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Yu Jin Chung

Senior Associate

yujin.chung@hhlaw.com.au

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Yu Jin Chung is a highly accomplished Senior Associate in our Dispute Resolution & Litigation practice. She specialises in complex commercial litigation, class action, international arbitration, and regulatory disputes, bringing over a decade of experience from a top-tier international law firm. Yu Jin's practice focuses on large, multi-jurisdictional matters across the Federal Court of Australia and State Supreme Courts. Her expertise spans a wide range of industries, including financial services, mining, construction, and insolvency. A key differentiator is Yu Jin's native fluency in Korean (both oral and written), which she leverages to advise and act for major Korean multinational corporations and investors on contractual and cross-border disputes.

Expertise

Experience

  • Advised a Korean construction company on disputes brought by its principal and subcontractors in the course of construction of a mining plant, rail and port facilities in Western Australia.

  • Acted for a consortium of financial investors, in an international arbitral proceeding against Korea’s third largest life insurer, in relation to a contractual dispute surrounding the validity of the IPO and put option clauses.

  • Acted for a German bio-chemical company defending a class action brought by persons diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma by reason of their alleged exposure to the herbicide products which contained glyphosate.

  • Advised a major Korean construction company in relation to a dispute with the principal as to a failed chemical plant in Saudi Arabia.

  • Acted for a Singapore-owned energy company, in defending a class action arising from the 2009 Victorian bushfires alleging that the fire started due to a failed and improperly maintained power line.

  • As inhouse counsel on secondment, acted for major Australian banks in relation to various regulatory and compliance matters and disputes with their customers.

  • Acted for liquidators to bring insolvent trading claims against directors and officers of insolvent companies.

Education

  • Juris Doctor, University of Melbourne

  • Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Art History and English, University of Auckland

Membership

  • Law Society of NSW

Expertise

Qualification

  • Lawyer, Supreme Court of NSW

  • Lawyer, Supreme Court of Victoria

  • Lawyer, High Court of Australia

Languages

  • English

  • Korean