About
Yoonji is an Associate in our International Arbitration Group and Global Project Disputes Practice, based in London.
Yoonji represents clients in commercial and construction disputes across a variety of industries, specialising in commercial and investor-state international arbitration. She is an English-qualified Solicitor-Advocate, and a native Korean speaker.
Additional Information
- Representing a financial sponsor in a SIAC arbitration concerning the termination of what would have been Korea’s largest-ever real estate transaction.
- Representing boutique investment banks in an ad hoc arbitration against a Chinese pharmaceutical company relating to its advisory fees arising from a multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical transaction.
- Representing a financial sponsor in a SIAC arbitration concerning the development of a major real estate project and related allegations of oppression and mismanagement.
- Representing Akfel Commodities in its high profile ICSID arbitration against Turkiye arising from the expropriation of its businesses, including the largest private natural gas importer in Turkiye, on the basis of arbitrary terrorist allegations made by the Erdogan regime.
- Representing a global oil and gas major on four large-scale civil litigations ensuing from allegations of involvement in fraudulent oil trading.

Yoonji Lee
Associate
London Office
100 Bishopsgate
London EC2P 2SR