Célia
Guignet

LL.B, LL.M.
Foreign Attorney

celiaguignet@dev.peterandkim.com +82 2 538 2900
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Bar admission
California, 2020
Nationalities
France
Languages
French, English
Location
Seoul

PROFESSIONAL
PRACTICE

Célia Guignet is a foreign attorney at Peter & Kim in Seoul qualified to practice in the State of California.
Célia’s previous legal experience include working as an intern of the International Arbitration Group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Tokyo. She is native in French, fluent in English and also conversant in Japanese.

Areas of
Expertise

  • Arbitration

  • Providing legal advice to the Republic of Korea in a WTO trade dispute involving anti-dumping duties on steel products.

  • Representing a Korean steel supplier in an ad hoc arbitration arising from a bridge construction project in Canada.

  • Acted as counsel to a Korean municipal government in an ICC arbitration for a dispute relating to a comprehensive project to develop the land and public waters of a free economic zone.
  • Legal Intern, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Tokyo Japan (2018.2-2018.5, 018.10-2019.1)
  • Legal Intern, Hayabusa Asuka Law Offices, Tokyo, Japan (2017.9-2017.12)
  • Beasley School of Law, Temple University, Japan Campus, Tokyo, Japan (LL.M., 2016, 2018)
  • University of Bristol Law School, UK (Erasmus year, 2015)
  • Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France (LL.B., 2014)

  • The State Bar of California