Michael S. Kim

Michael S. Kim is co-founder Kobre & Kim in New York, which specializes in disputes and investiga- tions. He serves as lead counsel in high-stakes financial disputes, with a particular focus on international enforcement of arbitration awards. Mr. Kim is a highly regarded advocate in complex financial and in- solvency disputes, particularly those involving international asset-tracing and recovery. He was ranked one of the top 10 judgment enforcement/asset recovery lawyers in the world in Global Arbitration Re- view. He has also been listed in Chambers USA and Benchmark Litigation. Mr. Kim has served as an expert witness on U.S. debtor-creditor laws in the courts of the Cayman Islands, and is co-author of the book Debtor-Creditor Fraud (West Publishing). Previously, he was a prosecutor for the U.S. Depart- ment of Justice focusing on white-collar criminal cases involving hedge funds, securities and commod- ity futures fraud, many of which involved international asset-tracing and forfeiture. He also practiced at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York and served as a U.S. Army infantry officer. Mr. Kim received both his B.A. and J.D. from Harvard, where he served as executive editor of the Harvard Law Review.