Sookmi Lee

Practice Areas

Ms. Sookmi Lee is a partner at Shin & Kim, mainly practicing in the areas of general corporate matters, hostile M&A, finance, real estate litigations.

Ms. Lee is a seasoned expert with ample experience in drawing out the best practical conclusions in several high profile management dispute cases and shareholder activism cases, representing Hyundai Elevator, Asiana Airlines, Helixmith, Korea Zinc, Hanmi Pharmaceutical, Ourhome, Ador, 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 the Korea Bar Association and the Seoul Bar Association, and is a widely-known and highly acclaimed lawyer in both theory and practice.

Career

Shin & Kim LLC (2005-Present)

Judicial Research & Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (2003-2005)

Professional Affiliations

Member, Ethics Investigation Advisory Committee, National Assembly (2023-2024)

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

Chambers In-Depth Overview – Dispute Resolution: Litigation 2026: South Korea (Co-authored)

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. 3.

Education

Work Highlights

Represented client in a litigation on internet network usage fees between domestic telecommunications service provider and global OTT company

Represented client in a litigation and advised on the dispute between the shareholders of Ourhome

Represented client in a litigation and advised on the dispute between domestic conglomerates and foreign shareholders

Represented client in a litigation related to the employee transfer of top-tier tutors in private tutoring institutes

Represented client in a preliminary injunction lawsuit related to blocking company division of GM Korea

Represented client in a litigation related to the site of the Incheon Terminal Department Store

Represented client in a litigation related to a fire case of a large-scale logistics center

Represented client in civil and criminal lawsuits related to the collapse of the construction site of a large-scale logistics center

Represented major corporates in a litigation and advised on minority shareholder actions

Represented client in shareholder derivative lawsuits

Represented client in a litigation and advised on dispute over management rights of companies including Helixmith, Melfas, Unichem, D&A Link, Union Studio, Bithumb Korea, Asiana Airlines, Nuri Plan, Golden Bridge Asset Management, Korea Land Trust, and Leading Investment Securities

Represented client in criminal proceedings of white-collar cases