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Minister K Shanmugam SC
Minister for Home Affairs & Minister for LawMr K Shanmugam was educated at Raffles Institution from 1972 to 1977. He then read law at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he graduated at the top of his class with First Class Honours, in 1984. He was admitted to the Singapore Bar as an Advocate & Solicitor in 1985.
Mr Shanmugam went into private practice and became one of the Senior Partners and Head of Litigation & Dispute Resolution at Allen & Gledhill LLP, which was the largest law firm in Singapore. In 1998, he was appointed a Senior Counsel of the Supreme Court of Singapore at the age of 38, one of the youngest lawyers to be so appointed.
Mr Shanmugam had a successful practice and was consistently recognised in international publications, as one of the top litigation, arbitration and insolvency Counsel in Asia and Singapore. While in practice, he regularly handled trial work in major corporate, commercial and insolvency disputes, malpractice suits and inquiries; and has acted for lawyers in disciplinary inquiries as well as in criminal proceedings. Mr Shanmugam has also acted for senior government leaders in Singapore, including the current and previous Prime Ministers of Singapore, as well as for the Chief Justice of Singapore. More than 100 of the cases handled by Mr Shanmugam have been reported in the Law Reports.
Prior to accepting public office, Mr Shanmugam served in various committees and Boards, including the Advisory Board of the Faculty of Law; the Raffles Institution Board of Governors; the Media Development Authority, and Sembawang Corporation Industries Ltd (a company listed on the Singapore Exchange). Mr Shanmugam was also President of the Singapore Indian Development Association (SINDA) from March 2002 to March 2009.
On 1 May 2008 Mr Shanmugam was appointed a Cabinet Minister. He is now the Minister for Home Affairs and the Minister for Law. He has also served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Lam Chee Kin
Managing Director & Head Group Legal & Compliance of DBS Bank LtdChee Kin is accountable for the team which manages the legal and regulatory risk of DBS across legal entities, segments, and geographies. Prior to joining, he held various legal and compliance portfolios in Standard Chartered Bank, JPMorgan, Rajah & Tann, and Allen & Gledhill, including a stint as Chief Operating Officer, South East Asia for JPMorgan.
A lawyer by profession, he has particular expertise in financial services regulation, and financial markets product and business structuring. Currently, however, he is focusing on the impact of digitisation, and the evolution of frameworks that will be necessary to cope with digitisation and data, together with second-order issues such as how criminal activity will also evolve, and how legal and compliance departments can benefit from analytics and AI.
Chee Kin currently serves on the Advisory Board to the Singapore Management University School of Law and the Advisory Panel to the NUS Centre for Banking and Finance Law. In 2015, Chee Kin was recognised as a Distinguished Fellow by the Institute of Banking and Finance in the field of compliance.
Peggy Lim
Head of Legal, Wider Asia Region at HaleonPeggy is currently Haleon’s Head of Legal, Wider Asia Region, and is a member of the Legal, Compliance, and Corporate Secretariat Leadership Team of Haleon.
As a member of the Leadership Team, she is involved in helping to shape the strategy and mission of Haleon’s Legal, Compliance and Corporate function. In addition, she sits on several commercial leadership teams and oversees the legal support to Haleon’s business and operations across Wider Asia (ANZ, India-Subcontinent, Japan, Korea, South East Asia and Taiwan) from their R&D to manufacturing to marketing and sales activities.
Prior to Haleon’s demerger from GlaxoSmithKline in 2022, Peggy held various roles as part of the Legal team of GlaxoSmithKline overseeing legal support to the Pharmaceutical and Vaccines business across parts of Asia Pacific, GSK Asia regional headquarter, GSK’s global nutritionals and systemic pain category and she also served on their Legal Digital Centre of Excellence. Peggy is an alumni of GSK’s Asia Leadership (Emerging Leaders) Program and was instrumental in building up a legal team across Asia.
Before joining GSK, Peggy was the Asia Pacific counsel of a European company in the oil and gas industry. Peggy started her career in private practice as a litigator in a Singapore law firm before switching to corporate work focusing on mergers and acquisitions and capital market work.
Peggy graduated from the National University of Singapore’s law school.
Kalindee Mehta
Regional General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at SAPKalindee Mehta is the Regional General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for SAP Asia Pacific and Japan. She has about 20 years of experience working in diverse sectors like manufacturing, FMCG, Investment Banking and technology while working for organizations like Lehman Brothers, Credit Suisse, GE, Pernod Ricard and SAP.
In her role, Kalindee advises the senior management of SAP on broad spectrum of complex commercial transactions, legal entity management, employment & competition laws, topics pertaining to privacy, security, data protection, Intellectual Property management etc. She has also represented her organisation with various regulators and is involved in public policy discussions on emerging topics.
Prior to her role as Regional General Counsel, Kalindee was the Chief of Staff to the SAP Asia President and had the opportunity to work on many diverse business topics like Customer Success, Strategies, Products and GoToMarket plans etc. Her business knowledge coupled with legal skills is helping her navigate the current challenges in the external environment.
Veronica Lai
Chief Corporate & Sustainability Officer & General Counsel at StarHub LtdVeronica is the Chief Corporate and Sustainability Officer, as well as General Counsel for the StarHub group. She is responsible for StarHub’s Legal, Corporate Secretariat, Regulatory and Sustainability functions.
With over two decades of experience in the info-communications industry, Veronica also helmed Corporate Communications and Investor Relations during her tenure at StarHub. Prior to joining StarHub, she practised law at Rajah and Tann Singapore LLP.
Veronica serves as the Honorary Treasurer of the Global Compact Network Singapore’s Management Committee and is appointed as a specialist mediator by the Singapore International Mediation Centre. She is appointed by the Ministry of Finance to serve on the Income Tax Review Board. Veronica was conferred the Chief Legal Officer 2020 Award by the Singapore Corporate Counsel Association and is listed in Legal 500’s GC Powerlist since 2017. She also received the Asian Company Secretary 2013 Award for Singapore by Corporate Governance Asia. Veronica holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the National University of Singapore.
Christian Greissinger
General Counsel Asia Pacific at SiemensChristian started his career at the international law firm Lovells (now HoganLovells) in Munich specializing in IT, data protection, sports law and outsourcing projects. Following a secondment at a large US e-commerce corporation, Christian joined the legal department of Siemens AG in Munich (2007) and since then has worked for Siemens in different functions and countries: In 2009 Christian moved to Casablanca (Morocco) and had the unique chance to set-up a legal department for Siemens in North-West-Central Africa as Cluster General Counsel. After three years in that position, Christian returned to Germany and was appointed as General Counsel for the Siemens Division Smart Grid based in Nuremberg. In 2017 Christian has moved to Singapore and since then works as the General Counsel for the ASEAN-Australia region.
Christian has studied in Wuerzburg (Germany) and London, holds a doctorate degree in law and was admitted to the bar in Germany (2002). Before his law studies, Christian served his compulsory community service in a mental hospital for 18 months. Christian is married and has 3 children, is a passionate skier, tennis player, and soccer fan.
Natasha Sulaiman
VP Legal & Compliance at Singapore AirlinesNatasha leads a team of highly motivated lawyers who advise on a wide array of legal and regulatory compliance issues at Singapore Airlines.
Before joining Singapore Airlines, she practised as a disputes lawyer at Drew & Napier and Morgan Lewis Stamford. She is listed in The Legal 500’s GC Powerlist: Southeast Asia 2022, and was a top 3 finalist in the Singapore Corporate Counsel Association’s Chief Legal Officer Awards 2022. Natasha holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the National University of Singapore.
John Cordova
Director & Deputy General Counsel of GrabJohn oversees Grab's fundraising, M&A, and venture capital activities from a legal and executions perspective. He led Grab's legal deal team that listed Grab on NASDAQ and closed the Grab/Uber Southeast Asia transaction. John was a director of a US private equity firm where he originated and closed regional investments into education and healthcare projects. John was a partner at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP, a leading Singapore-based regional law firm, and practiced with two Magic Circle firms (Freshfields and Clifford Chance) for over 13 years, across four jurisdictions: Bangkok, Hong Kong, London, and Singapore.
John is qualified in England and Wales as a solicitor and was admitted to the Rolls of the Supreme Court in 2000. John earned an LL.B (Hons) in Philosophy from the University of Kent, Canterbury, and did the Legal Practice Course at Nottingham Law School. He studied Mandarin at the Beijing Language and Cultural University, completed a Global Management Certificate with Insead, and a Leadership and Management course with Harvard Business School.
Anu Ambikaipalan
Associate General Counsel at UberAnu Ambikaipalan is the Associate General Counsel at Uber for the Asia-Pacific region. She leads a team of over 50 lawyers and legal professionals overseeing all legal aspects of the company’s mobility and delivery businesses - from corporate governance and commercial contracting, to high-stakes litigation and regulatory investigations.
Prior to becoming the AGC, Anu led the employment legal team across the 50 markets that make up APAC & EMEA. In this role, Anu and her team worked with labour regulators and unions to consider the best ways to regulate the gig economy, and ensure drivers and couriers get protections and benefits alongside the flexibility and independence they value.
Anu began her career at Ashurst in Melbourne, specialising in employment law. She then moved to Telstra, Australia’s largest telco, joining its HR Legal team supporting the company’s more than 37,000 workers. She moved to Singapore with Telstra in 2013 advising on its international expansion.
Anu believes that tech can strengthen the work of legal teams and last year introduced a machine learning tool to improve regulatory reporting compliance in APAC. She is also passionate about career development for her team and those in typically under-represented groups and is the Executive Sponsor for Pride@Uber in APAC. In her spare time, she reads fiction for her book/wine club and loves doing weights at the gym (currently leg pressing 140 KG).
Kala Anandarajah
Head, Competition & Antitrust and Trade; Lead Partner, Corporate Governance at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLPKala is always a forerunner in niche areas of the law, practices in Competition (merger control, cartels etc), Trade (export controls, FTAs, sanctions etc), and Consumer Protection. She also has strong practices in Employment, EHS / ESG and Telco/Media Laws. Named Thought Leader for Competition for several years now by Who’s Who Legal, she is lauded by clients as having “unrivalled knowledge and understanding of the law and uniquely… able to understand very complicated businesses and their likely reactions” by Chambers Asia Pacific and has a “solid, can-do attitude and excellent client management skills … and is very good at working out a strategic solution to a legal problem ... one of the few practitioners who is truly at the cutting edge …”. Chambers Asia Pacific also note that "She thinks creatively within the law, and provides useable advice for navigating difficult situations". In 2022, Kala won the Lexology Client Choice Award for Competition, amongst the numerous annual elite practitioner or best lawyer awards she has received. In 2021, Kala was honoured to have been awarded the Highly Commended Lawyer in Private Practice at the Legal 500 Southeast Asia Awards (one of only two), awarded the Outstanding Achievement by Women in Business Law Awards Asia and recognised as one of only two Most Highly Regarded in the Southeast Asia chapter by Who’s Who Legal: Southeast Asia Competition. Anandarajah sits on various boards. For her public service, in 2022, she was awarded the Public Service Star (Bintang Bakti Masyarakat) and in 2014, she was awarded the Public Service Medal (Pingat Bakti Masyarakat), both of which are conferred by the President of Singapore.
Tracy Ang
Deputy Head, Mergers & Acquisitions at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLPTracy is the Deputy Head of the M&A Practice Group, and has over 20 years of experience in the area of Mergers and Acquisition, Venture Capital and Private Equity transactions. Her versality in this practice shows in the clients - MNCs, startups, SMEs, private equity investors and venture capital funds whom she represents across acquisition, investment and divestment transactions across industries including consumer, health-tech, fin-tech and environmental solutions through the use of equity, debt and hybrid instruments.
She is recognised as a Leading Individual by The Legal 500 and recommended by Chambers Asia Pacific. Tracy’s experience is described as “unparalleled”. Client’s value her “quick thinking”, ability to “break things down” and give “very practical advice”. She has also been recognised by her peers as an outstanding lawyer in the field of Corporate Law from 2014 to 2022 by Best Lawyers International.
David Blanco
ASEAN Head of Law, Patents & Compliance / APAC Regional Counsel at BayerDavid is accountable and leads a diverse ASEAN Law, Patents & Compliance Team of lawyers which manages complex and high-risk strategic matters across all Bayer Group legal entities, partnering close to all businesses (Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Health, and CropScience) and geographies; including emerging markets. At the same time David serves as the APAC LPC business partner/ Regional Counsel for Bayer CropScience Division as a core member of its APAC Leadership Team providing strategic legal, compliance, and licensing business partnering counselling & advice, while providing innovative-creative solutions in different capacity to several functional leadership (category) teams including its Digital Venture Incubator (Climate Corporation). Prior to this role, he held various legal & compliance and licensing portfolios in different geographies of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
As an in-house corporate lawyer with 27 years living and working in Asia, serving in several Board membership capacities throughout his career, David has developed particular expertise in the buildup of a culture of innovation and transformation into legal functions, antitrust/ competition law and merger regulation, licensing, IP defense, mergers integration, and dealing with significant regulatory, reputational, and legal matters related to Life Sciences industries and markets. Currently, however, he is focusing on the impact of digital transformation for all Bayer core businesses (Digital Incubator & Ventures) as well as the Legal & Compliance function itself, the evolution of frameworks that will be necessary to cope with digitization, and how legal and compliance departments will digitally evolve and benefit from analytics and AI.
Andrew Bogusz Grotowski
Regional General Counsel & Senior AdviserAndrew has over 20 years of experience in senior in-house roles and at international law firms, including a leading digital asset exchange, a global FinTech firm, top tier investment banks and Magic Circle law firms in Singapore, London, and New York.
Andrew currently focuses on Web3, digital assets and FinTech. He was the first legal counsel in Asia-Pacific and the first Singapore hire at Coinbase, a leading global crypto-asset exchange and a Fortune 500 company listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market. Andrew established Coinbase's legal function in the region and built a market-leading team of digital asset lawyers across two regional hubs (Singapore and Japan). He also led legal work on successful licence applications in Japan and Singapore, and supported a number of strategically important product launches and institutional client mandates in Asia-Pacific.
Prior to joining Coinbase, Andrew was the Head of Legal, Asia-Pacific at Emergent Technology (EmTech), a global FinTech, blockchain and stablecoin firm. Prior to joining EmTech, Andrew was a director and a senior lawyer, and the co-head of the Emerging Markets Practice Group, in the Global Markets APAC Legal team at Deutsche Bank AG where he supported fixed income product and regulatory work in 14+ jurisdictions in Asia-Pacific. Andrew started his legal career with Linklaters LLP in London and worked in the firm’s London, New York and Warsaw offices, focusing on equity and debt capital markets, structured products and OTC derivatives..
Andrew is a qualified solicitor (England and Wales) and holds an LL.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (Chevening Scholar), an M.A. in Law from the University of Wroclaw and a PgDip in Legal Practice from the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice.
Jay Buckley
Senior Vice-President & Chief Legal Counsel, APAC at PepsiCoJay is currently Senior Vice-President and Chief Legal Counsel for PepsiCo's APAC Sector, comprising its foods and beverages businesses across China, Asia Pacific and Australia New Zealand.
Jay is a commercially focused General Counsel who leads a team of lawyers working on a dynamic agenda across a wide variety of business models and regulatory environments. He joined PepsiCo in May 2011 as General Counsel for PepsiCo's food and beverages business in Australia and New Zealand. Prior to PepsiCo, Jay had a 10 year career in mergers and acquisitions at Corrs Chambers Westgarth in Sydney, and Linklaters and Latham & Watkins in London.
Kyungsun Kyle CHOI
Foreign Attorney at Kim & ChangKyungsun Kyle Choi is a foreign attorney in the firm's Health and Digital Healthcare Practice and is a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense Practice. She also advises chemical and related industry clients including consumer goods on EH&S regulations that have been undergoing rapid changes with focused enforcement activities.
Ms. Choi works with a broad range of companies in the pharmaceutical/medical device/food/cosmetic sectors, specializing in pharmaceutical regulation, pricing and reimbursement, compliance, bribery and competition law issues relating to promotional and marketing practices in the industry, anti-counterfeiting strategies, M&A, and restructuring of business operations.
Ms. Choi’s representative work in recent years includes advising pharmaceutical clients in negotiating price and reimbursement scope of innovative drugs as well as in renewal of contract under a Risk Sharing Program. She also advised on a major multinational pharmaceutical company in a drug price reduction and reimbursement suspension case due to alleged illegal marketing activities. Ms. Choi also regularly advises clients in negotiating settlement discussions on alleged adverse effect cases in clinical studies and product liabilities litigations.
Ms. Choi has vast experience advising multiple clients in the pharmaceutical industry in a wide range of internal and government investigations for corporate fraud, corruption, fair trade law, and anti-bribery offenses.
Christopher Chan
General Counsel, APAC at Jones Lang LaSalleChristopher Y. Chan is currently the APAC General Counsel at Jones Lang LaSalle. Chris oversees 70 members of the legal team in Asia and serves on JLL’s Asia Pacific Executive and Global Legal Boards. Before his stint at JLL, Chris joined Alibaba as their EVP for legal and Government Affairs after selling his e-commerce grocery to them. He was also the first Federal Circuit Judicial Clerk to Hon. Raymond T. Chen, litigated patents for Finnegan, and was a management consultant in India.
Chris' service extends beyond his professional roles, with over 20 years of bar leadership. From being an ABA Law Student Regional Governor to serving as President of the APABA-DC and its Educational Fund, NAPABA Convention Co-Chair, DC Mayor’s Commission on Asian Pacific Islander Affairs, and ACC Singapore Chapter Board. He has been honored with several recognitions, including the ACC’s Top-10-30-Somethings, Asia Legal Business’ Southeast Asia's In-house Lawyer of the Year, NAPABA Best-Under-40, and Case Western’s Distinguished Recent Alumni of the Year. In addition, Chris enjoys rock climbing, sailing, and hosting at his rooftop craft beer speakeasy in Singapore.
Shemane Chan
Partner, Construction & Projects and Energy & Resources at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLPShemane Chan, a qualified lawyer in both Singapore and Malaysia, specialises in project and front-end construction work and has an MSc in Built Environment (Construction Economics and Management). Shemane has vast experience in drafting procurement, construction, engineering, consultancy, concession, privatisation, dismantling and maintenance contracts.
Shemane has been recommended in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific since 2014 for Projects and Energy, and Real Estate and Construction, Chambers Asia Pacific since 2014 for Projects and Energy, and International Financial Law Review 1000 since 2014 for Energy and Infrastructure. She is named as an Asialaw leading lawyer and also a nominated finalist for the 2015 Infrastructure Lawyer of the Year by the Asian Lawyer Emerging Markets Awards.
Yolanda Chan
Managing Director of Axiom Law (APAC)As Managing Director for Axiom, Yolanda Chan oversees the strategic business development, client services, brand transformation and market expansion to drive Axiom’s solutions and services across the Asia Pacific region. She brings with her more than 20 years of management experience in the technology, consumer electronics and legal industries.
Before joining Axiom, Yolanda served as Vice President and General Manager of Asia Pacific for Fitbit, a global leader in the health and fitness industry. At Fitbit, she launched the new fitness tracker category across eight countries of Asia Pacific and drove significant brand impact throughout the region. Prior to Fitbit, Yolanda was Vice President of Asia Pacific for Promethean, a global creator of innovative teaching and learning technologies for the education sector. At Promethean, Yolanda founded their Asia Pacific footprint and led the company’s regional expansion across 13 countries.
Before her time with Promethean, Yolanda served as Regional Director of Microsoft Home and Entertainment Division, where she was responsible for the management and leadership of Asia’s overall sales, distribution and retail strategies for Xbox consoles and games, PC accessories and games, as well as home and student software. Yolanda was at Microsoft for twelve years, where she advanced through a range of leadership roles across the region.
Yolanda earned a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Washington State University in the United States. She loves travelling, reading, music, badminton, bowling, and mountain hiking.
Anil Changaroth
Partner, Appropriate Dispute Resolution Practice at RHTLaw Asia LLPAnil Changaroth, a partner of RHTLaw Asia, is an international Mediator, Adjudicator, Arbitrator, Dispute Board is an Appropriate Dispute Resolution Practitioner, dealing with civil, commercial (including primarily Construction & Infrastructure), criminal and corporate matters. Anil serves as the SCCA’s honorary legal advisor and the Asia Pacific Corporate Counsel Alliance’s director of membership and international relations. He also holds a Masters of Science in Construction Law & Arbitration (King’s College London & National University of Singapore), Graduate Certificates in Law & Technology and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (Singapore Management University), Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (University of Cambridge Judge Business School), Restorative Justice, Emotional Quotient Coaching, International Investor State Mediation (Centre of Effective Dispute Resolution) and in 2019 published his book Resolving Disputes – A Guide to Appropriate Dispute Resolution.
Ipshita Chaturvedi
Partner at Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLPIpshita Chaturvedi is a partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Corporate practice group and co-heads the Environment and Natural Resources practice which includes carbon transactions, business and human rights, supply chain management, sustainable finance as well as the environment and social aspects in M&A transactions.
With over 13 years of experience in practicing environmental law and natural resources management, Ipshita has worked extensively with the private sector helping them transition to more sustainable processes, various governments and regulators (South Asia, ASEAN, European, and from the MENA region), as well as international organisations like the United Nations providing clients with a 360-degree understanding of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and various issues around sustainability – such as compliance, access to sustainable finance, policy advisory, sustainability reporting and avoidance of greenwashing.
Prior to joining Dentons, Ipshita was the founding partner of an award-winning law firm offering end-to-end services exclusively on matters of sustainable development including environmental compliance and regulation, ESG strategy, scaling up clean-technology (venture-capital), waste management and EPR related matters, carbon offsets and finance, as well as water law and oceans governance.
Greg Chew
General Counsel & Chief Legal Officer at Nanyang Technological UniversityGreg is General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU).
Greg was Vice President, Legal at Firmenich before he joined NTU. He also held other in-house positions at Motorola and Keppel Offshore & Marine. Greg spent time in private practice at Ashurst, and Allens Arthur Robinson, in their projects, energy, infrastructure, transport and construction practice.
Greg is a British citizen, Australian citizen and Singapore PR. He received his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (Hons) from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, his Bachelor of Commerce (Banking and Commercial Law) from Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, and his Graduate Diploma in Business (Marketing) from Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. Greg is also a qualified company secretary and a member of the Chartered Governance Institute.
Greg is passionate about “People” and “Purpose”.
Daniel Choo
Co-President at Singapore Corporate Counsel AssociationDaniel serves as Co-President of the Singapore Corporate Counsel Association (SCCA), and is the Co-Chair of Data Protection & Cybersecurity Chapter and Student Chapter. He is also part of the Executive Committee (representing SCCA) with In-house Counsel Worldwide (ICW).
Daniel is also currently Associate General Counsel and Privacy Responsible (APAC), Asia Pacific at Bruker, a German & American based manufacturer of high-performance scientific instruments and medical devices. Daniel heads the APAC legal team that covers legal & compliance, M&A, data protection/privacy matters for China, India, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Daniel graduated with a degree in law from University of Leeds. He holds active IAPP Certificates such as CIPP/A, CIPM and CIPP/E. Recently, he completed the SAL-INSEAD Legal Leadership Programme.
Jansen Chow
Co-Head, Fraud, Asset Recovery & Investigations at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLPJansen co-heads the firm’s Fraud, Asset Recovery & Investigation practice and covers a wide range of commercial matters with a strong emphasis on cross-border disputes.
A leading practitioner in Cryptocurrency and Digital Technology, Jansen successfully obtained Singapore’s first reported case of a worldwide mareva injunction against “Persons Unknown” and third party disclosure orders against cryptocurrency exchanges.
Jansen also specialises in Anti-Corruption and Regulatory Investigations, having acted for one of the largest Singapore conglomerates in a highly publicised corruption scandal in Brazil. This was the first ever FCPA resolution involving a Singaporean company, and an unprecedented global settlement co-coordinated with criminal authorities in three jurisdictions in the U.S., Brazil and Singapore. The firm was awarded “Boutique or Regional Practice of the Year” at the Global Investigations Review Awards in 2018 for its role in this matter, which was also nominated for “Most Important Development of the Year”.
Hsu Li Chuan
Senior Partner at Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLPHsu Li Chuan is a Senior Partner in the Dentons Rodyk’s Corporate practice group and Co-Head the Fintech/Blockchain practice. Li Chuan also Co-Head the Regional practice group and the Singapore-China relationship partner. His main areas of practice encompass corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and Blockchain & DLT. He is effectively bilingual in both English and Chinese and has advised various Chinese clients and companies. He actively advised on fund-raising projects from start-up to pre-IPO and post-IPO, across a range of jurisdiction and exchanges via traditional debt or equity securities, security, and non-security tokens. Li Chuan’s extensive M&A experience has represented multiple companies, ranging from property, PE funds, sovereign wealth funds, listed companies and fintech and Blockchain & DLT companies in investment and M&A transactions across Asia-Pacific, Oceania, and Europe.
Li Chuan is recognised in legal directories Legal500 and IFLR 1000 for both Capital Markets and Corporate/M&A. He was also listed in Asian Legal Business in 2016 as a top 40 under 40. Clients have remarked that he is “highly responsive and professional, provided solutions and accommodated all requests willingly”, and is “very sharp” and “patient and professional”.
Renita Sophia Crasta
Co-President at Singapore Corporate Counsel AssociationRenita serves as the Co-President of Singapore Corporate Counsel Association (SCCA) and is the Co-Chair of the Sustainability Chapter, Real Estate Chapter and Women’s Chapter. She also sits on the General Council and Steering Committee (representing SCCA) with In-house Counsel Worldwide (ICW).
Renita is also currently a Group Legal Counsel and Group Data Protection Officer with a real estate company. Following her graduation from NUS Faculty of Law, Renita joined Allen & Gledhill LLP, where she acquired both Litigation and Corporate experience during her 7 years there, before moving in-house with several real estate landlord/developer entities, including Ascendas and CapitaLand over the past 10 years, covering both local and international portfolios.
She has since completed a Masters of Law and Public Administration, as well as attended the SMC and SIMC courses, along with the SAL Specialist Accreditation Course in Construction Law. For her various efforts, she was awarded the ALB Young In-House Lawyer of the Year Award for 2020, and has been named a finalist for the ALB Woman In-House of the Year Award 2021 and 2022.
Savantha De Saram
Senior Partner at D. L. & F. De SaramSavantha has a proven track record of success in the legal industry, having served as the firm's Managing Partner for several years. With more than 20 years of experience working with the firm, he has developed a deep understanding of the legal landscape in Sri Lanka and the complexities of doing business in this market.
As an expert in foreign investment, M&A and corporate law, government procurement, and infrastructure development, Savantha has played a critical role in advising clients on complex transactions and strategic initiatives. His broad knowledge and practical experience have enabled him to deliver successful outcomes for clients across a range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, energy, and telecommunications.
Savantha serves on the boards of several listed companies, where he provides valuable insights and expertise to help guide their growth and success.
Adam Emilianou
Head of Corporate Services & General Counsel at Eastern Pacific Shipping Pte. Ltd.Adam Emilianou is Head of Corporate Services & General Counsel at Eastern Pacific Shipping with responsibility for all legal, compliance, insurance and employment matters across the group.
Adam has over 20 years’ experience advising on a wide range of practice areas, with a focus on shipping and maritime law. At Eastern Pacific Shipping, he is involved in many of the ESG policies that are at the centre of the group’s strategy, including the investment and adoption of maritime, supply chain and sustainability-related technology.
Adam is a member of the board of North Standard P&I Club. Prior to joining Eastern Pacific Shipping, he was in private practice with Allen & Overy LLP in London, New York and Singapore and Chrysses Demetriades & Co LLC in Cyprus. Adam holds an MBA from INSEAD and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Bristol. He is a qualified Solicitor in England and Wales.
Nicholas Fell
Executive Vice President & General Counsel at BW GroupNicholas Fell is an Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the BW Group. He is currently also a Director of North Standard P&I, Chairman of the Documentary Committee of BIMCO, an Associate Mediator of the Singapore Mediation Centre, and is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.
In his role as General Counsel of the BW Group, Nick oversees the Legal, Insurance and Corporate Secretarial departments of the Group. Nick has worked with BW since 2012.
Prior to joining BW, Nick was Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel for AET Group (a tanker owner and operator). From 1996 to 2005, Nick worked in San Francisco as In House Counsel at GATX Financial Corporation and as a management consultant with A.T. Kearney. He has also practiced law in Hong Kong and California.
Nick has an LLB from University of Liverpool, an LLM from the University of Leicester and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He is qualified as an attorney in England, Hong Kong, New York and California.
Aprilda Fiona
Partner at AFHS LawFirm- INDONESIA - BANKRUPTCY & SUSPENSION OF PAYMENTS: CREDITORS’ APPROACHES
- INDONESIA - LEGAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE CURRENT DEVELOPMENT ON CARBON TRADING
Aprilda Fiona is a Partner at AFHS LawFirm and specializes in (i) Corporate, commercial (domestic and cross border), and capital market transactions; (ii) Bankruptcy and suspension of payment; (iii) Shipping matters; (iv) Criminal litigation; (v) Internal investigation; (vi) Prosecution and litigation in courts.
Fiona’s areas of strength and experience include handling crises in civil and corporate crime matters. She has also had a handful of experience in bankruptcy matters. An energetic lawyer with practical thinking, Fiona is known by clients as a troubleshooter who can be very effective in managing their crises.
With those strengths at hand, she has helped various local and multinational companies in handling their crises mainly on civil and corporate crime matters. Fiona has also represented creditors and debtors in both bankruptcy and suspension of payment processes. As a registered receiver, she has extensive experience in acting as a receiver of bankrupt companies.
Fiona is a qualified capital market lawyer with experience in a variety of capital market transactions, including initial public offerings, rights issues, bonds issuance, and restructuring. In addition, she has assisted companies in their merger and acquisition processes, privatization, divestments and also establishing their investment companies in Indonesia. Furthermore, she is experienced in maritime and shipping issues.
Fiona graduated from one of the best law schools in Indonesia, the Faculty of Law Padjajaran University, Bandung.
Mark Fraser
Managing Partner at Frasers Law CompanyMark has been advising clients on transactions in Vietnam since 1994. In 2004, he founded Frasers Law Company, the first law firm to obtain a foreign law company licence in Vietnam.
In the 20+ years that Mark has been based in Vietnam, Mark’s practice has focused on corporate matters, especially mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, restructuring and insolvency, commercial real estate transactions, and infrastructure projects. This involves debt and equity structuring of investment projects and the preparation and negotiation of documents. Mark has been involved in numerous power generation, water treatment, road tollway, telecommunications, and oil and gas projects in various jurisdictions within Asia and has advised on a plethora of Vietnamese matters in the banking and finance, corporate and commercial, infrastructure, capital markets, property development and dispute resolution areas.
Mark’s international legal expertise and in-depth knowledge of Vietnam, as much from a legal perspective as commercially, are well renowned, and he is ranked as a top tier lawyer practising in Vietnam by publications such as The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Asialaw Profile, Chambers Asia Pacific, Chambers Global and IFLR 1000.
Mark has more than 25 years’ experience on advising clients from all over the globe, and was previously based in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Brunei (as well as Ho Chi Minh City) with the same Magic Circle law firm for more than ten years.
Joy Fuyuno
Asia Regional Director, Commercial & Strategic Projects of MicrosoftJoy Fuyuno is Asia Regional Director, Commercial & Strategic Projects for Microsoft, based in Singapore. Prior to this role, Joy was the Asia Financial Services Industry Legal & Regulatory Lead and the Director of Competition Law for Asia for Microsoft. Joy joined Microsoft and moved to Singapore in 2011.
Joy co-authored a chapter on Responsible AI in the recently published book, Artificial Intelligence in Finance: Challenges, Opportunities and Regulatory Developments.
Joy has practiced law for over 25 years, sixteen based in Asia (Singapore and Japan). Prior to joining Microsoft, Joy was a partner in White & Case LLP’s Tokyo office. She is admitted to the California bar and graduated from Stanford University and Columbia Law School.
Prerena Gandhi
Head of Legal at AmazonPrerna Gandhi is Head of Legal at Amazon Consumer, Singapore. She was previously the lead counsel supporting Kindle eBooks, Alexa content (which covers Alexa skills and voice services), and Amazon devices (Kindle e-readers and Echo devices) teams in India and South East Asia. Prior to joining Amazon, Prerna spent a decade at law firms in Singapore, London, and Mumbai at Sidley Austin LLP, Latham & Watkins, and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, respectively advising on equity and debt securities transactions in the US, India, Singapore, and Indonesia.
Prerna is dual qualified in New York and India and obtained a Masters in law from the NYU School of Law, New York, and her Bachelor’s degree in law from the National Law School of India, Bangalore.
Justin Gisz
Partner at Frasers Law Company- VIETNAM - Updates in the M&A Landscape: Current trends & outlook in the Vietnam market
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Justin is a mergers, acquisitions and corporate advisory law specialist, who advises investment funds (PE, VC, public, and institutional) as well as corporate investors and high-net-worth individuals, across a diverse range of industry sectors in connection with their investment and business activities in Vietnam.
During his 14 years of practising law in Vietnam, Justin has also developed high levels of experience and expertise in other key areas of law, including capital markets, real estate, construction, technology, media, telecommunications, intellectual property, and employment law.
Justin’s clients (in his core practice area of corporate and M&A, in addition to his various ancillary practice areas) include public and private investment funds from all over the world, in addition to global and regional industry leaders across a diverse range of industry sectors, including FMCG, wholesale and retail distribution, fintech, e-commerce, property development, manufacturing, telecommunications, and hospitality and gaming.
Justin is held in high esteem in the Vietnam legal market not only for his technical excellence, but also for his commercial sense and inherent pragmatism. Having spent nearly five years as an in-house general counsel for a large multi-national conglomerate in addition to his experience as a private practitioner, Justin offers depth and breadth of commercial understanding that are unparalleled in the legal profession in Vietnam.
Justin is highly ranked as a leading practitioner in Vietnam, by all of the most reputable international law firm guides, including Legal 500, Chambers & Partners, IFLR, and Asia Law.
Dr Francis Goh
Digital Innovation Leader, Cloud Innovation Centre at Amazon Web ServicesFrancis Goh is the Digital Innovation Leader, for Amazon, leading innovation engagements with key clients of Amazon in the region. In 2016, he founded Hehsed Consulting, which specializes in Corporate strategy, innovation, CX, Agile, and leadership strategies. He was also a mentor at NTU Nanyang (MBA) Business School. Prior to this, he was the CEO at the global HR consulting firm, Mercer and President CEO at Fujitsu Singapore.
Francis has 28 years of international experience in the technology and energy industries, having had numerous P&L and high-impact leadership roles with global leaders such as Accenture, SAP, HP, Microsoft, and ExxonMobil. During this time, Francis has lived and worked across Asia, Europe, and the United States.
Francis specializes in the areas of emerging solutions, breakthrough business models, and innovation. He has a proven track record in building #high-performance teams and overachieving both revenue and profit targets consistently. He has a strong reputation for developing and deploying new business go-to-market strategies across sales, operations, and resource management. He establishes core innovative business models which further enhanced brand positioning and grew both topline and profits as a result. Francis is a hands-on leader with deep solution and value-selling expertise across a broad spectrum of clients in the Asia Pacific region across industries such as Oil &Gas, FSI, telco, manufacturing, and the government sectors.
Pujarini Guha Maulik
Senior Vice President, Legal & Privacy at InMobiWith 18 years of experience as an in-house counsel, I am currently with InMobi as SVP Legal and heading a team of 20 in-house lawyers managing products and services that percolate 100+ countries. Mobile is the backbone of online advertising and smartphones have ensured that users are now consuming content on phones like never before, so, my exposure in InMobi / Glance has been diverse and nothing short of illuminating starting with setting up a team from scratch. I head the Privacy function of InMobi and Glance Group steering privacy governance across BUs.
Jonathan Guwe
Partner at Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLPJonathan Guwe is a partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Finance practice group and Co-Head of the Energy practice and the Vietnam desk. He handles complex cross-border transactions in emerging markets, successfully seeing multiple projects from inception to commercial operations, and is well-versed in managing unique challenges in such markets. He has experience in advising on the development of Projects from inception and drafting the various related documents such as consortium agreements, sale and purchase agreements (SPAs), shareholders’ agreements (SHAs), engineering, procurement and construction contracts (EPCs), fuel supply, operations and maintenance contracts (O&M), power purchase agreements (PPAs), build, operate and transfer contracts (BOT) and their related financing documents.
Jonathan’s experience in finance and commercial work encompasses a wide range of transactions including acquisition financing, project financing, bilateral and syndicated lending, asset-backed financing, ISDA transactions and trade finance, and pre-export financing. He has handled multiple transactions involved mergers, takeovers and joint ventures, and has acted for vendors, purchasers and financiers.
Trina Ha
Chief Legal Counsel at Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS)Ms Trina Ha is the Director of the Legal Department at IPOS where she manages the legal affairs of the IP office. Her work includes supporting IP policy reform, advising on IP issues in international agreements and advising public sector bodies on IP management issues. She also jointly spearheaded the Singapore Copyright Review with the Ministry of Law.
Before joining IPOS, Trina was in private practice where she specialised in matters involving the protection and management of intellectual property rights, particularly in the fields of entertainment and the arts. During her time in legal practice, she had been ranked in the intellectual property industry and TMT industry by the Asia Pacific Legal 500.
She is currently listed in the IAM Strategy 300 :The World’s Leading IP Strategists guide since 2020.
Ana Haynes
General Counsel – SEAK, Japan & India at EssilorLuxotticaAna Silvia Dias Haynes, dual Brazilian and British citizen, with over 22 years of solid experience working for and advising multinational and locally-based companies in Southeast Asia, South Korea, Japan & India, Brazil & Latin America, EMEA regions.
She has practiced in the São Paulo office of Baker & McKenzie between 1997-2005 as part of the M&A, Tax and Corporate teams, when she was actively involved in the preparation of bids for public and private partnerships, auctions, privatization, and selective proceedings; M&A projects of all sectors and tax and corporate structuring.
In 2005 she joined BG Group/Shell to be their Legal Manager for mid and downstream business, involving the structuring and negotiation of energy and gas supply agreements and deals to deliver energy and cogeneration solutions to industries and commercial business in Brazil and abroad, as well as vehicular natural gas to gas stations throughout different countries. While at BG Group she was promoted to lead the BG Group South Cone legal projects, including their shareholding position at the largest gas utility of the Brazil/Comgás and other Brazil/Bolivia gas pipeline and other legal matters.
She joined Diageo in 2007 to work as their South America region Senior Legal Manager, with the important role of building a solid locally based compliance and legal team, having a seat on the regional Comex Board, and acquiring selective assets and business in the region, as well as providing compliance support and implementing their AML and ABC policies in LatAm. In 2010 she joined the Diageo PLC head office in London as their Legal Counsel for Corporate, Compliance and support for FP&R/Finance team. As part of the Diageo experience, she participated in the auditing of a few business units and important M&A projects worldwide.
In Europe she also had the experience of head of Legal Compliance for the EMEA region at the AES Electric (part of the AES Corporation), involving the legal support for the development of their renewable energy and coal and gas-fired projects in EMEA, and leading the AES UK Bribery Act and FCPA based compliance program.
She returned to Brazil in 2014 up to mid-2021 was the General Counsel for Essilor in Brazil and Latin America, working in several M&A deals with a LatAm and Brazil Comex seats. She was also their local Compliance Director until 2019, when she developed their “Somos Essilor” compliance program in the region and helped to shape the compliance culture of the business to achieve their mission of “improving lives by improving sight”.
Ana Silvia joined the EssilorLuxottica SEAK, Japan, and India team as the General Counsel based in Singapore since 2022, to manage a team of initial 15, now 20 team members. Since mid-2021 she has actively participated in Asia Pacific projects, including selective buy-outs and partnerships, implementation of legal entities optimization, and integration of EssilorLuxottica business units in the region, also leads the regulatory team in the region.
Daniel Himpson
Head of Asia Pacific, Global Markets at Lex MundiDan develops strategies, resources, and services to help multinational companies address important cross-border legal risks and challenges inside and outside the region. He works with corporate counsel to build cross-border legal teams to meet specific requirements in the context of transactions, restructurings, compliance and regulation.
Delphine Ho
Independent Arbitrator & Mediator at The Arbitration ChambersMs Delphine Ho is a full-time independent arbitrator and mediator, with 20 years of experience as counsel, in the Singapore courts, and in an arbitral institution. She has been appointed in arbitrations as president, co-arbitrator and sole arbitrator, and has experience with both ad hoc and institutional arbitrations.
Delphine’s disputes expertise spans various sectors and industries, including construction and infrastructure, shareholder and JV, energy, commodities, transportation and technology.
Immediately prior to joining The Arbitration Chambers, Delphine was the Registrar of the Singapore International Centre and had oversight of the administration of thousands of arbitration cases filed with the SIAC and conducted under the SIAC Arbitration Rules, UNCITRAL Rules and other institutional rules.
Outside of her practice, Delphine teaches international arbitration at various levels, including developing advanced level arbitrator training programmes with the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.
John Ho
Head, Legal, Financial Markets at Standard Chartered BankJohn Ho is the Global Head of Legal, Financial Markets for Standard Chartered Bank (“SCB”), overseeing and providing legal advisory, transactional and documentation support for Financial Markets (FM) business globally for Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), its branches and affiliates. Mr Ho is on the FIA Asia Pacific Advisory Board. Mr. Ho is also the co-chair of (1) the ISDA South East Asia Legal and Regulatory Committee and (2) the ISDA Asia Pacific ESG Working group.
Mr. Ho plays an active role in implementing changes within SCB to conform to applicable OTC regulatory reforms impacting FM business. He has been involved in fostering closer working relationship and rapport with industry groups and regulators on key global and regional regulatory reform changes, including Interbank Offered Rate (IBOR) reforms, MIFID II/MIFIR, Dodd Frank, EMIR, CRDIV, FATCA, CCPs and Margin Reforms for Uncleared Derivatives.
In addition, Mr. Ho has supported digitisation in SCB and adoption of new or innovative technology initiatives such as blockchain, distributed ledger technology and smart contracts. He is an active participant in the industry’s Fintech events and has shared insights on the legal and regulatory framework relating to the development of Fintech, Digital Assets, Stablecoins, Web3 and Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). He has acted as a mentor for the UK FCA Sustainability TechSprint, FCA Digital Sandbox, R3 and LongHash, both global incubator networks which provide a full range of support for start-ups working on blockchain or distributed ledger related projects. He co-authored a publication issued by the World Economic Forum (WEF) called The Digital Currency Governance Consortium Whitepaper in 2021 and is on the WEF CBDC Principles working group.
Prior to joining SCB, Mr. Ho was the Managing Director Principal in the legal department of Bear Stearns (Japan), Ltd (“Bear Stearns”) where he supported the Asia franchise (including Tokyo, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Korea, India and South-east Asia) from January 2003 to August 2008 covering various structured products and derivatives including equity derivatives, credit derivatives, fixed income and commodities.
Prior to joining Bear Stearns, Mr. Ho worked as Asia equity counsel for Lehman Brothers in Tokyo with experience dealing in convertibles, options, warrants, delta one products and other types of equity derivatives transactions, equity finance and equity capital markets.
He is qualified as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore since 1995 and he received his law degree from the National University of Singapore.
Rebecca Hong
APJ General Counsel at AutodeskRebecca started her career in private practice, including with Magic Circle firm Linklaters in London and Hong Kong, where she worked on M&A and Corporate transactions. In 2003 she joined Intel Capital (venture capital arm of Intel Corporation) as their Senior Attorney supporting venture capital investments and related M&A work throughout APAC. Since then, she accumulated rich commercial legal experience and deep technology knowledge supporting different business groups within Intel Corporation, most recently as Managing Counsel for the Sales and Marketing Group.
At the start of 2023, Rebecca is appointed the General Counsel for APJ at Autodesk and manages a team of over ten lawyers and legal professionals in the region. Rebecca is currently based in Singapore and she is happy to have returned to her home country after 23 years away.
Rebecca currently serves on the Board of HandsOn Hong Kong, a charity NGO that mobilises volunteers for over 50 charities by leveraging on technology. Rebecca is also deeply passionate about mentoring professionals and was part of The Women’s Foundation for many years. Rebecca is a mother to three young teenagers and continues juggling her time with the different roles she plays.
Matthew Hunter
Head of Legal & Company Secretary at Trust BankMatt is the Head of Legal and Company Secretary at Trust Bank in Singapore. Matt has worked in the financial services industry and in the technology sector. Matt is passionate about digital transformation, including in the legal industry. He has experience in building legal teams, functions, and processes at start-up companies.
Faz Hussen
Head of Legal, Compliance & Government Relations at McDonald's SingaporeFaz has been Head of Legal, Compliance and Government Relations at McDonald’s Singapore since 2015. It has been his privilege to have helped grow and lead the legal and cross-functional teams to deliver concise, practical commercial contracts, advice and solutions, as well as develop compliance infrastructure, investigation protocols and internal training. He has recently been made Head of Sustainability for McDonald’s Singapore as well.
Having been both in private practice and in-house practice for almost 2 decades, Faz has experience in litigation as well as transactional matters at Tan Kok Quan and Wong Partnership respectively. He also has Public and Private sectors experience given his time advising on research & development and related agreements, clinical trials, technology licences as well as the public sector issues as legal counsel with the Agency for Science Technology and Research (ASTAR) before his role in McDonald’s. He was part of the McDonald’s team that transitioned the franchise for Singapore and Malaysia from under the McDonald’s Corp ownership. Faz has been repeatedly named as one of the leading influential in-house lawyers in business in Asia in The Legal 500: GC Powerlist.
Beyond his professional roles, Faz serves on the Football Association of Singapore disputes panel as well as the Vice-Chairman of the Singapore Anti-Doping Association. Faz is passionate about travel and real estate development, having taken 2 Round-the World trips on sabbaticals, and being well-travelled, he loves to discuss global insights and perspectives on business and cultural issues that matter in today's connected world.
Chua Hwee Ping
Vice President, International Legal & Compliance at MSD International GmbH (Singapore Branch)Hwee Ping CHUA is the Vice President, International Legal & Compliance of MSD and supports the company’s ex-U.S. human health commercial operations across more than 100 countries, as well as the ex-U.S. activities of research & development, manufacturing, and Animal Health divisions. She oversees a team of approximately 130 Legal & Compliance professionals across 4 regions (namely Europe/Canada, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Eastern Europe Middle East & Africa) and 2 major markets (namely China and Japan).
Prior to joining MSD, she was the Regional Counsel of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (“BMS”) (between 2002 and 2007), based in Singapore supporting Asia Pacific & China markets. She was the first legal counsel appointed by BMS in the region. Before going in-house, Hwee Ping was a corporate and commercial litigator in private practice in Singapore.
Hwee Ping has Master of Law degrees from Nottingham Trent University and the University of Melbourne, and a Bachelor of Law (Hons) degree from National University of Singapore. She is admitted to practice law in Singapore and in the State of New York. She was recently awarded the 2021 Chief Legal Office Award (Global MNC category) from the Singapore Corporate Counsel Association.
Loh Jen Wei
Senior Partner at Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLPLoh Jen Wei is a Senior Partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group and Co-Head of the Shipping practice.
Jen Wei's practice is in civil and commercial litigation and international arbitration. She acts for and advises clients on a range of transport and trade related disputes including charterparties, mortgage enforcement, commodity sale contracts, marine and cargo insurance, and carriage of goods by sea and air. She also regularly advises clients on trade related regulatory and compliance issues. She handles contentious shipping and admiralty matters in the Singapore courts and in arbitration, and advises ship owners, charterers, banks, shipyards and marine insurers.
Jen Wei also advises major insurance companies in medical malpractice disputes and specialises in medical defence work and represents hospitals and medical practitioners.
In addition to her work as counsel, Jen Wei is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has been appointed as arbitrator in several international arbitrations.
Hanjo KIM
Attorney at Kim & Chang- KOREA - Recent Trends & Real Cases of Corporate Investigations
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Hanjo Kim is an attorney at Kim & Chang, focusing on white-collar criminal defense, anti-corruption, and corporate compliance issues. He also has extensive experience in fair trade, customs, and tax matters, with particular expertise in advising foreign and domestic clients on various aspects of cross-border criminal and regulatory investigations, as well as complex corporate investigations.
Prior to joining Kim & Chang, Mr. Kim served as a public prosecutor for about 15 years. As a public prosecutor, he was involved in investigations, prosecutions and trials of various criminal cases, including white-collar crime, fraud, tax evasion and customs violations. Additionally, he represented the Korean government for the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), handling a wide range of international trade law and arbitration issues.
Mr. Kim received an LL.B. from Seoul National University College of Law in 2000 and his LL.M. from Duke University School of Law in 2009. He graduated from the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea in 2002. He is admitted to the Korean bar.
Helen Heoun Joo KIM
Attorney at Kim & ChangHelen Kim is a senior attorney at Kim & Chang. She has extensive experience in the areas of corporate law, corporate investigations, dispute resolution, crisis management, and public affairs. She has advised a diverse array of multinational clients through various disputes and situations they have faced while doing business in Korea, which often require cross-jurisdictional advice and support. Her specialty is in managing high profile crises which involve multiple stakeholders both within and outside the legal sector.
Ms. Kim is a member of the firm's Singapore office, well positioned to provide on the ground services for clients situated in Singapore and elsewhere in the Asia Pacific region.
Jasmine Karimi
Assistant General Counsel, Regional Counsel, APAC at FMC CorporationJasmine leads the Legal & Compliance teams across Asia Pacific for FMC Corporation. FMC is an NYSE listed agricultural sciences company, with a proud history spanning over a century, providing innovative solutions to growers around the world with a robust product portfolio in crop protection, plant health, and professional pest and turf management.
A seasoned General Counsel, Jasmine brings rich multi-industry and cross-cultural perspective to strategy, problem solving and risk management, having led Legal & Compliance teams across diverse sectors (Media, Manufacturing, Luxury Retail, Healthcare, Agro Science), in MNCs in the US, UK, Canada, HK & Singapore.
A frequently invited speaker at industry and professional forums globally, Jasmine is a licensed attorney in England & Wales, Singapore, Canada, and Hong Kong. In addition to the Board of ACC Singapore, Jasmine is a Governor at the American Chamber of Commerce, Singapore, serves on the SIAC Users Council and was previously the President of ACC Hong Kong. Jasmine has been named as one of the leading influential in-house lawyers in business in Asia in The Legal 500: Corporate Counsel 100 Asia and featured in the inaugural edition of the World’s Leading General Counsels book.
Vivek Kathpalia
Managing Director & CEO – Singapore of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas- INDIA - ‘Eye on India’: A legal, commercial & political round-up on India
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Vivek Kathpalia has over 24 years of experience, 16 of which have been in Singapore as a licensed foreign lawyer. He has vast experience of advising varied international clientele in Singapore, Japan, USA and globally, with respect to their Indian law requirements. He has been a part of marquee transactions and has assisted leading companies enter India.
His experience is in broad range of practise areas including M&A, PE & VC, Transactions, Technology, Telecom and Education. He also practised as a solicitor in the Bombay high court in his early days as an advocate.
He is a registered foreign lawyer in Singapore since 2007.
Kelvin Kek
Partner at Allen & Gledhill LLPKelvin’s areas of practice encompass various aspects of commercial disputes, both in litigation and international arbitration. These matters include JV-related disputes, directors’ duties, shareholder disputes and various property-related issues. The cross-border nature of his work often necessitates travel to other jurisdictions like Malaysia, Indonesia, and India. Kelvin is also listed as a key lawyer in leading legal publications both in the field of construction and international arbitration.
As part of his construction practice, Kelvin frequently advises on large-scale infrastructural and engineering disputes. In particular, he has acted for a government-linked entity in a $100 million dispute over the construction and operation of a coal-fired power plant; and for a multinational contractor in contentious proceedings before a FIDIC-appointed dispute adjudication board in claims of over S$120 million arising from the construction of a hydro-electric power plant. Both matters deal with complex issues of delay, acceleration, and defect rectification.
Locally, Kelvin acts for publicly-listed developers and owners in various disputes over the construction and design of commercial and infrastructure developments in Singapore. He has also advised a number of Singaporean statutory boards on a variety of construction claims against contractors and sub-contractors. He often prosecutes and defends substantial claims in construction adjudications under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act (Cap 30B).
Kelvin also acts for employers in various employment disputes, fraud/corruption investigations, and has experience in dealing with high profile white collar criminal matters. In 2015, Kelvin acted as amicus curiae in a criminal matter concerning offenses under the Securities and Futures Act (Cap 289) before a Court of three judges under the Supreme Court’s Young Amicus Curiae Scheme.
Kelvin graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LL.B. (First Class Honours) degree in 2008. He was called to the Singapore Bar in 2009 and the New York State Bar in 2012. Prior to pursuing his legal career, Kelvin graduated from the National University of Singapore with a first degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering. Kelvin is recognized as an Accredited Specialist in Building and Construction Law by the Singapore Academy of Law and is an Accredited Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre.
Catherine Kemnitz
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Chief Strategy & Development Officer at AxiomCatherine Kemnitz is Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Chief Strategy and Development Officer at Axiom, the global leader in high-caliber, on-demand legal talent. Throughout her 9-year tenure at Axiom in senior U.S. and international roles, Ms. Kemnitz has brought her extensive experience to bear across a range of legal, strategic, commercial, corporate, development, and operations roles.
In her role as Chief Legal Officer, Ms. Kemnitz leads the global Legal & Compliance, Corporate Development, and Corporate Secretary functions. She played a key role in developing the strategy for and securing the regulatory approval that enabled the launch of Axiom Advice & Counsel, an Arizona-based law firm that is setting a new standard for the modern law firm by providing clients with better value for every dollar spent on outside counsel. Ms. Kemnitz is known for her strengths in driving strategic growth and high stakes transformation and continues to help drive Axiom’s strategic growth globally.
Throughout her 23-year career, Ms. Kemnitz has carved a reputation for successfully delivering innovative operational change strategies in tandem with meeting performance targets and managing risk globally. She is a recognized thought leader on issues related to innovation in and the transformation of the legal industry, contributing regularly to leading legal publications. Ms. Kemnitz is focused on cross-functional collaboration, team leadership, DE&I, and talent retention and development. Under her leadership, Axiom’s legal department received the Mansfield Implementation as a Foundation for Growth Award in 2022, a distinction granted to the legal department with 10 or fewer in-house lawyers that has been the most successful in building the foundational principles of Mansfield into the structure of its processes.
Prior to joining Axiom, Ms. Kemnitz held Corporate Development and Strategy roles at Thomson Reuters. Ms. Kemnitz started her career and spent 8 years as an associate in Capital Markets at Shearman & Sterling representing large public issuers and underwriters in a wide range of complex domestic and international corporate finance transactions.
Ms. Kemnitz graduated with a Master in Corporate and Commercial Law and Taxation from the Paris Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, France, and earner a and Master of Laws (LL.M) – Corporation Law from the New York University School of Law. Ms. Kemnitz is a native French speaker and fluent in Italian.
Loh Kia Meng
Chief Operating Officer & Senior Partner at Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLPLoh Kia Meng is a Senior Partner at Dentons Rodyk and its Chief Operating Officer. He sits on Dentons’ Global Advisory Committee and Dentons ASEAN’s Advisory Committee, comprising the board of various Dentons offices. Kia Meng also Co-Heads the following practices in the firm – Trust, Estates and Wealth Preservation Practice; High Net Worth & Family Office; Public Inquiries, White-Collar Investigations & Crime; Regional Practice. As a veteran lawyer with over two decades of experience, his practice straddles contentious and non-contentious matters. He has extensive experience with private client disputes that covers a wide range of legal issues involving litigation and arbitration. He also deploys alternative dispute resolution mechanisms such as mediation and negotiation to resolve disputes.
Kia Meng is an affiliate member of the Society of Trust and Estate Planners (STEP). He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb). He is appointed to the panel of arbitrators with the Thailand Arbitration Centre (THAC) and the Beihai Asia International Arbitration Centre (BAIAC). Kia Meng is also on the panel of Specialist Mediators with the Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC). As a COO, Kia Meng leads all business support functions of the firm, including Academy, Finance, Human Resource, Innovation, Information Technology, Marketing and Risk & Compliance.
Ave King
Deputy Head of Compliance at FalconXAve King is the Deputy Head of Compliance for FalconX, an Institutional Digital Asset Platform. Based in Singapore, Ave helps manage the Compliance and AML Global Program across the USA and International Entities. Ave began her career in London on the Listed Derivatives desk for Deutsche Bank and has since gained more than 20 years of experience in Regulatory Compliance, AML/CFT and Product Development. Prior to joining FalconX in 2022, Ave held positions at Bitstamp, Coinbase, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan and worked in Sydney and London. Ave is originally from Ireland but calls Singapore home where she is raising her two children as she continues to work in the exciting and nascent digital assets industry.
FalconX is a fully comprehensive digital asset platform (“FalconX 360”) allows institutions to access and manage all of their crypto strategies through a single interface and seamless workflows, making it easy to execute trading, credit and clearing all in one place.
Danny Kobrata
Partner at K&K AdvocatesDanny leads the Corporate & Technology Team at K&K Advocates, overseeing the corporate, commercial IP, and TMT practice groups. Over the years, Danny has advised domestic and international clients on various corporate matters, including mergers & acquisitions, project funding, company establishment, shareholder loan, JV agreement, and corporate secretarial matters. He has also advised clients on various Commercial IP matters, such as IP sales, IP licensing, and franchises in Indonesia. Meanwhile, his extensive experience in TMT includes privacy, e-commerce, advertising, and telecommunication. Danny has been involved in the formulation of various IT laws in Indonesia.
Among the trailblazers in Indonesian TMT law, Danny has advised clients from different industries, including movie platforms, oil, fin-tech, medical, payments, financial, and telecommunications, application-based transportation, ready-to-assemble furniture, F&B, technology, gaming, and e-commerce. His articles on technology issues (particularly on privacy) have been published in national newspapers. He has also acted as a speaker in different
law seminars in Indonesia and is currently a lecturer at one of the leading private universities in Indonesia.
Edmund Koh
Legal Counsel at SWIFTEdmund is currently a legal counsel at Swift. Starting out his career in the area of financial disputes, and then in the technology industry, Edmund is now working on issues intersecting the financial services and technology sectors. He has a sound understanding of the legal landscape surrounding the latest technological advancements, and uses this to provide strategic insights on complex technology issues.
Penny Koo
General Counsel & Company Secretary at AIA SingaporeMs. Penny Koo is the General Counsel and Company Secretary of AIA Singapore. As part of the AIA Singapore management team, Penny supports the company's continued business growth and transformational strategies with her legal expertise and strong track record, delivering success across the Group. She is responsible for all legal and corporate secretarial matters and leads her team in providing strategic legal advice and commercial-minded, practical legal solutions for AIA Singapore and its subsidiaries.
Rita Kriz
Deputy General Counsel, Head of Legal - Asia/GCR at McKinsey & CompanyRita Kriz is the Deputy General Counsel and Head of Legal for Asia at McKinsey & Company. She leads a team of legal professionals across Asia in responding to legal matters. In her role, Rita provides strategic legal counsel and advice to leadership, oversees litigations and internal investigations, and mitigates legal risks over such diverse topics as sanctions, anti-corruption, privacy, public sector, geopolitics, and data management. At the FT Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers Awards in 2022, Rita’s team was recognized as the “most innovative in-house legal team in Asia-Pacific” and Rita herself received the FT Innovative Lawyers award for Talent Management.
Rita has over two decades of business, legal, government, and compliance experience. Prior to joining McKinsey, she engaged in private practice with a focus on M&A at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett in New York and Los Angeles and with White & Case in Singapore. In addition, she spent time in the public sector in San Francisco, where she established a compliance department responsible for tendering public infrastructure projects.
Rita graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelors of Arts in Economics and holds a JD from Harvard Law School.
Ganesh Kumar
Senior Advisor (Former Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India) at Cyril Amarchand MangaldasMr. Kumar has over 36 years of experience supervising Information Technology, Payment and Settlement Systems and External Investments and Operations. Most recently he has been at the forefront of integrating (and oversight over) technology and banking/ financial services. Mr. Kumar retired serving as Executive Director at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 2020 and was the Co-Chair of the Fintech Committee of the Financial Stability Board of the Bank for International Settlements, Basel. He recently joined IDFC First Bank as Independent Director.
He is an expert in digital payments and FinTech space in the country and has played a key role in framing the policy for Information Technology (IT) implementation in RBI and the Banking sector, apart from providing policy perspectives relating to IS Security, Audit and Compliance. He was associated with technology reforms in the Banking sector - right from MICR based cheque processing, to newer digital payment and settlement systems, and with the setting up of Institutions such as NPCI, IFTAS and ReBIT.
Sim Kwan Kiat
Head, Restructuring & Insolvency at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLPKwan Kiat heads the firm’s restructuring and insolvency practice group, the largest dedicated practice in this area in Singapore. His practice comprises disputes and advisory work, advising lenders and accounting firms in both domestic and cross-border disputes, and he has acted in various banking disputes, liquidations, receiverships and debt restructuring of local and foreign companies.
Kwan Kiat is consistently recognised as a market leading practitioner for his expertise in various global legal directories. He is also part of the expert group involved in the ongoing work in UNCITRAL Working Group V (Insolvency Law) on applicable law in insolvency proceedings, and is an Associate Mediator on the Insolvency Panel of the Singapore Mediation Centre.
Hoin LEE
Foreign Attorney at Kim & ChangHoin Lee is a senior foreign attorney at Kim & Chang, with expertise on labor and employment law issues. Mr. Lee also has extensive experience in finance matters (both regulatory and transactional).
Mr. Lee advises major private and not-for-profit employers on all aspects of employment and labor-related matters, including restructuring programs and early retirement plans, employment counseling, labor-management relations, collective bargaining negotiations and strategy, labor-related issues in M&A, crisis management, and business transfers and acquisitions.
Mr. Lee also has extensive experience advising banks and other financial institutions on banking and financial regulatory matters and litigations. He has worked with a number of foreign and domestic clients in Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) investigations and white collar crime cases, involving insider trading, market manipulation, breach of fiduciary duty and related issues. His expertise also covers securitizations of various types of financial assets.
Prior to joining Kim & Chang, Mr. Lee worked at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in its New York and Hong Kong offices.
Mr. Lee has been consistently recognized as a leading individual in his practice areas, including as one of the top tier practitioners in securitization by both Chambers Global and Chambers Asia-Pacific from 2017 to 2020, a leading lawyer in banking & finance and labour & employment by Asialaw Leading Lawyers 2017 and 2018, and an elite practitioner in capital markets by Asia Leading Lawyers 2020 and 2021.
Mr. Lee earned an LL.B. from Seoul National University College of Law in 1991, and his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 2000. He is admitted to the New York bar.
June Yong LEE
Foreign Attorney at Kim & Chang- KOREA - Recent Trends & Real Cases of Corporate Investigations
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June Lee is a foreign attorney in the EHS/Energy Practice and the Anti-Corruption & Corporate Compliance Practice at Kim & Chang. June’s practice includes regulatory counseling, internal investigation, criminal defense, litigation/arbitration, and transactional matters, with special focus on complex questions about the environmental & energy laws in Korea and the use of scientific information in law.
Joyce Lai
ESG & Sustainability - Group Legal & Compliance at DBS Bank LtdJoyce Lai leads a bank-wide ESG and Sustainability portfolio in Group Legal and Compliance. Ms Lai previously headed Treasury & Markets and Vickers - Legal and Compliance. Prior to joining DBS, Ms. Lai returned from London to join the Financial Markets, Legal team at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore. She trained and practiced at Slaughter and May in London and in Hong Kong, and then joined Clifford Chance LLP in London. She was also in-house counsel (derivatives/structured products) at BlueCrest Capital Management and at MUFG Securities in London. She is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales (October 1998), and in Hong Kong (April 2001). Ms. Lai was recognised on The Legal 500's Green GC Powerlist: Southeast Asia 2023.
Antony Lee
Deputy General Counsel, Asia Pacific & General Counsel, Singapore at HSBCAntony Lee is the General Counsel for HSBC Singapore and has held that appointment since Feb 2006. He also has a regional role as Deputy General Counsel, Asia Pacific for HSBC. He manages a team of more than 30 professionals responsible for the management of legal matters for all HSBC entities in Singapore and in the region.
Before HSBC, Antony has worked in various capacities in the banking sector and in private legal practice as a financial services and commercial lawyer.
Antony has been active in various professional and community bodies including the Singapore Corporate Counsel Association. He was accorded the Chief Legal Officer Award (MNC category) in 2022.
Antony is also an accredited mediator of the Singapore Mediation Centre and the Singapore International Mediation Centre. He has mediated a range of commercial and civil disputes.
Benatt Lee
Registrar at Singapore International Mediation CentreBenatt is currently the Registrar of the Singapore International Mediation Centre. He was a partner of Allen & Gledhill, a very well-established law firm in Singapore. He later joined Cambridge Associates LLC, a global investment consulting firm headquartered in Boston in the United States, serving as lead investment consultant to several large endowments and not-for-profit organizations both within and outside Singapore. In this role, he led the research and evaluation of traditional long-only equity, hedge fund and private real estate and distressed debt managers investing in Asia. His last role was as a Senior Director at Lion Global Investors, serving as the Head of Strategic Initiatives, Legal and Compliance. Benatt also spent a few years in academia as a member of the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore and is currently still engaged as an Adjunct Professor, teaching a course on the Law and Practice of Investment Management.
Benatt holds a Bachelor of Law from the National University of Singapore and a Master of Law from Columbia University. He graduated as an Amy and Richard F. Wallman Scholar from the Master of Business Administration program of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation awarded by the CFA Institute and remains on the Roll of Advocates and Solicitors of the Supreme Court of Singapore and the Roll of Solicitors of England and Wales.
Lyn Lee
Group Head, Legal at OCBC BankLyn Lee is Group Head, Legal at OCBC Bank. She manages teams that provide legal advisory, transaction management and documentation support to businesses in OCBC, including treasury, investment banking, corporate and commercial banking, consumer banking, transaction banking, trade finance, technology and operations. She also manages the Data Protection Office of OCBC Bank.
Lyn is an experienced Treasury and Investment Banking legal specialist who has been working in the Singapore banking industry since 2006. She was a senior treasury counsel at DBS Bank before moving to OCBC Bank in 2012 to head up the global treasury and investment banking legal team. She served as Co-Chair of ISDA Legal and Regulatory Committee from May 2016 to June 2019. She participates actively in industry workgroups facilitated by ISDA, ICMA and EMTA. She is currently actively involved in the SOR to SORA transitioning plans at the industry level and sits as a core member of the Legal Sub-Group under the industry level SC-STS (Steering Committee for SOR and SIBOR transition to SORA).
Lyn was conferred the IBF Fellow Award in Oct 2018 and she sits on one of IBF industry panels. She has been appointed as an independent non-executive director of DTCC Singapore since August 2018 and is the Acting Chair of the Audit Committee.
Prior to her career in the financial services industry, she was a legal practitioner of mergers and acquisitions transactions and corporate finance transactions in Allen & Gledhill and Rajah & Tann respectively, both leading law firms in Singapore. She also worked as a Senior Legal Counsel in the General Counsel’s Office at Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Lyn is passionate about leadership based on diversity and inclusion, coaching and mentoring and she is involved as a mentor in different programs at OCBC Bank. From March 2019 to March 2021, she sat on the OCBC Scholarship Committee, which grants bond-free scholarships to deserving applicants. She has been invited to speak about psychological safety at the workplace and to share her experience as a female leader in various events.
As a leader in the legal and compliance division in OCBC Bank, Lyn works closely with the HR partners on workforce transformation programmes and supports continuous learning, learning agility and growth mindset in the legal teams.
Lyn graduated with Bachelor of Laws (Dean’s List) from National University of Singapore. She further received her Master of Laws (LL.M.) from King's College London. She was called to the Singapore bar in 1999.
Lyn is a John Maxwell Team certified speaker, coach and trainer.
Regina Liew
Head, Financial Institutions Group at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLPRegina Liew has more than two decades of experience, and leads Rajah & Tann Singapore’s Financial Institutions Group. Regina has been listed in Best Lawyers for her specialist practice in derivatives and regulatory since 2008 and has been described as “phenomenal” by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific. She has also been recognised as a Band 1 lawyer for Banking & Finance: Regulatory by Chambers Asia Pacific since 2015, and is known to be "highly experienced in the Singapore market and has her finger on the pulse of financial institutions and regulators“. She has also been recognised as a “Highly Regarded” lawyer in Banking and Finance by IFLR1000 2022.
The FinTech practice she co-heads has been highly ranked since the inaugural Chambers Fintech (2019). She is described as a corporate lawyer “whose expertise is sought after for intricate Singapore financial regulatory matters” and “fully fluent in the financial sector” as well as “very good at listening to and understanding clients”. Regina was also named as a Recommended lawyer in Banking Regulatory by Who’s Who Legal 2022.
Angela Lim
Co-Head, Banking & Finance at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLPAngela Lim has experience acting for financial institutions (including commercial banks, private banks, investment banks and hedge funds) and borrowers (including corporates, private equity, funds and government linked companies) in a wide range of cross border banking and finance transactions, with particular expertise in acquisition leveraged financing, project financing, structured financing and real estate/construction financing transactions. She has led numerous transactions with cross border aspects in the region, including Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong SAR, India, Malaysia, Korea and UAE.
Angela has been named as a leading lawyer in Banking and Finance for several years by Chambers Asia Pacific, Chambers Global and Asialaw with clients describing her as “an experienced and business-savvy finance lawyer”. Chambers Global has noted that sources declare that "she really is very, very good" and "very thorough and able to achieve the objectives we want." Angela has been named as a leading lawyer in Banking & Finance, Energy and Infrastructure as well as Project Finance by IFLR 1000. She is also named as a Leading Lawyer in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, which has described her as a lawyer with “strong technical skills and practical approach to negotiation”. Angela has also been consecutively recognised as a Leading Lawyer in The Best Lawyers for Banking & Finance and Finance Law, and included as a leading female practitioner in Women in Business Law Expert Guides for Banking & Finance.
Debby Lim
Partner at Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLPDebby Lim is a partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice group and one of the first three Singapore-qualified practitioners to be bestowed the prestigious fellowship from INSOL International. She has a broad commercial practice with overlapping strengths in banking and finance disputes, insolvency and restructuring, domestic and international arbitrations. She has also acted in construction and property-related disputes, shareholder disputes. She focuses on all areas of contentious insolvency, asset recovery work (including major commercial disputes), fraud and investigations.
Currently serving as the Vice-Chair of the Law Society’s Insolvency Practice Committee, Debby has acted in some of the most prominent and complex cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters in the Asia-Pacific region. She has been noted as a leading lawyer in many publications including Chambers Asia, Legal 500 and Who’s Who in Legal Restructuring & Insolvency.
Larry Lim
Deputy Head, Financial Institutions Group at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLPLarry Lim co-leads Rajah & Tann Singapore’s Financial Institutions Group, a specialist advisory practice in the area of financial services. The Group is known for providing bespoke innovative and sophisticated legal solutions for complex legal and regulatory problems for financial institutions, and regularly provides legal solutions at the cutting edge of financial industry innovation, the more recent of which include, financial technology (“FinTech”), crowdfunding and virtual and digital currencies.
Larry practises in the specialist area of financial services regulation, compliance, transactions and documentation. Recognised for his work in Securitisation & Derivatives by Chambers Asia Pacific 2020, and his depth of experience and strong track record in the FinTech space by The Legal 500 2020, Larry was also named in the definitive “A-List” as one of Singapore’s top 100 lawyers 2018 by Asia Business Law Journal.
Iain MacDonald
General Counsel for Asia, Middle East & Africa at Lloyd's RegisterIain graduated in Law with French Language from the University of Glasgow, and Robert Schumann University, Strasbourg. He then completed a Masters’ Degree in European and International Law at the College of Europe, Bruges, before studying at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice.
His training contract was with Norton Rose in London from 2004 to 2006, with seats in Brussels and Singapore, before joining Clyde & Co in their Corporate and Commercial practice where he spent two and a half years prior to moving in-house with Lloyd’s Register in March 2009.
Lloyd's Register is a technical and professional services organisation and a maritime classification society, which is wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a UK charity dedicated to research and education in science and engineering. The organisation dates to 1760 and is the world’s oldest
classification society.
Iain was transferred from London to Dubai in 2012, in order to set up a number of regional entities and provide a more localised source of legal advice there. This posting lasted five years during which he became Area General Manager for Middle East & Africa in 2014, and then subsequently General Counsel for South Asia, Middle East & Africa in 2016. Iain then moved to Singapore in 2017, becoming General Counsel for the whole of Asia, Middle East and Africa.
In 2019 and 2022 he was named in the Legal500 GC Powerlist for Southeast Asia.
Saw Meng Tee
Managing Partner at EisnerAmper SingaporeSaw Meng Tee founded the Singapore firm in 1999 and led the firm to join EisnerAmper Global.
As a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner, he has been appointed as Liquidator for many voluntary winding-ups, creditor voluntary winding-ups and compulsory winding-ups by the court.
His appointments include private limited companies as well as companies listed on major International stock exchanges. Other appointments he has taken on include being a Receiver on behalf of the creditors. His appointments include companies in Construction, Commodities, Fintech -Financial Services, Electronic Products, Fund Management, Oil & Gas and Shipping.
Ramesh Moosa
Asean & Singapore Forensic & Integrity Services Leader at EY Forensic & Integrity ServicesRamesh Moosa is the EY Asean and Singapore Forensic & Integrity Services Leader. He has more than 27 years of experience in forensic investigation, dispute & litigation support, expert witness, digital forensics & eDiscovery, data analytics and cybersecurity services.
His international experience spans the US, Greater China, and other Asia-Pacific countries, serving clients subject to regulatory cases enforced by the Singapore Exchange, US Securities and Exchange Commission, US Department of Justice, Monetary Authority of Singapore, HK Monetary Authority, HK Securities and Futures Commission and the HK Competition Commission. He has supported regulatory agencies in their enforcement activities, provided expert testimony in the High Court of the Hong Kong SAR, and prepared expert reports for cases at the High Court of Singapore and the International Arbitration Centres in Singapore and Hong Kong.
Ramesh started his career as a senior officer in the Singapore Police Force where he served as a criminal investigator and later managed the agency’s IT infrastructure and data security operations. From 2000 to 2020, Ramesh worked at another Big 4 accounting firm at its offices in Singapore, US and Greater China, before joining EY. Ramesh is a founding council member of the Association of Information Security Professionals in Singapore. He frequently speaks at conferences on topics related to Forensic Investigations, Cybersecurity, Ethics, and Compliance. He holds an MBA and Engineering degree, CPA, CFE, and CCI qualifications. He is a fellow at the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and fluent in English and Mandarin.
Kevin Nash
Registrar at Singapore International Arbitration CentreAs Registrar of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Kevin leads the SIAC Secretariat in the provision of case management services. Over the course of the past decade, Kevin has overseen the administration of thousands of international cases under all versions of the SIAC Rules and the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. Under the Singapore International Arbitration Act 1994, Kevin is the statutory taxation authority and he is empowered to authenticate and certify awards and arbitration agreements.
Kevin worked closely on the revisions to the SIAC Rules 2013, SIAC Rules 2016, SIAC Investment Arbitration Rules 2017, and leads the SIAC Secretariat on the drafting of the seventh edition of the SIAC Rules. He is an active participant at UNCITRAL Working Group II (Dispute Settlement) and UNCITRAL Working Group III (ISDS) and frequently speaks, lectures and conducts training on contemporary issues in arbitration.
Recognised for being ‘truly exceptional in his passion for, and knowledge of, international arbitration’, Kevin is listed by Who’s Who Legal as a Global Leader and National Leader for Southeast Asia in international arbitration. Described as a ‘rock star of arbitration’ and ‘a calm presence and a safe pair of hands for the most complex matters’, peers and clients say that he is ‘without equal in the region, in terms of institutional knowledge and expertise in international arbitration’ and that ‘no one knows more about arbitration in Singapore’.
Kevin is qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor with the Law Society of Upper Canada. He speaks English and French.
Audrey Ng
Managing Director & APAC General Counsel for Litigation of CitibankAudrey heads up the APAC Litigation and Regulatory Investigations team at Citibank, N.A. and oversees a team based in Hong Kong, Singapore and India that manages contentious matters across different business lines in 17 APAC countries. She joined Citi in July 2007 and had taken on roles first with the Private Bank before joining the APAC Litigation & Regulatory Investigations team in 2012. Since then, Audrey has been managing Citi’s portfolio of litigation, internal and regulatory reviews and investigations.
Audrey graduated from the National University of Singapore’s law school, and started her career in private practice as a litigator in Singapore law firms before switching to in-house counsel roles.
Jonathan Ong
Director, Restructuring & Insolvency of EisnerAmper SingaporeJonathan Ong has more than 18 years (including 12 years in a Big Four firm and 4 years in Bermuda) of experience in corporate financial advisory, restructuring and insolvency matters. He is a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner. His appointments include Singapore, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands. include construction, energy, green energy, hospitality, manufacturing, shipping, logistics, real estate and financial services. He has had experience dealing with insolvency of companies listed on the Singapore and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges.
His other experiences include working on a diverse range of onshore and offshore dispute matters, issues including numerous insolvency, forensic, litigation support, damages assessment and valuation matters. Because of the cross-border nature of his appointments, his experience is across jurisdictions such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Bermuda and USA.
Hyun Jae PARK
Attorney at Kim & ChangHyun Jae Park is an attorney at Kim & Chang’s Labor & Employment, Mergers & Acquisitions and Privacy & Data Security Practices.
Mr. Park advises multinational employers on all aspects of employment and labor related matters including employment policies and benefits, performance management and termination, employment litigation, business restructuring, employee data privacy, labor management relations, collective bargaining negotiation, employment and labor related issues in M&A and post-merger integration.
Mr. Park worked as a foreign attorney at Littler Mendelson P.C. in its Los Angeles and New York offices from 2014 to 2015.
Prior to joining Kim & Chang, Mr. Park served as a judge advocate at the Republic of Korea Air Force from 2006 to 2009. During his service, he represented the Korean government defending claims related to military aircraft noise involving high profile plaintiffs.
Mr. Park received his LL.B degree from the College of Social Science, Department of Politics, Seoul National University in 2004. He attended the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea in 2004 and completed his coursework at the Graduate School of Law, Seoul National University, in 2007.
Marie PARK
Attorney at Kim & ChangMarie Park is an attorney at Kim & Chang and specializes in antitrust & competition, mergers & acquisitions, and corporate matters.
Ms. Park practices in a wide range of corporate law areas, with a focus on antitrust and competition, corporate governance, foreign direct investment, and mergers & acquisitions. She also has extensive experience advising the firm’s clients in the IT, automotive, and sports & luxury industries.
Ms. Park advises clients on antitrust compliance and competition law issues arising from their daily operation and mergers and acquisitions transactions, investigations by the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) into alleged violations of competition law, and global merger filings. In particular, her practice focuses on antitrust issues in the IT, automotive and other industries where the KFTC is highly keen on uprooting abuse of market dominant position and related restrictive practices.
Ms. Park graduated from the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea in 2007, received an LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 2004 and received an LL.B. from Seoul National University in 2000. She was also a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School from 2013 to 2014. She is admitted to the Korea bar and the New York bar.
Rudra Pandey
Senior Partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & CoRudra Pandey is a Partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. He has 19 years’ experience in Corporate Commercial transactions, General Corporate advisory and advising on Corporate Governance matters. Rudra has been very actively involved in various national and international deals. Rudra has been endorsed as a notable practitioner for financial and corporate laws by The International Financial Law Review 1000.
His areas of expertise include corporate structuring, mergers & acquisitions, takeovers, delisting’s, private equity investments, joint ventures, real estate, banking and finance, project finance, establishment and management of funds (onshore and offshore).
Rudra is the lead member of the Japan and China Practice of the Firm, and has advised leading Japanese and Chinese corporations on setting up and expanding their India operations, including strategic investments. While working with the erstwhile Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co., Rudra has also worked in Tokyo with Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, and with Standard Chartered Bank on secondment.
Pandey’s breadth of experience encompasses key industry sectors that include manufacturing, automobile, media & entertainment, telecommunications, banking, Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs), IT, Special Economic Zones (SEZs), trading, cement, coal, pharmaceuticals, real estate, industrial parks, retail and insurance.
Mihee Park
Chief Financial Officer at Big Time StudiosA leader x.0 of the digital age who is thriving on a Blockchain innovation journey with a passion for Crypto, NFT (Non-Fungible Token), Gaming, and Metaverse along with >25 years of global experience in Corporate Strategy & Management, Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Corporate Investment & Fund Raising with proven successes in the large MNCs and the start-ups.
Stanley Park
Board Director of Singapore Corporate Counsel Association- APAC Legal Congress 2023 Co-Chair's Welcome Address
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- APAC Legal Congress 2023 Co-Chair's Welcome Address
- APAC Legal Congress 2023 Co-Chair's Closing Address
Stanley Park is a member of the Board of Directors of the Singapore Corporate Counsel Association, joining the Board in 2014.
Stanley was Managing Director and Head of Legal - Asia Pacific Region for Scotiabank's Global Banking and Markets Division from Mar 2014 – Apr 2023. Based in Singapore, Stanley was responsible for all legal matters across the region, including China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Among other responsibilities, Stanley provided (i) transactional advice and support to the Bank's businesses related to capital markets, investment banking, commodities, corporate lending/trade finance and global transaction banking; (ii) regulatory advice and support re the Bank's businesses; (iii) management of litigation and disputes; (iv) advice and support to the Bank's internal or proprietary functions (including proprietary investments, HR matters, Finance); and (v) participation in corporate governance or oversight.
Prior to joining Scotiabank, Stanley was with Daiwa Capital Markets, as Senior Legal Counsel, in Singapore and Hong Kong from 2011 – 2014; with Barclays Global Investors, as General Counsel, in Tokyo from 2009 – 2010; with DKR Oasis, as Chief Compliance Officer, in Hong Kong in 2008; with Salomon Smith Barney and UBS Securities in Tokyo from 2001 – 2007; and with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and Coudert Brothers in NYC, from 1992 - 2001.
Stanley graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 1985 and received his law degree from the Harvard Law School in 1988, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Stanley has been a member of the New York State Bar since 1994.
Nguyen Mai Phuong
Senior Associate at Frasers Law Company- VIETNAM - Foreign Exchange Controls in Vietnam: Fundamentals & practical considerations for foreign investors
- VIETNAM - Fast Talk: Questions & Answers with Team Frasers
Nguyen Mai Phuong is a Senior Associate at Frasers Law Company and has more than 15 years of experience practising corporate and commercial law, with particular emphasis on large-scale project financing, mergers and acquisitions, inward investment, corporate governance, and capital markets. Prior to joining Frasers, she worked for an international law firm and a US-UK-based firm in their Ho Chi Minh City offices.
Phuong has assisted numerous investors and lenders in relation to their investment in Vietnam in renewable energy, infrastructure, and TMT sectors. She has also assisted local developers, borrowers, and sellers in Vietnam in their divestment or fundraising in Vietnam.
Phuong is qualified in Vietnam, England, and Wales and is fluent in both English and Vietnamese.
Anita Ghazi Rahman
Founder of The Legal CircleAnita is the Founder of The Legal Circle and Founder of Think Legal Bangladesh (www.thinklegalbangladesh.com – the first of its kind, free open and crowd-sourced web-based legal resources platform), as well as the Founder and Publisher of Legal Circle Law Reports (LCLR).
Anita focuses her practice on company, general corporate law and dispute resolution. She provides corporate and transactional advice with respect to business formation, employment, financing, IP, services and procurement contracts, joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions and other business restructurings and also advises on the acquisition, development, and disposition of commercial, industrial and residential real estate. Anita heads the firm’s Litigation practice.
Anita Ghazi Rahman serves on the Boards of a number of non-profits and professional associations, and Mentors for national and international incubator and accelerator programmes. Anita is an active mentor in the startup ecosystem since its nascent stages; and frequently mentors for BetterStories, Founders’ Institute, GP Accelerator, LightCastle Center for Advanced Learning, Seedstars, Startup Dhaka, YGAP and BYLC Ventures, among others. She is a sponsor-member of the Bangladesh Angels Network (BAN).
Amber Riley
Managing Director, Legal of Macquarie Bank LimitedAmber Riley is the lead regional lawyer for the Commodities and Global Markets team in Asia at Macquarie Group Limited. She has been with Macquarie for over 18 years, previously with the Sydney head office and based in Singapore for over 5 years. Amber leads a team of lawyers across Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. She is passionate about mentoring female talent and is the co-head of Macquarie’s Asia Women’s Network.
Earl Rivera-Dolera
Head of International Arbitration Practice at Frasers Law Company- VIETNAM - Dispute Resolution & International Arbitration in Vietnam: Enforcement of arbitral awards
- VIETNAM - DP & Cybersecurity: What can we expect from Vietnam’s Decree on Personal Data Protection?
- VIETNAM - Fast Talk: Questions & Answers with Team Frasers
Earl Rivera-Dolera is the Head of International Arbitration Practice, Frasers Law Company, Vietnam. She acts as a counsel and an arbitrator.
Earl has been appointed as an arbitrator in cases with various seats of arbitration including Singapore, India, Philippines, Indonesia and Hong Kong, among others. These concern a wide range of commercial disputes subject to different governing laws – of both common and civil legal systems. She is listed as an arbitrator at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Korean Commercial Arbitration Board, Japan Commercial Arbitration Association, Asian Centre for International Arbitration in Malaysia, HKIAC (Hong Kong), CAAI (Hong Kong/Taiwan) and THAC (Thailand) and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.
Earl has acted as a counsel, tribunal secretary and has advised as an expert in arbitration proceedings. She has been involved in arbitral proceedings seated in Asia, Africa, Europe, United States, and Australia in a Singapore-based arbitration chambers with prominent international arbitrators under the auspices of ICC, SIAC, LCIA, KLRCA, SCMA, AMTAC, HKIAC, VIAC, ICDR/AAA, BANI, ICSID and ad hoc arbitrations with total claims of around US$7.2 billion. She has had experience in various capacities in more than 170 arbitrations under the rules of major arbitral institutions.
Earl has also published extensively and in the area of international arbitration and is the co-author of the book volume, “Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore: Arbitration” (2017 and 2020 re-issues) in the Halsbury’s series.
Earl holds two master’s degrees in international economic law from Stanford University Law School (USA) and international business law from the National University of Singapore. At Stanford, Earl was a Salzburg-Cutler Fellow for International Law and a Jean Monnet European Union Law Research Fellow where she focused her research study on investment treaty arbitration and intra-European Union BITs.
Earl is a faculty member at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy in Colorado, USA and is admitted as a solicitor (with practising certificate) for the Senior Courts of England and Wales, attorney-at-law in New York State (USA), and attorney-at-law in the Philippines. She is also a certified information privacy professional for Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation.
Glenn Seah
Managing Director Head Legal, Compliance & Corporate Secretariat of Singapore Exchange LimitedMr Glenn Seah is Managing Director and Head of Legal, Compliance and Corporate Secretariat, and a permanent invitee to the Executive Management Committee of the SGX Group. Mr Seah is responsible for providing legal and compliance leadership and managing regulatory relationships on a global basis, for the Group’s businesses across equities, fixed income, FX, commodities, market data and indices.
Mr Seah previously headed country and regional compliance roles for Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore and South-East Asia. He also served in various roles in SGX, including Regulatory Policy, Staff Assistant to the CEO, and Head of Market Surveillance and Enforcement. Mr Seah was also a Deputy Public Prosecutor and State Counsel with the Attorney-General’s Chambers for several years. In 2017, he was recognized as a Fellow of the Institute of Banking and Finance, for his thought leadership and commitment to industry development. He also serves on non-profit boards, including the Harvard Business School Club of Singapore.
Mark Seah
Senior Partner at Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP- Managing Disputes: Walking a legal tightrope
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Mark Seah is a Senior Partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Dispute Resolution department and co-heads the Commercial Litigation practice. A member of the firm’s Executive Committee, he is also the firm’s Singapore-Australasia Relationship Partner.
Mark commands a strong practice in commercial litigation and arbitration involving complex, high value disputes concerning Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues, commodities, international trade, supply chains, energy, restructuring and insolvency, derivatives, shareholder and corporate matters and employment. Mark has acted in significant cross-border litigation involving in excess of US$1 billion, and has represented prominent companies including some of the world’s largest, governments, state owned entities and leading banks.
Vijay Selvam
Managing Director & APAC Head of Legal at Leonteq Securities AGVijay Selvam is a Managing Director and APAC Head of Legal at Leonteq Securities. He specialises in structured investment products, securitized derivatives and asset management. Vijay is also an expert in digital assets, having served as the General Counsel of the first Nasdaq-listed digital assets company, Eqonex Limited. Prior to that, Vijay spent over 10 years at Goldman Sachs in their New York, Hong Kong and Singapore offices where he was the APAC head of the Finance and Corporate Legal division. He has also practiced as a lawyer at Davis Polk in New York and Freshfields in London. Vijay is a New York Attorney and UK Solicitor. He holds law degrees from Harvard Law School, Oxford University, and Cardiff University.
Rishabh Shroff
Partner (Head of International Business Development and Co-Head of the Private Client practice) at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas- INDIA - ‘Eye on India’: A legal, commercial & political round-up on India
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Rishabh is a Partner in the Firm’s Corporate team, specialising in foreign investments into India, private mergers & acquisitions, and joint venture transactions.
As the Co-Head of Private Client Practice, he focuses on cross-border succession planning, family constitutions and settlements, trusts and wills.
As the Head of International Business Development, Rishabh is responsible for all foreign law firm relationships at CAM.
He was featured in Legal Week’s and the American Lawyer’s flagship publication, Private Client Global Elite since 2017. He was featured in “The Economic Times 40 under Forty: India Inc’s Top Young Leaders 2021” list as published by The Economic Times and Spencer Stuart. He was ranked as ‘Band 1’ by the prestigious Chambers & Partners HNW 2017 Guide.
Arpinder Singh
Global Markets & India Forensic & Integrity Services Leader at EY Forensic & Integrity ServicesArpinder Singh has significant experience spanning over 25 years in multi-jurisdiction investigations, forensic accounting and dispute advisory in India, US, UK and other regions. As a trusted advisor, he has worked with corporates, regulators and law enforcement officials on many high profile and global investigations across diverse sectors. He has acted as an expert forensic accountant in several disputes and arbitration cases and has been consistently recognized as one of the foremost practitioners in the “Who’s Who Legal”.
He is a forensic accountant with significant knowledge of the law and one of the few experts in India who was an internal auditor, statutory auditor, financial controller, and leads forensic investigations. He is an ISO 37001 Certified Lead Auditor, Founder of the Mumbai Chapter of the ACFE, and Special invitee to the ICAI’s Digital Accounting and Assurance Board (2020-21).
Hendronoto Soesabdo
Partner at AFHS LawFirmHendronoto Soesabdo is a Partner at AFHS LawFirm and specializes in (i) Dispute Management; (ii) Arbitration; (iii) Banking Dispute; (iv) Bankruptcy and Suspension of Payment; (v) Anti Corruption Compliance; (vi) Technology, Communication and Cyberlaw.
With his exceptional experience, Hendronoto is a seasoned lawyer. He has assisted and advised various high-profile corporate clients in financial and commercial court cases. With his high level of responsiveness and rich experience, clients often entrust him when dealing with high-profile cases.
He started his career in 1998 when he joined an oil and gas company, PremierOil Natuna Sea Limited. During his time in the leading oil and gas company, he gained invaluable knowledge of the oil and gas industry.
Hendronoto is also among a shortlist of true leading arbitration lawyers in Indonesia. He has rich experience in assisting local and international clients in various venues of arbitration. He is one of the members of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Users Council. He is the lawyer to go for anti-corruption compliance matters. With his strong exposure and long experience in the area, he has helped principals of multinational companies in dealing with anti-corruption issues in Indonesia.
Hendronoto has brought to AFHS his tremendous experience from his previous leadership experience as one of the partners at Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners, a member of an international firm, Baker & McKenzie. He was considered a bright star within the Baker & McKenzie organization. In 2005, he was awarded the Baker & McKenzie International Legal Studies Scholarship and obtained his LL.M Degree at The University of Washington, USA and appointed as one of the firm’s partners in 2011.
Hendronoto Soesabdo graduated from Diponegoro University with bold positive footprints. His exceptional contributions to the students' activities and outstanding academic achievement have led the university to award him as the third-best-achieving student of the year in 1996. The Law School also awarded him as the best-achieving student of the year in the same year. Until now, he continues his contribution to the academic society as one of the scholars at the Diponegoro University Law School.
Priscilla Soh
Partner, Commercial Litigation; Restructuring & Insolvency; Sustainability at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLPPriscilla has experience in a range of commercial disputes, with an emphasis on banking and financing disputes, fraud and investigations, shareholders’ disputes and insolvency litigation.
In a recent matter involving a Hong Kong listed company, Priscilla was lauded by the client for her “impressive level of professionalism, expertise, and dedication throughout the project. Her attention to detail and ability to communicate complex legal concepts in a clear and concise manner were particularly noteworthy….what sets her apart from her peers is her exceptional work ethic and unwavering commitment to her clients.”
Ng Sook Zhen
Partner at Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLPNg Sook Zhen is a partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Regional practice group and Head of the Japan desk. Her practice focuses on Singapore, Japan, and China. Sook Zhen worked as a foreign legal associate with one of the largest Japanese law firms in Tokyo for over two years before joining Dentons Rodyk. She enjoys an active civil/commercial practice and has advised and assisted Singaporean and Japanese clients in a variety of matters, including disputes and transactions involving banking and financing, employment and regulatory compliance and general commercial and corporate matters. In 2021, Sook Zhen was recognised as one of Singapore’s 18 most influential lawyers under 40 by Singapore Business Review.
Welly Tantono
General Counsel & Interim Head of Cybersecurity at SecretlabWelly Tantono is the group general counsel and interim head of cybersecurity for Secretlab, one of the top global brands in esports. She honed her legal skills in New York, California and Singapore, handling bet-the-company IP litigations and advising high value, complex M&A and capital markets transactions. As in-house counsel, she partners with the business teams to successful growth in complex legal jurisdictions and to streamline processes for increased operational efficiency. Welly’s interest in cybersecurity has led her to serve as a lecturer at the National University of Singapore on the legal aspects of cyber security. As a a commissioner of PT Steel Pipe Industry of Indonesia (SPINDO), a publicly listed company on the IDX, Welly works closely with SPINDO’s ICT team to ensure a disciplined security-focused implementation of their digital transformation journey.
Ezra Tay
General Counsel at TazapayEzra is General Counsel at Tazapay, a Sequoia backed payments startup. His experience spans across fintech in areas such as insurtech, p2p financing and crypto.
Koh Teck Wah
Head of Legal, APAC at SyngentaTeck Wah is the Head of Legal, APAC for Syngenta, a Chinese owned Switzerland headquartered multi-national agribusiness company. Syngenta is the world’s No.1 provider of crop protection products and No. 3 provider of Seeds.
Teck Wah leads a team of 15 legal professionals supporting a business with sales of more than US$2.1 billion sales in 2022 from 11 countries in the Asia Pacific region (excluding China). The APAC Legal Team members are highly dedicated Business Partners to the various functional and country leadership teams overseeing all legal aspects of the company’s businesses.
Teck Wah obtained his LL.B from the London School of Economics and before joining Syngenta in 2000, he was in private practice in Malaysia.
Melissa Thng
Partner at Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLPMelissa Thng is a Partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution and Arbitration practice, and the Co-Head of International Trade. Melissa specialises in cross-border, trans-national litigation and arbitration, and has a particular interest in disputes involving novel or complex issues. Her practice covers a diverse range of industry sectors, including energy and projects, aviation, fraud, shipping, equity and trust, shareholders’ disputes, construction and insolvency. She has also advised both private and public sector clients on regulatory matters. Melissa is an active member of the international arbitration community, and regularly conducts seminars and workshops for the SIAC. She was invited to be a part of the inaugural YSIAC Committee and served on the committee between 2014 and 2018, and was a member of the CIArb Events and Social Committee between 2015 and 2018. She has also served on the SIAC Users Council since 2015.
Terry Thornley
General Counsel, APAC at Spencer StuartTerry Thornley is the General Counsel, APAC at Spencer Stuart. Spencer Stuart is the preeminent leadership advisory firm with over 80 offices in 30 countries focusing on senior-level executive and board search, succession planning, assessment, engagement, and coaching. Terry initially transferred to Shanghai with Spencer Stuart in 2016 as the first lawyer in the APAC region and has built the APAC legal function and team that covers 8 countries in the region. In addition, he manages the risk function for the legal team globally where he has developed an implemented a global KYC and sanctions review process along with global risk trainings and policies.
Terry is also on the Board of Directors of the Singapore Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) where he is currently the Chapter President. Terry previously volunteered on the Asia Advisory Board for the international association of privacy professionals (iapp) from 2021-2022. He is an iapp Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) and an iapp Certified Information Privacy Professional / Asia (CIPP/A).
Terry graduated with a Juris Doctor from the Chicago-Kent College of Law with Honors. He then went on to attend the Harvard Business School Program for Leadership Development becoming an HBS alumni. He is admitted to practice law in the US in the State of Illinois.
Terry is passionate and leadership and development and has mentored two cohorts of Singapore university students with the HBS Club of Singapore’s Student Mentorship Program.
Reza Topobroto
General Counsel, VP Legal & Compliance at Telkomsigma- INDONESIA - DIGITALIZATION OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION
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Reza Topobroto is the General Counsel, VP Legal & Compliance of Telkomsigma, a subsidiary of Telkom Group, the largest telco company in SE Asia. Telkomsigma engages in the technology sector, focusing on cloud computing, digital and IT services. Reza joined Telkomsigma on March 2022.
He started his legal career as a practicing lawyer in 1997, after moving to several law firms he had a chance and was promoted to a Senior Associate at Roosdiono & Partners. In 2005, he shifted careers to corporate counsel by joining Procter & Gamble as Country Counsel Lead. In 2008, Reza was appointed as the Head of Legal for Mondelez (p.k.a Kraft Foods). In 2012 he joined Microsoft as Director of Corporate, External & Legal Affairs in charge for Indonesia. After 7 years at Microsoft, he moved to Indosat Ooredoo in 2019, becoming Senior Legal Advisor to the CEO. In 2021, Reza made the decision to step out of his comfort zone by becoming the Business Advisor of Jameson Legal Tech, a legal tech consortium marketing based in the UK that expanded its coverage to Asia.
Reza was the third President of the Indonesian Corporate Counsel Association (ICCA). He ended his term in 2014 and continues contributions to ICCA through his role on the Supervisory Board. In 2009, together with leaders of associations from other countries, he co-founded the Asia Pacific Corporate Counsel Alliance (APCCA), and further in 2014, he was appointed as the Secretary General of the APCCA. At present, he is still active in APCCA as the Director of Governance and Administration.
In 2015, Reza was given the award of ‘Indonesia In-House Lawyer of the Year 2015’ and ‘In-House Legal Team of the Year 2016’ by Asia Legal Business (ALB). Recently, he was awarded again by ALB for Innovative In-House Team of the Year 2020. Reza obtained his law degree at Trisakti University, Jakarta in 1997, and his Master of Laws at Monash University, Melbourne in 2003.
Ho Thuy Ngoc Tram
Senior Associate at Frasers Law Company- VIETNAM - Restructuring, Turnaround & Insolvency: Maximising the opportunities in Vietnam in the current investment climate
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Ho Thuy Ngoc Tram is a senior associate at Frasers Law Company and has more than 11 years’ experience practising corporate and commercial law, with particular emphasis on large-scale project financing, real estate, TMT, e-commerce, mergers and acquisitions, inward investment, corporate governance, and debt and equity capital markets in Vietnam. Prior to joining Frasers, she worked for a large commercial bank in Ho Chi Minh City, focusing on various cross-border banking transactions.
Tram was the first and only person in the history of the Ho Chi Minh City University of Law who got the highest result in the entrance examination and subsequently graduated as the first-ranked student (with the highest overall GPA) of the same school as well as obtained the highest score on the thesis. Tram also won the prestigious Endeavour Postgraduate Award, granted by the Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, and has successfully obtained a Master of Commercial Laws Degree from Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne, Australia during 2012-2013. While studying in Australia, Tram also worked as research assistant for various projects led by the Director of Asian Law Centre, Melbourne Law School and has represented Melbourne Law School to speak at the Vietnam Legal Studies Graduate Workshop held by Monash University.
Tram is a member of the Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association and speaks both English and Vietnamese.
Tram regularly handles large and complex multi-jurisdictional transactions, sophisticated legal issues and negotiations on a broad range of transactional and contentious matters. In addition, Tram also advises industry leaders in the FMCG, energy, manufacturing, infrastructure, and services sectors, among numerous others.
Hai Tran
Head of Legal & Compliance at Climate Impact X Pte . Ltd.Hai Tran is Head of Legal and Compliance for Climate Impact X (“CIX”) overseeing and providing legal advisory, transactional, compliance and corporate governance support at CIX as it develops its platforms for market participants to access high quality carbon credits.
Hai Tran has over 18 years of experience in the derivatives markets having spent his career providing inhouse legal support to the OTC foreign exchange, rates, commodities, futures and options, prime brokerage and clearing businesses at various global investment banks in Australia, United Kingdom and Singapore.
Agnieszka Verlet
Head of Legal at SC VenturesAgnieszka (“Agi”) Verlet is an expert digital transformation lawyer with almost two decades of experience. She is Head of Legal at SC Ventures, Standard Chartered Bank’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm.
Agi joined SC Ventures in September 2018 to advise on creation and legal structuring of new business models at the intersection of technology and finance. Since then she advised on creation and scaling of over 30 ventures in the space of digital assets, trade finance and e-commerce.
She previously worked with Standard Charted, HSBC and DLA Piper in various roles with a focus on payment systems, outsourcing, third party platforms, mobile wallets and new financial technologies.
Agi holds a Law Magister degree from Mickiewicza University, Poznan, Poland; a Masters in Management of Intellectual Property from Queen Mary University, London; and Master of Laws from London School of Economics and Political Science.
She brings energy and flair to discussions on the need for the law to reshape traditional safeguards and enable innovation.
Kwong Weng Wan
Group Chief Corporate Officer & Group General Counsel at Mapletree Investments Pte LtdKwong Weng is the Group Chief Corporate Officer and Group General Counsel of Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd, a real estate development and capital manager headquartered in Singapore. He takes charge of all legal, compliance and corporate secretarial matters as well as oversees all of administration, corporate communications and human resource functions.
Mr Wan is called to the Singapore Bar, where he was awarded the Justice FA Chua Memorial Prize, and is also on the Rolls of Solicitors (England & Wales). He was conferred the Public Service Medal (PBM) in 2012 and Public Service Star (BBM) in 2017.
Mr Wan is also appointed as a Member of the Valuation Review Board since 2019. In addition, he is Secretary/Member of the SMU Advisory Board for the Real Estate Programme.
Lee Weilin
Head, Sustainability; Partner, Banking & Finance at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLPWeilin heads up the Sustainability Practice Group in Rajah & Tann in addition to being a partner with the Banking and Finance practice group. Weilin and the team of award-winning Sustainability Practice Group specialist lawyers work together to provide legal solutions on sustainability related across industry areas and sectors, including working on green financing projects, conducting ESG due diligence, advising on creation of carbon credits etc. Weilin is also an EFFAS Certified ESG Analyst.
Lau Wen Jin
Partner at Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLPLau Wen Jin is a Partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution, and Arbitration Practice Groups. As an advocate, Wen Jin has appeared as lead counsel in trials and other hearings at all levels of the Singapore courts, including the Court of Appeal. He has an especially keen interest in handling appeals dealing with complex and novel issues, and he has received commendations from the Court of Appeal for his advocacy. As a legal advisor, Wen Jin adopts a holistic approach to find practical and commercial solutions for clients facing legal issues that requires a broad understanding of different areas of law and commercial reality. Wen Jin’s area of practice include contractual dispute resolution, international arbitration, construction, employment, equity and trust, breach of directors’ duties, shareholders’ dispute, M&A disputes, mediation, and criminal defence. He holds specialist Masters of Laws in international arbitration from the National University of Singapore (LL.M. (IADR)) and the Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement (MIDS).
Mark Wong
Partner at Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLPMark is a Partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Corporate practice.
Mark practices in the areas of M&A, venture capital, private equity, and project finance. With nearly two decades of experience, Mark has an outstanding track record representing both buyers and sellers across a diverse range of sectors such as fintech, pharmaceutical, transportation, manufacturing, real estate, and hospitality, oil and gas, energy and mining. His expertise spans transactional, regulatory, corporate, and commercial advisory work. Leveraging his experience working in Paris, Beijing, and now Singapore, along with his bar qualifications in both Singapore and France, Mark frequently provides expert advice on cross-border, sinophone, and francophone deals.
Mark formerly served as Counsel-in-Charge of one of the six teams of the ICC Court of Arbitration Secretariat in Paris.
Mark is a native speaker of English and Mandarin, and is proficient in French, Cantonese and Hakka.
Yi Wong
General Counsel at Yeo Hiap Seng Limited- APAC Legal Congress 2023 Co-Chair's Welcome Address
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Wong Yi is the Group General Counsel of Yeo Hiap Seng (Yeos), a food & beverage conglomerate with a global network that spans the Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America and Oceanic regions. He is based in Singapore and is responsible for all legal matters across the group.
Alexander Yap
Partner at Allen & Gledhill LLPCo-Head of the Firm’s FinTech Practice, Alexander focuses on the acquisition, divestiture, provision, sharing, and receipt, of technology and intellectual property-related services, assets (including cryptographic and digital assets), and data.
Alexander advises on intellectual property licensing, R&D and sponsorship arrangements, cybersecurity, collaborations, outsourcing, distribution and franchising, online gaming, and cloud and ‘as-a-service’ platforms. He is a key contact for data protection and privacy compliance matters and data breach management.
Alexander is recommended by Who’s Who Legal: Banking 2021, Who’s Who Legal: Data 2022 and Who’s Who Legal: Southeast Asia 2021. He is also recognised as a ‘Notable Practitioner’ in IFLR1000, and a ‘Next Generation Partner’ in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022, where he is described as “a very knowledgeable and tech-savvy partner,” and “closely collaborative and engaging”.
Alexander contributed to the Personal Data Protection Commission’s PDP Digest, the Singapore chapter of Proskauer on Privacy published by the Practising Law Institute, and is co-author of the Singapore chapter of the International Encyclopedia of Agency Distribution Agreements published by Kluwer Law International.
Mike Yeh
Regional Vice President & Associate General Counsel at MicrosoftMike Yeh is the Regional Vice President and Associate General Counsel responsible for Microsoft’s Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA) team in Asia. He manages a team of more than 80 professionals who provide legal and government affairs support to Microsoft’s sales and business operations in the region – from India to Australia and New Zealand to China, Korea and Japan. He focuses on helping customers – both governments and the private sector – navigate novel legal, regulatory and policy issues at the intersection of technology and business.
He joined Microsoft in 2003 and, most recently, led Microsoft’s CELA team in the Middle East and Africa based out of Dubai. Before that he was the Assistant General Counsel responsible for Microsoft’s Worldwide Public Sector and Industry team based out of the Redmond, Washington. He has also worked in the Antitrust Group in Redmond and as the Director of Regulatory Affairs for Asia from 2008-2012 based out of Beijing.
Before joining Microsoft, Mike was with the law firm of Arnold & Porter in Washington D.C, where he represented clients in antitrust litigation matters and investigations by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. He has a law degree and a Master's degree in public affairs from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University.
Philip Yeo
Deputy Head, Funds & Investment Management Group at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLPPhilip Yeo is Deputy Head of Funds and Investment Management Group. He regularly provides advice on the establishment and licensing obligations of the Singapore based fund managers as well as the formation of the Singapore and offshore funds with different investment strategies and investment focus in various geographical markets.
Philip has recently been recognised as a ranked lawyer by Chambers Asia Pacific since 2020, with clients describing him as “quick in understanding and astute in framing the problem.” He has also been recognised as a Notable Practitioner by Asialaw 2023, and is praised for being “responsive, professional, detailed” and possessing “strong legal knowledge in the field of investment management”.
Leong Yi-Ming
Partner at Allen & Gledhill LLPYi-Ming’s practice focuses on complex commercial disputes in litigation and arbitration with particular specialisation in cross-border and intellectual property disputes.
Her broad experience covers areas of company and shareholder disputes, equity and trusts, cryptocurrency and technology disputes. Yi-Ming also regularly advises on corporate governance, intellectual property, domain names, confidentiality and cybersecurity. Yi-Ming has also appeared as amicus curiae in the Supreme Court to assist on the sentencing framework for stalking under the Protection from Harassment Act.
Prior to joining Allen & Gledhill, Yi-Ming was a Justices’ Law Clerk of the Supreme Court of Singapore. Thereafter, Yi-Ming was awarded the Singapore Academy of Law Overseas Attachment Award in 2017 and was seconded to Essex Court Chambers in London where she worked with leading English barristers and Queen’s Counsel.
Yi-Ming graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with First Class Honours (LLB).
Jonathan Yuen
Head, Commercial Litigation & Employment at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLPJonathan Yuen heads the highly regarded and top-ranked Commercial Litigation and Employment practices of Rajah & Tann; and has over 20 years of experience advising and representing clients in complex commercial matters as well as succeeding at the Court of Appeal. Jonathan understands business—he has an MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and was trained in negotiation at Harvard Law School.
Jonathan is recognised as a Distinguished Practitioner by Asialaw Profiles and a Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation and is also ranked as a leading lawyer for Employment by Chambers Asia Pacific and The Legal 500 Asia Pacific. Chambers Asia Pacific describes him as “not just good technically, he is also very savvy and understands international companies”, while The Legal 500 Asia Pacific describes him as “very impressive”, “commercially-savvy”, “offering commercially practical and sound advice” and “not over-lawyering the issues”. Clients say that he is “very perceptive and quick to understand our issues”, “very practical and responsive in relation to urgent work”, “sharp, thorough and solution-driven” and “someone you want on your side in a dispute.”