Hyunjung Lee

  • Senior Foreign Attorney
  • T. +82-2-3404-6996
  • F. +82-2-3404-0802
  • E. hyunjung.lee@bkl.co.kr

Overview

Hyunjung Lee is a senior foreign attorney and her main practice areas include international arbitration and international litigation.

Prior to joining Bae, Kim & Lee LLC , Ms. Lee worked as legal counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, the Netherlands, where her main responsibility was acting as tribunal secretary in arbitrations administered by the PCA, assisting the PCA secretary-general in the appointment of arbitrators, and handling matters relating to PCA member states. Prior to that, Ms. Lee was a senior specialist attorney in the Legal Department of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C., where she focused on Latin America's development projects. She also worked at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, a law firm in New York, and Ritch, Heather y Mueller, S.C., a law firm in Mexico City. Ms. Lee received an LL.B. (cum laude) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico in 2005, and an LL.M. (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar) from Columbia Law School in New York in 2006. She is admitted to practice in Mexico (2005) and New York (2007). Having been raised in Mexico, she is a native speaker of Spanish. She is also fluent in English and has conversational knowledge of French and Korean.

Representative Experience

2019-Present Bae, Kim & Lee LLC
2013-2019 Legal Counsel, Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), The Hague, the Netherlands
2008-2013 Senior Specialist Attorney, Legal Department, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington D.C.
2006-2008 Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York
2003-2005 Ritch, Heather y Mueller, S.C., Mexico City
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2023-Present Member, International Affairs Committee, Korean Bar Association
2022-Present Mediator, Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC)
2021-Present Member, Steering Committee, KCAB Next

Representative Matters

Tribunal Secretary in PCA-administered UNCITRAL ad hoc investor-State arbitration seated in The Hague, the Netherlands, between South American Silver Limited (Bermudian subsidiary of a Canadian mining company) and the Plurinational State of Bolivia under the UK-Bolivia BIT
Tribunal Secretary in PCA-administered UNCITRAL ad hoc investor-State arbitration seated in Paris, France, between individual investors in the food industry and Venezuela under the Spain-Venezuela BIT
Tribunal Secretary in PCA-administered UNCITRAL ad hoc arbitration seated in Singapore between Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (a Filipino water utility company) and the Republic of the Philippines
Represented a Korean airline company in an ICC international arbitration seated in Singapore
Advised, and provided management services to, a Korean insurance company in US arbitration and litigation proceedings between its US subsidiary and various US insurance companies
International Arbitration and Litigation Practice Group
Tribunal Secretary in PCA-administered UNCITRAL ad hoc arbitration seated in Kathmandu, Nepal, between Indian Potash Limited of India and Agriculture Inputs Company Limited of Nepal
Tribunal Secretary in PCA-administered UNCITRAL ad hoc arbitration seated in Mexico City initiated by an American consortium formed by John W. Mcdougall Company Inc. and Dredge & Marine Corporation against the Costa Rican electricity utility company El Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE)
Successfully represented Incheon Metropolitan City and Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority in an ICC international arbitration seated in Hong Kong initiated by EightCity Co., Ltd. relating to investments by the Kempinski Group for multi-billion development projects in Incheon
Represented a Korean pharmaceutical company in an ICC international arbitration seated in Seoul brought by a Japanese pharmaceutical company
Tribunal Secretary in PCA-administered UNCITRAL ad hoc investor-State arbitration seated in The Hague, the Netherlands, between South American Silver Limited (Bermudian subsidiary of a Canadian mining company) and the Plurinational State of Bolivia under the UK-Bolivia BIT
Tribunal Secretary in PCA-administered UNCITRAL ad hoc investor-State arbitration seated in Paris, France, between individual investors in the food industry and Venezuela under the Spain-Venezuela BIT
Tribunal Secretary in PCA-administered UNCITRAL ad hoc arbitration seated in Singapore between Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (a Filipino water utility company) and the Republic of the Philippines
Represented a Korean airline company in an ICC international arbitration seated in Singapore
Advised, and provided management services to, a Korean insurance company in US arbitration and litigation proceedings between its US subsidiary and various US insurance companies
Represented a Korean construction company in an UNCITRAL ad hoc investor-State arbitration against a Middle Eastern country seated in The Hague, the Netherlands
Currently representing the Republic of Korea in an UNCITRAL ad hoc investor-State arbitration seated in Paris, France, initiated by a Swiss investor

Education

2006 Columbia Law School (LL.M., Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar)
2005 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (LL.B., cum laude)

Selected Activities

Awards
Asian Legal Business - Korean Super 30 Lawyers (2021)

Qualifications

2007 New York
2005 Mexico

Awards and Recognition

Awards and Recognition