During his tenure one of his most important cases was the prosecution of the $75 million Sterling Foster scam, a crime that would be the inspiration for the movie Boiler Room.
Before settling in New York City, Kim spent time living in Dubai, Europe, and Costa Rica, where he learned to speak fluent Spanish.
[3] Their entrepreneurship turned out to be a ground-breaking achievement as it was the first time in 20 years that alumni from the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan had started their own firm immediately after government service.
Since then, the firm has expanded from New York to a total of 15 locations including Buenos Aires, Chicago, Delaware, Miami, San Francisco, São Paulo, Washington DC, Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, London, Tel Aviv, the British Virgin Islands, and the Cayman Islands.
[5] Kim has been involved in various litigations including defending Brian Hunter, an energy trader, who faced an enforcement action brought by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission;[6] advising the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in seeking to recover over US $100 million in unpaid taxes from the founder of ComputerLand Corp., William H. Millard;[7] and obtaining a US $30 million award on behalf of U.S. Airways against Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. before a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration panel in New York.