Mr. Kim’s main areas of practice are international arbitration and cross-border litigation. In addition, Mr.Kim has extensive experience in M&As, general corporate transactions and foreign investments. He has been involved in many significant cross-border investments and major M&As.

Mr. Kim served as the Executive Director of International Relations for the Korean Bar Association. He is a director of the Korean Council of International Arbitration and has served as an arbitrator, lead conunsel and co-counsel in arbitrations under the auspices of the ICC, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board, and the London Court of International Arbitration.

She is also specialized in corporate image preservation issues and in the strategic coordination of actions involving government relations and corporate investigations. In addition, she is the head of the Asia practice group and co-head of the Compliance practice group of TozziniFreire.

Mrs. Kim graduated from the University of São Paulo School of Law and specialized in Tax Law from the same university. She obtained her LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in Brussels, Belgium, specialized in Tax Law and studied at the Academy of American and International Law, organized by the Center for American and International Law, in Dallas, Texas, USA.

Mrs. Kim is a member of the following institutions: London Court of International Arbitration; International Inter-Pacific Bar Association; Advisory Board of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, having received the 2007 International Compliance Professional award; Association of Korean Lawyers; National Unification Advisory Council of the Republic of Korea; member representing the Brazilian government in the Brazil-Korea Forum; Senior Board Member of the Brazil-China Business Council.

He is currently senior partner of Messrs Mah – Kamariyah & Philip Koh , a law firm with full city practice having strengths in corporate securities law, cross border investments , corporate finance and banking .The Firm also provides a complement of litigation services and arbitration mediation work.

In 1995 to join the corporate world as an Executive Director and Group Legal Director of Phileo Allied Bhd a public listed company involved in inter-alia, banking and capital markets. During his years in the corporate sector he served in the EXCO of the Federation of Public Listed Companies and also its’ Chairperson of the Technical and Regulatory Committee. He is an Adviser to the Malaysian Institute for Corporate Governance (MICG). He also served as member of Law Reform Committee (JPK Working Group II ) n Corporate Governance in Malaysia , Finance Committee on Corporate Governance 1999 . In late 1998 early 1999 rejoined legal practice with a leading law firm.

He is currently a member of the Corporate Law Reform Committee, a Committee appointed by the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs that is working on a major law reform initiative on the Malaysian Company legislation.

He was also a visiting Fulbright Scholar attached to Professor Oliver Hart of Harvard University, Economics Department in 1999.

He served as Adjunct Professor Deakins University, Australia and also Adjunct Faculty Staff of the Handong International Law School at Pohang , Korea . .

He is one of the first invited international Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators .

He served as Non Executive Director of the Asia Assurance Bhd ( A general Insurance Company which is a subsidiary of the Asia Assurance group in Singapore .

He served as member of Ethics Committee which looked into the IFAC Code of Ethics for the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.

He served as member of Ethical Advisory Panel of Ethical Fund Mayban He is also life member of Persatuan Ekonomi Malaysia . He served a member of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Audit Sub Committee( 2002 –2004) .

Publications
He publishes regularly in learned journals and financial news media. He has provided Country reports to World Bank and OECD on corporate governance and Insolvency law reform. He collaborated on an ADBI ( Asian Development Bank Institute ) project on Banking and Corporate Governance Report on Malaysia( 2006 ) .Republished in Malaysian Bankers Journal June 2007 Malaysian Corporate Governance in Banking He was co-author of “The Law of Contract in Malaysia and Singapore - Cases and Commentary” (Oxford) (1979), Legal and Accounting Implications of S 67 A of the Companies Act : Scope and Strategic Operation of Share Buy Back ( MAICSCA) and Chan & Koh’s Company Law 1st and 2nd Edition (Sweet & Maxwell)( 900 page legal treatise on law of corporation ) .He contributed an article , “ Independent Directors : Roles & Expectations – Watchdogs or Advisers” to Securities Commission publication on Independent Director : Perceptions , Roles and Responsibilities .

His paper on John Rawls & Jurgen Habermas : Implications for Asian Constitutionalism presented to and published by College of Law , Seoul National University( 2005 )

He is Co- editor to Sheridan & Groves Constitution of Malaya ( 5th Edition ) ( MLJ)( A leading commentary on the Malaysian Constitution .Forthcoming ( August 2007 )article on Constitutionalism , Conventions and Democracy: the Sabah Cases in Lexis Nexis Publication 50 years of Federal Constitution

He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Bankers Journal Malaysia, a publication of the Institute of Banks Malaysia.

He is a well known and sought after speaker at conferences on all aspects of corporate governance both in Malaysia and abroad. He was the only Malaysian lawyer named and nominated by his peers in International Who’s Who’s in Corporate Governance for Malaysia 2004-2009 .