
Profile
Capabilities
Experience
- Advised a Korean government-controlled public utilities company in an international arbitration dispute against a foreign government.
- Represented a subcontractor in a construction dispute under the ICC Rules.°
- Represented the controlling shareholder in a joint venture dispute under the HKIAC Rules.°
- Represented the shipbuilder in a shipbuilding dispute arbitration under the LMAA Rules.°
- Represented the buyer in a commodity sale and purchase dispute under the HKIAC Rules.°
- Represented the buyer in a post-M&A dispute under the SIAC Rules.°
- Represented athletes in an anti-doping rules related sports arbitration under the CAS Rules.°
- Represented and successfully defended an automotive components maker in U.S. courts in product liability cases.
- Represented and successfully defended a Korean optical component maker in a U.S. ITC investigation and in a parallel district court proceeding over patent infringement claims raised by the client’s U.S. competitor.
- Represented as the lead in-house counsel a Korean conglomerate in the United States International Trade Commission §337 Investigation over IP infringement claims.°
- Represented the corporate employer in a wrongful termination dispute in the California state court.°
- Represented Korean funds against U.S. borrowers over a real estate development project in the California state court.°
- Managed acquisition of a Japanese electronics parts maker by a Korean °
- Managed setting up of a JVC between a Korean company and a Swedish company.°
- Managed divestiture of client’s overseas manufacturing subsidiaries.°
- Represented Korea’s largest infrastructure fund in Korea in Project Finance Deal of the Year by IFLR (Pusan New Port Project).°
- Represented Korea’s largest ship fund in several ship financing projects.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Choi prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Credentials
Education
- LL.M., New York University
- J.D., Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Admissions
- Foreign Legal Consultant – Republic of Korea
- California
Languages
- Korean, Native