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This seminar provides an overview of the key concepts and issues relating to digital assets, and the current regulatory landscape for, as well as recent judicial decisions on, such assets. The seminar will also evolving innovations such as decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs), examining their governance structures, potential, and legal implications.
Learning Objectives
- This seminar series aims to provide participants with an overview of some of the latest IT law issues and developments. Every session focuses on a different topic and will be conducted by a variety of leading practitioners and academics in the relevant field, who will deliver presentations and participate in a Q&A discussion with opportunities for participants to pose questions.
Who Should Enroll
- Lawyers
- In-house Counsel
- IT Professionals
- IP Professionals
- Professionals interested in the topic(s)
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SILE-Accredited Activity
- CPD Public Points: 3
- Practice Area: Telecommunications, Media & Technology
- Training Level: Advanced
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Insolvency Issues Relating to Digital Assets
Beverly Wee16
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What Do DAOs Really Contribute?
Dr Jason Grant Allen17
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Panel Discussion
Paul McClelland•Dr Jason Grant Allen•Lynette Lee•Claire Tian•Beverly WeeOverview of the Current Legal Landscape on Digital Assets
Speakers
Claire Tian
Senior Assistant Director of International Legal Division, Ministry of LawClaire is presently a Senior Assistant Director within the International Legal Division at the Ministry of Law. Among other responsibilities, she was nominated as a subject matter expert for the Hague Conference on Private International Law’s Digital Tokens Project. She was previously a Senior Associate at a leading law firm in Singapore, advising on financial regulatory, derivatives and fintech matters.
Singapore’s Approach Towards The Regulation of Digital Tokens
Speakers
Lynette Lee
Deputy General Counsel and Head (Division I) at Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)Lynette is Deputy General Counsel and Head of Division I of the Legal Department of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, where she leads a team of legal counsels advising on all legal aspects pertaining to the prudential and market conduct functions of MAS, the development of legal frameworks for the regulation of new financial businesses as well as the supervision of financial institutions regulated by MAS. These financial institutions include banks, insurance companies, capital market intermediaries, payment institutions and financial advisers among others.
Prior to joining MAS, Lynette has both litigation and corporate work experience, having been a litigation lawyer in a leading local law firm as well as corporate counsel at local and multinational companies. Lynette graduated from the National University of Singapore and is called to the Singapore bar.
Insolvency Issues Relating to Digital Assets
Speakers
Beverly Wee
Senior Assistant Official Assignee & Senior Assistant Official Receiver with the Insolvency and Public Trustee’s Office (IPTO) Director, Licensing and Regulation of Insolvency Practitioners’ Division, IPTO at Insolvency and Public Trustee’s OfficeBeverly Wee is a Senior Assistant Official Assignee and Senior Assistant Official Receiver with the Insolvency and Public Trustee’s Office (“IPTO”), under the Ministry of Law. She is also, presently, the Director of the Licensing and Regulation of Insolvency Practitioners’ Division. She has been with IPTO for more than 20 years, where she has worked on various cases and law reform projects, particularly in the area of insolvency, including the introduction of the Debt Repayment Scheme for bankrupts in 2009, and the introduction of the Insolvency Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 (“IRDA”) and its supporting subsidiary legislation which consolidated the corporate and personal debt restructuring and insolvency laws into a single statute. She was, most recently, involved amending the IRDA to make permanent the Simplified Insolvency Programme in Singapore’s corporate debt restructuring and insolvency regime, which was passed in Parliament in January 2025. She is also a member of the Singapore delegation to UNCITRAL Working Group V (Insolvency Law).
What Do DAOs Really Contribute?
Speakers
Dr Jason Grant Allen
Associate Professor of Law; Director, Centre for AI & Data Governance at Singapore Management University, Yong Pung How School of LawDr Jason Grant Allen is Associate Professor of Law at SMU Yong Pung How School of Law and Director of the SMU Centre for Digital Law. Jason read law in Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdom, the latter as a Poynton Scholar at the University of Cambridge. Jason is a qualified NY Attorney and Australian Lawyer (non-practising) and clerked for then Chancellor of the High Court of England and Wales, Sir Goeffrey Vos, in 2016-2017. Jason’s work on various aspects of law and digital technology has been published in leading journals. He has written, co-edited and translated several books including Smart Legal Contracts: Computable Law in Theory and Practice (with Peter Hunn) and Foundations of Property Law: Things as Objects of Property Rights (by Christian von Bar), both with the Oxford University Press. Currently, Jason is co-editing the Handbook of Digital Assets and the Law (with Peter Hunn and Simon Gleeson) and Handbook of Monetary law (with Will Bateman and Seraina Grünwald), also both with the Oxford University Press. Jason has provided CPD training and thought leadership to national and international organisations and he was a working group member of the UNIDROIT project on the private law applicable to digital assets.
Panel Discussion
Speakers
Paul McClelland
Senior Legal Counsel at IPOS InternationalMr Paul McClelland specialises in intellectual property law and commercial dispute resolution. Before joining IPOS International Pte Ltd, Paul was sole corporate counsel for a well-known Singaporean brand, where he was responsible for a broad range of commercial matters, including worldwide trademark registrations and oppositions, management of external counsel, contract review, and training.
He has experience working in private practice for both Singapore and Scottish law firms. His practice focused on intellectual property and commercial arbitration.
He also taught commercial law, intellectual property and real estate law at a Scottish university.
Dr Jason Grant Allen
Associate Professor of Law; Director, Centre for AI & Data Governance at Singapore Management University, Yong Pung How School of LawDr Jason Grant Allen is Associate Professor of Law at SMU Yong Pung How School of Law and Director of the SMU Centre for Digital Law. Jason read law in Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdom, the latter as a Poynton Scholar at the University of Cambridge. Jason is a qualified NY Attorney and Australian Lawyer (non-practising) and clerked for then Chancellor of the High Court of England and Wales, Sir Goeffrey Vos, in 2016-2017. Jason’s work on various aspects of law and digital technology has been published in leading journals. He has written, co-edited and translated several books including Smart Legal Contracts: Computable Law in Theory and Practice (with Peter Hunn) and Foundations of Property Law: Things as Objects of Property Rights (by Christian von Bar), both with the Oxford University Press. Currently, Jason is co-editing the Handbook of Digital Assets and the Law (with Peter Hunn and Simon Gleeson) and Handbook of Monetary law (with Will Bateman and Seraina Grünwald), also both with the Oxford University Press. Jason has provided CPD training and thought leadership to national and international organisations and he was a working group member of the UNIDROIT project on the private law applicable to digital assets.
Lynette Lee
Deputy General Counsel and Head (Division I) at Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)Lynette is Deputy General Counsel and Head of Division I of the Legal Department of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, where she leads a team of legal counsels advising on all legal aspects pertaining to the prudential and market conduct functions of MAS, the development of legal frameworks for the regulation of new financial businesses as well as the supervision of financial institutions regulated by MAS. These financial institutions include banks, insurance companies, capital market intermediaries, payment institutions and financial advisers among others.
Prior to joining MAS, Lynette has both litigation and corporate work experience, having been a litigation lawyer in a leading local law firm as well as corporate counsel at local and multinational companies. Lynette graduated from the National University of Singapore and is called to the Singapore bar.
Claire Tian
Senior Assistant Director of International Legal Division, Ministry of LawClaire is presently a Senior Assistant Director within the International Legal Division at the Ministry of Law. Among other responsibilities, she was nominated as a subject matter expert for the Hague Conference on Private International Law’s Digital Tokens Project. She was previously a Senior Associate at a leading law firm in Singapore, advising on financial regulatory, derivatives and fintech matters.
Beverly Wee
Senior Assistant Official Assignee & Senior Assistant Official Receiver with the Insolvency and Public Trustee’s Office (IPTO) Director, Licensing and Regulation of Insolvency Practitioners’ Division, IPTO at Insolvency and Public Trustee’s OfficeBeverly Wee is a Senior Assistant Official Assignee and Senior Assistant Official Receiver with the Insolvency and Public Trustee’s Office (“IPTO”), under the Ministry of Law. She is also, presently, the Director of the Licensing and Regulation of Insolvency Practitioners’ Division. She has been with IPTO for more than 20 years, where she has worked on various cases and law reform projects, particularly in the area of insolvency, including the introduction of the Debt Repayment Scheme for bankrupts in 2009, and the introduction of the Insolvency Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 (“IRDA”) and its supporting subsidiary legislation which consolidated the corporate and personal debt restructuring and insolvency laws into a single statute. She was, most recently, involved amending the IRDA to make permanent the Simplified Insolvency Programme in Singapore’s corporate debt restructuring and insolvency regime, which was passed in Parliament in January 2025. She is also a member of the Singapore delegation to UNCITRAL Working Group V (Insolvency Law).
Organiser
Supporting Organization
SCCA Academy
The SCCA Academy provides skills-based professional education and training programmes for Legal Corporate Counsels. It represents the interests of in-house lawyers working for companies and other entities based in Singapore to ensure that skills and knowledge stay relevant in today’s knowledge-intensive and business-driven economy.
The SCCA Academy offers a comprehensive array of interdisciplinary course modules to support a lifelong learning imperative, help organisations meet their reskilling goals, and equip individuals with the necessary skills and competencies as Legal Corporate Counsels.