Dong-Hee Suh has over thirty- five years’ experience in complex commercial disputes with distinguished expertise in international commercial litigation and arbitration in maritime and shipping matters, international trade, and transactional matters involving ship sale & purchase, ship finance and shipbuilding as well as port investment and related projects. Mr. Suh frequently acts for foreign clients (shipping companies, P&I clubs and insurers) as well as Korean clients in a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious matters and is a leading figure in Korea’s admiralty and international business law communities.

Mr. Suh received his LL.B. from Seoul National University College of Law in 1984 and was admitted to practice law in Korea in 1986. He received his LL.M. (Master of Laws) in Admiralty from Tulane University in 1996. He was admitted to New York state bar in 1997. Mr. Suh worked as senior lawyer in the maritime and aviation practice of Kim & Chang for eight years before establishing his own firm, Suh & Co, in 2000. Mr. Suh served as legal advisor to the Ministry of Maritime Affairs & Fisheries (currently the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries) from 2001 until 2019. Mr. Suh has served as legal advisor to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and the Ministry of Construction and Transportation from 2013 to 2017. He is an active member of the MLA (Maritime Law Association of the United States). Previously, Mr. Suh was a legal advisor of the KSA (Korea Shipping Association) and the KP&I (Korea P&I Club) as well as a member of the Financial Dispute Settlement Committee of the Financial Supervisory Service. Mr. Suh is an outside legal counsel for the Korea Coast Guard. Mr. Suh attended Beijing, Dublin and Hamburg CMI in 2012, 2013 and 2014 as national delegate particularly for a subject “recognition of judicial sale of ships.