Karen H. Kim, Esq.

Ms. Kim's experience includes more than 25 years of practice, including over a decade in-house at global financial firms, giving her a perspective that is cost-sensitive and operationally practical.

Ms. Kim has substantial experience in the review and negotiation of financial contracts, including swaps and derivatives agreements, private investment partnership agreements, and asset transfer agreements.  She also frequently assists clients with service and vendor contracts, leases, software license agreements, website terms of use, and nondisclosure agreements.

Ms. Kim is an active commercial mediator who is on the mediation rosters for the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court in New York and Westchester Counties, and she is on the arbitration panel for FINRA.

Prior to establishing the Firm, Ms. Kim was a Senior Counterparty Relations Attorney at the investment manager Bridgewater Associates, LP.  Before her work at Bridgewater, Ms. Kim was a Managing Director and Associate General Counsel at RBS Greenwich Capital (now part of NatWest Markets) and also held positions at Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley.

Ms. Kim is licensed to practice law in New York and Connecticut, and she is a CFA charterholder.  She received her undergraduate degree magna cum laude in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, and her law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School.  Earlier in her career, Ms. Kim served as a law clerk to the Honorable Dennis Jacobs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell.