, awarded by recognized legal publishers at home and abroad, such as Chambers, Legal500. She has been offering corporate litigation lectures to legal experts at Korea Bar Association, Seoul Bar Association, and is a widely-known and highly acclaimed lawyer in both theory and practice.

Career

Partner, Shin & Kim; Member, the Ethics Investigation Advisory Committee, National Assembly (2023-Present); Lecturer, Corporate Litigation, Korean Bar Association’s training program (2021-Present); Lecturer, Corporate Law Training Course, Seoul Bar Association (2014-Present).

Professional Memberships

Korean Bar.

Publications

Corporate Governance, Korean Commercial Law Association, 2022 (Co-authored); Practical Issues under the Preliminary Injunction for Suspension of the Performance of Director's duty and Appointment of Acting Director, Business Law Review, 2017.

Education