Julia is a Partner (Foreign Lawyer) in the firm’s International Arbitration Practice and heads one of the largest Korea Practice teams in Singapore with several Korean qualified lawyers.

Julia has handled international dispute resolution matters across a diverse range of industries (including international arbitration, international mediation and cross-border litigation) in the construction, manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and energy industries. These usually involve disputes over joint ventures, international trade, shareholder and investment agreements across jurisdictions including South Korea, Japan, China, Singapore, India, Australia, Germany, Canada and the United States of America.

She has experience in ad-hoc arbitrations as well as various institutional arbitrations administered by Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Rules, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Rules, American Arbitration Association International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA/ICDR) Arbitration Rules, Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB) Rules and UNCITRAL Rules, where the substantive laws of the contracts have included Korean law, Japanese law, Singapore law, Australian law and California law.

Julia also has experience in practicing laws in South Korea from corporate, M&A, employment, white-collar crime, anti-corruption investigation and compliance, to civil & commercial litigation and intellectual property (IP) infringement cases.

Previously, she served as Counsel and Head of North East Asia desk at SIAC administering over 130 international arbitration cases under the SIAC Arbitration Rules as well as the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. Julia then practiced as Special Counsel of the international dispute resolution group at one of the major law firms in South Korea, before returning to Singapore to join Oon & Bazul LLP. She is a member of the Korean Bar Association, the Seoul Bar Association, the Korean Intellectual Property Office and a fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. She has been appointed to the panel of arbitrators at the Thai Arbitration Institute (TAI) and also invited to be an Advisor to the TAI.

Julia also teaches international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration and IP dispute resolution at Kyushu University Graduate School of Law in Japan and lectures at Seoul National University College of Engineering in South Korea.