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Hee Eun (Erin) Kim

Hee Eun (Erin) Kim is a local principal at Baker McKenzie in Singapore, specializing in competition law and digital regulation. She advises multinational companies on antitrust investigations, merger control, regulatory compliance, and commercial arrangements, with particular expertise in digital platforms, artificial intelligence, data, intellectual property, and emerging technologies. Her work also addresses digital infrastructure, semiconductor supply chains, and competition policy across Asia.

Before joining Baker McKenzie in 2026, Kim was director of competition policy for the Asia-Pacific region at Meta, where she provided strategic guidance on competition policy and digital regulation. She previously spent more than eight years at Samsung Electronics, serving as lead antitrust counsel and holding senior legal and policy positions in Brussels and South Korea. Her responsibilities included managing international antitrust investigations, litigation, and commercial transactions involving semiconductors, smartphones, and other technology markets.

Earlier in her career, Kim practiced European Union competition and intellectual property law at Covington & Burling in Brussels. She also worked at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs in New York and the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva.

Kim served as a visiting policy fellow at the University of Oxford’s Oxford Internet Institute from 2024 to 2026 and as a nongovernmental adviser to the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition from 2019 to 2023. She is a co-founder of the APAC Women’s Competition Network. She received the 2021 Global Counsel Award for Competition Law and was recognized by Global Competition Review as one of the top 50 in-house antitrust lawyers in 2019 and among its Women in Antitrust in 2025.

Kim is admitted to practice law in New York and England and Wales. She earned an LL.M. in law, science, and technology from Stanford Law School and an LL.M. in intellectual property and competition law from the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center. She also holds postgraduate diplomas in economics for competition law and European Union competition law from King’s College London and an LL.B. from Ewha Womans University.