Mr Chan Sek Keong – The Attorney-General of Singapore |
| Mr Chan Sek Keong was born in Ipoh, Perak and received his early
education at Anderson School, Ipoh. He read law at the University of
Malaya in Singapore and was among the inaugural group of 22 to graduate
from the Law Faculty in 1961. Mr Chan was admitted to the Singapore Bar
on 31 January 1962. He began his practice at the firm of Braddell
Brothers and in 1969 joined the firm of Shook Lin & Bok. On 1 July 1986,
Mr Chan became the first person to be appointed as Judicial
Commissioner. His elevation to the position of a Judge of the Supreme
Court soon followed in 1988. On 1 May 1992, Mr Chan Sek Keong was
appointed Attorney-General of Singapore. |
Mr Kevin Martin – President, the Law Society of England & Wales |
| Kevin Martin is the new President of the Law Society. Mr. Martin
qualified in November 1970. His former practice of KJ Martin & Co merged
with Lodders law firm in 2001 and he now works as a consultant in the
private client department from the Stratford-upon-Avon office. He has
been a member of Birmingham Law Society since 1970, and Warwickshire Law
Society since 1980. Mr Martin, a solicitor for more than thirty years,
joined the Law Society Council in 1996. He was admitted to the
profession in 1970 and became an assistant solicitor and then partner in
the Birmingham firm Mackintosh & Co. Mr Martin specialises in private
client and property work. |
Mr Philip Jeyaretnam SC – President, the Law Society of Singapore |
| Philip Jeyaretnam, Senior Counsel, is a partner in the firm of Rodyk
& Davidson. His areas of practice include commercial litigation,
international arbitration and trade and investment law. He particularly
enjoys matters with a cross-border element, when different legal systems
and cultures have to be understood. He is President of the Law Society
of Singapore. |
Ms Annabel Pennefather – Consultant, M/s Harry Elias Partnership |
| Annabel’s legal career spans more than 25 years which includes
partnerships in established law firms such as Donaldson & Burkinshaw and
Khattar Wong & Partners. Whilst in practice, Annabel has specialised in
property law and international business transactions and now sport law.
Annabel is a full member of the International Academy of Sportslaw
Practitioners and Executives. Annabel brings to the practice of sport
law her experience in a wide range of sporting roles. These include
being a national hockey player, a sport administrator in national and
international sport federations and a technical official at the Olympic
Games. She has also served as a Governing Council member of the
Singapore Sports Council and is now both a Vice President of the
Singapore National Olympic Council and of the International Hockey
Federation. At the Athens Olympic Games, she served as Chef de Mission
for Singapore’s contingent. Through her involvement with international
and national sport governing bodies, Annabel is well acquainted with the
legal and commercial issues relating to sport and the sport industry
such as sport governing body regulations and procedures, corporate
governance, event planning and management, athlete contracts,
disciplinary processes and sponsorships. |
Dr William Wan – Partner, M/s Kelvin Chia Partnership |
| Dr William Wan is a member of the Bar since 1973. He has lived and
worked in several foreign cities including Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam
for 21 years before returning to Singapore in 1996. As a partner in
Kelvin Chia Partnership, he holds the branch licence for their office in
Hanoi and was in Pyongyang to inaugurate their practice in North Korea.
He continues to travel extensively on behalf on behalf of the firm for
client care and development. |
Mr Kim T K Seah – Partner, M/s A Ang Seah & Hoe |
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Mr Peter Low – Partner, M/s Peter Low Tang & Belinda Ang |
| Mr Peter Cuthbert Low is a partner of M/s Peter Low, Tang & Belinda
Ang. He graduated from the then University of Singapore in 1977 and
thereafter joined the Singapore Legal Service as State Counsel and
Deputy Public Prosecutor before being employed by M/s Drew & Napier.
Subsequently, he left the firm to set up his own practice. Over the
years, he had been active in the Law Society. He chaired the Publicity,
Group Practice and CLAS committees. He sat in the committee which
drafted the Legal Profession (Professional Conduct) Rules as well as the
committee which proposed that law firms may be set up as LLCs.
Currently, he is the chairman of the Criminal Practice Committee and
co-chairman of the Review Committee on Death Penalty. He was the
Society’s President in 1993 and 1994. |
Mr M Rajaram – Senior Director, Straits Law Practice LLC |
| M Rajaram graduated from the University of Singapore in 1978. He
holds an MBA from Maastricht. He has represented Singapore on the
Incoterms Committee and the Council of Arbitration of the International
Chamber of Commerce in Paris. He is Chairman of the Singapore Indian
Chamber of Commerce and the Vice Chairman of the Singapore Business
Federation. He is the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Mali for
Singapore. He has been in active practice since 1980 and has experience
in litigation, corporate finance, corporate restructuring and
insolvency. |
Mr George Tan – Director, ChanTan LLC |
| George Tan LLB (Hons), FSIArb, FCIArb is a director of ChanTan LLC
and a council member of the Law Society. He was the chairman of the
Society’s Multi-Disciplinary Committee that presented a report on
Multi-Disciplinary Practices to the Law Society in 2002. He is a
co-author of the Singapore Court Forms and Precedents and one of the
authors of the Singapore Civil Procedure 2003 (White Book). |
Mrs Lee Suet Fern – Senior Director, Stamford Law Corporation |
| Lee Suet Fern is Senior Director at Stamford Law Corporation, the
first law corporation in Singapore. She has had extensive experience in
London and Singapore as a corporate law practitioner with a focus on
mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital markets and
restructurings. She has been involved in many of Singapore’s significant
corporate transactions and has been named a leading practitioner in
numerous professional publications including Chambers Global Guide to
the World’s Leading Lawyers, AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers, The International
Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, Global Counsel 3000 and PLC Which Lawyer.
She sits on the Council of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association, is Deputy
Chair of the Asia Pacific Forum of the International Bar Association, as
well as on the boards of a number of public listed companies in
Singapore and elsewhere. She graduated from Cambridge University in 1980
with a double first in law. |
Dato Jude Benny – Senior Partner, M/s Joseph Tan Jude Benny |
Jude P Benny was educated at St. Joseph’s Institution, Singapore. He
graduated in 1981, after reading law at Queen Mary College, London
University.
He is a Senior Partner at Joseph Tan Jude Benny, a firm of Advocates and
Solicitors in Singapore, with offices in Asia and Europe. His areas of
practice are Shipping, Commercial Litigation, Arbitrations and Ship
Financing.
He has argued a number of landmark cases that are reported in various
Law Reports. Jude Benny also sits regularly as an Arbitrator in Domestic
and International disputes, and is on the Panel of Arbitrators at the
Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), The Korean Commercial
Arbitration Board (KCAB), Badan Arbitrasi Nasional Indonesia (BANI), and
the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA). He is also
Chairman of the Advisory Committee to SCMA, after chairing the Working
Group that established the Chamber in November 2004. He has also served
on numerous maritime advisory panels, and in 2004, he was appointed by
the Minister of Transport, to the Board of Directors, Singapore Maritime
Foundation. |
Ms Susan De Silva – Partner, M/s Alban Tay Mahtani & de Silva |
| Susan is a founding partner of the Singapore law firm of Alban Tay
Mahtani & de Silva (ATMD) and heads the firm’s Corporate and Commercial
Group. She has 21 years experience as a corporate and commercial lawyer
in Singapore and England. Susan was named as a leading individual for
corporate/mergers and acquisitions in The Asia Pacific Legal 500
(2002/2003, 2003/2004 & 2004/2005 editions), and AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers
(2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 editions), as well as for General
Corporate Practice in AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers 2005 edition. Susan is
also one of the few recognised environmental lawyers in Singapore having
been named as a leading individual in this category in the AsiaLaw
Leading Lawyers 2003 as well as The International Who’s Who of
Environment Lawyers 2004 and The International Who’s Who of Business
Lawyers (Environment) 2004/2005 edition. |
Ms Serena Lim – CEO, Bizibody Technology Pte Ltd |
Serena Lim is a founding member and CEO of Bizibody Technology, a
company that provides technology solutions and outsourced services to
law firms and the legal industry. Bizibody Technology is also the Law
Society’s consultant for PRIMELAW and an approved training provider.
Serena is a regular contributor to the Singapore Law Gazette. Her
articles are primarily focused on Practice Management and Legal
Technology.
Prior to Bizibody, Serena practiced as a corporate lawyer for 11 years
in Singapore, PRC and Hong Kong. She shares her insights on “SMALL is
the NEW BIG” from her unique perspective as a trusted advisor to firms
of all sizes and as a keen observer of the changes brought about by the
information revolution in the business world. |
Mr Lau Kok Keng – Partner, M/s Rajah & Tann |
Kok Keng graduated from the National University of Singapore in
1989. He heads the iTec (intellectual property, Technology,
entertainment & communications) practice group comprising 13 lawyers in
Rajah & Tann. He undertakes a broad range of work including advising on
intellectual property, technology, electronic commerce, licensing,
sports, gaming, media and entertainment law issues. He has acted as
Counsel in litigation involving intellectual property enforcement and
disputes, domain name disputes, software development disputes, internet
defamation, IT contract disputes and telecommunications/competition law
related litigation. His clients include computer game producers, major
software and hardware manufacturers, providers of electronic commerce
and internet services, media broadcasters, lottery and betting
operators, international sporting associations, and telecommunications
service providers.
Kok Keng is a member of the International Trademark Association and the
Asian Patent Attorneys Association (Singapore representative to
Anti-Counterfeiting Committee), and is a Fellow of the Centre for Asia
Pacific Technology Law & Policy. He has co-written a LexisNexis
publication, “Patent Protection Regimes: A Comparative Guide”, and
currently chairs the Copyright & Designs Sub-Committee of the Law
Society. |
Mr Chia Kim Huat – Partner, M/s Rajah & Tann |
| Kim Huat specialises in cross-border transactions and travels
regularly in the Asia-Pacific region advising clients on a wide range of
matters, including direct investments, joint ventures, mergers and
acquisitions, infrastructure projects, corporate finance and banking
transactions. He is qualified to practise in Hong Kong, where he has
worked in for a number of years, and Singapore. He has acted as counsel
to major financial institutions, government-linked companies,
multinational corporations, listed companies and venture capital funds.
Kim Huat is currently a council member of the Singapore-Liaoning
Economic and Trade Council and a member of the Singapore Chinese Chamber
of Commerce and Industry (Economic Committee). |
Mr Kevin Wong – Partner, Linklaters; Co-Chairman, Linklaters Allen &
Gledhill |
Kevin is a partner of Linklaters and co-chairman of Linklaters Allen
& Gledhill, the joint law venture of Linklaters and Allen & Gledhill in
Singapore. Kevin is Singaporean and is qualified as a solicitor in
England and Wales and the Hong Kong SAR.
Kevin is a specialist in corporate finance, with experience advising
underwriters and issuers in a broad range of international (including
Rule 144A) capital markets transactions throughout the Asia-Pacific
region, including Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand,
Indonesia, India, the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan. His experience includes
initial public offerings and equity issues, GDRs, equity linked debt,
debt and medium term note programmes and structured finance
transactions, principally repackagings, derivatives and swap-related
transactions and programmes. He is also experienced in mergers and
acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity investment with
particular focus on financial institutions, telecommunications and
technology. |
Mr Tandip Singh – Director, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary |
| Tandip Singh is qualified as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore
and as a solicitor in England and Wales. Tandip is former head of DLA’s
Corporate and Commercial group in Singapore and his practice areas cover
mergers and acquisitions, corporate and debt restructuring, project
finance and corporate finance. He has been actively involved in a broad
range of cross-border transactions in Asia, in particular Indonesia
(since 1997), where he has represented several JKSE-listed Indonesian
conglomerates in spearheading large-scale debt restructuring exercises
and built a strong reputation as a leading specialist on Indonesian M&A
deals. |
Mr Gregory Vijayendran – Partner, Wong Partnership |
| Gregory Vijayendran is a partner in the Litigation and Dispute
Resolution Department in WongPartnership. His main areas of practice
include civil and commercial litigation encompassing banking, company
and shareholder disputes, commercial crime, corporate insolvency and
other areas of practice. Gregory has had a long-standing direct
involvement in various Voluntary Welfare Organizations for close to 15
years including being a founding member and Vice President of the
Children’s Cancer Foundation (then known as Working in Aid of Leukaemic
Kids) in 1992 and presently serving as President of Club Rainbow
(Singapore) and Executive Advisor to We-Sharecare Children’s and Youth’s
Society. In 2005, he was appointed to the Resource Panel for the GPC for
the Ministry of Community Youth and Sports. Over the years, he has given
advice to various people and groups for the start-up of new volunteer
initiatives and VWOs. |
Mr Thio Shen Yi – Joint Managing Partner, TSMP Law Corporation |
| Shen Yi read law in St John’s College, Cambridge University, and
graduated in 1991. He currently serves as the chairman of the Law
Society’s Continuing Professional Development committee. He practices
primarily as a commercial litigator and heads the litigation team at TSMP Law Corporation. He is mainly involved in the areas of
construction, banking, corporate and insolvency litigation and
arbitration. |
Ms Margaret Chew – Partner, M/s Allen & Gledhill |
| Margaret Chew graduated with a BA (Hons) degree in Law from
Brasenose College, Oxford University and holds an LLM from the National
University of Singapore. She has been called to the English Bar (Gray’s
Inn), the Hong Kong Bar, and the Singapore Bar. She was a member of the
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, from 1995 to 2000,
where she taught contract law, company law and securities regulation.
She has authored Minority Shareholders’ Rights and Remedies (Butterworths,
2000) and various articles in the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies and
the Singapore Journal of International and Comparative Law. Since 2001,
she has been a Partner at Allen & Gledhill in the Knowledge Management &
Communications team. In this role, she oversees the Firm’s knowhow
activities, library and research resources, training and development,
publications, marketing and corporate communications. |
Mr Mark Goh – Proprietor, M/s Goh Aik Leng & Partners |
| Mark graduated from the University of Buckingham, UK in 1992 and
obtained an L.LB (Hons.), 2nd Class Upper Division. He obtained First
Class Honours in Land Law and Labour Law. In 1993, he was admitted and
called to the Utter Bar of England and Wales. In 1994, Mark was admitted
and called to the Singapore Bar. After doing his pupilage in M/s Ramdas
& Wong, he established the sole proprietorship of Goh Aik Leng &
Partners in 1994. In 2000, Mark was appointed Lead Counsel by the
Supreme Court of Singapore, in their Assigned Counsels Scheme for
Capital cases. |
Mr Lim Chong Kin – Director, Drew & Napier LLC |
| Lim Chong Kin is a Director of Drew & Napier LLC and co-heads the
Competition Law Practice Group. He practices commercial law with strong
emphasis in the specialist areas of telecommunications, media and
technology. In relation to competition law, Chong Kin was involved in
the development of sectoral competition law in the info-communications,
media and print industry. In particular, he assisted the former TAS in
developing a duopoly competition framework for the telecommunication
industry in 1998 and was subsequently retained by IDA to assist in the
full market liberalisation in 2000. Recently, he was appointed the lead
local counsel to assist IDA in reviewing and developing the Telecom
Competition Code 2005. Chong Kin has also worked on several global
mergers involving competition law filing and review, the most recent
being the AT&T and SBC consolidation where he was appointed the lead
Singapore counsel. |
Mr Ong Sim Ho – Proprietor, M/s Ong Sim Ho |
Ong, Sim Ho started his specialist tax law firm in December 2001.
The Asian Legal Business named him in the “Best in Tax” category in its
2003 award and again nominated his firm as the “Tax and Trust Firm of
the Year 2005”. He has co-authored two publications in Revenue Law. Sim
Ho is regularly consulted by leading corporations in Singapore and the
region. Some of his clients include the CapitaLand Limited Group, Fraser
& Neave Limited, City Development Limited, Mizuho Corporation Bank, Asia
Insurance Group, Lee Kim Tah Limited, ABN Amro, DBS Bank, Standard
Chartered Bank and Emirates National Oil Company LLC.
Beside his professional legal career, Sim Ho sits on the board of 7
publicly listed companies in Singapore. He also serves on the Advisory
Board of the School of Accountancy, Singapore Management University. He
is a CPA in Singapore and an active member of the Institute of Certified
Public Accountants of Singapore and has recently been appointed as
Counsel for the Institute in advising its members on the implication
arising from the recent Court of Appeal case of United Project
Consultants v Leong Kwok Onn, as well as serving on its Investigation
Committee to hear complaints of professional misconduct. |
Mr Bryan Tan – Director, Keystone Law Corporation |
Bryan Tan graduated in 1996 and has practised in two of Singapore’s
largest law firms, Allen & Gledhill and Rajah & Tann, as well as the
Hong Kong office of international firm Baker & McKenzie. As a founding
member of Rajah & Tann’s Technology Practice Group, Bryan eventually
left Rajah & Tann after 4 happy years and founded Keystone Law
Corporation in 2005, a IT/Telecoms boutique law firm, with 4 young
IT/Telecoms lawyers.
Bryan started out specialising in financial services before moving on to
mergers & acquisitions and eventually IT and telecoms. This gave him
opportunities to be involved in many industry firsts including the first
mass e-mail defamation case in the world, Singapore’s first publicised
telecoms competition dispute, a pan-Asian co-branded travel portal, the
first privately-funded cable landing project in Singapore and the
world’s first registrar-level domain name dispute.
He has served on a number of committees including the LawNet management
committee, the Law Society’s IT and International Relations committees
and the Institute of Technical Education’s advisory committee. Named as
leading lawyer for IT and Telecoms by Legal500, Bryan is currently
advising as local regulatory counsel to a consolidation application. |
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