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CounselForumSingapore
Thursday, 22 October 2015The Westin Singapore
The annual meeting placefor South-East Asias leadinggeneral counsel
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Advisory Board & Speakers
Advisory Board
Cathy Heeley, Chief Counsel, Mondel z International
Diana The, Chief Counsel, AON Hewitt
Ginney Lim, General Counsel, VP, Corporate Communications & CSR, Group
Company Secretary, Singapore Press Holdings
Sarah Woodhouse, General Counsel SEAA, Unilever
Scott Weenink, General Counsel, Ooredoo Asia
Speakers
Anselmo Reyes, International Judge, Professor of Legal Practice, SICC,
University of Hong Kong
Barry Vitou, Partner, Corporate Crime Team, Pinsent Masons
Belinda Tan, Partner, Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services, EY
Cathy Heeley, Vice President & Chief Counsel, Asia Pacific, Mondelez
International
Christopher Y. Chan, Director of Legal and Government Affairs, Redmart
How Wai Ho, Head of Compliance, Group Legal & Corporate Secretariat,Ascendas-Singbridge
Jonathan Leach, Partner, Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee
Long Huynh, Senior Associate, Hogan Lovells (Ho Chi Minh City)
Mrinal Ojha, Partner, Phoenix Legal (New Delhi)
Neil McInnes, Partner, Pinsent Masons MPillay
Raj Barot, General Counsel, Luxola.com
Sasekala Karthigesu, Legal Director, South Asia and Government Affairs,
Dell
Supriya Gogia, Associate General Counsel, Zalora
Abhinav Bhatt, Vice President, Regional Counsel, MasterCard
Nicholas Power, Managing Regional Counsel, Vice President, MasterCardAlex Toh, Legal Counsel, Asia-Pacific, Xilinx, General Committee Member,
SCCA
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Thursday, 22 October 2015
Programme
08:30 REGISTRATION
09:00 Chairmans opening remarksJames Collison, Treasurer, Singapore Corporate Counsel Association
09:10 Panel discussion:What keeps you up at night? Minimising the impact of disputes and investigations on the success of your businessSponsored by: Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee
More than ever b efore, multinational corporates are facing complex, expensive and time-consuming disputes and investigations across the globe. Theseare often bet the company problems and can absorb very significant time and resources. With both onshore and offshore regulators taking a special
interest and an aggressive stance on their ability to intervene in the activities of multinational corporates in emerging markets, the success of multinationalcorporates will be based, at least in part, on their ability to appropriately respond to these challenges. From managing local court disputes and internationalarbitration claims to complex, multi-jurisdictional disputes and regulatory investigationsand the media, political and reputational threats that followthecost of doing business in these markets has never been higher. Please join us for a discussion with senior practitioners on strategies to manage these risks on adaily basisand how they still manage to sleep at night.
Moderator: Maurice Burke, Partner, Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee
Anselmo Reyes, International Judge, SICC
Cameron Ford, General Counsel and Arbitration, RioTinto
Dagfinn Nygaard, Managing Counsel, Asia-Pacific, ConocoPhillips
10:00 Panel discussion: Tell-tale signs of employee fraudSponsored by: EY
The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Report to the Nation indicates that a typical organisation loses 5% of its revenue to employee fraudequivalent to USD3.5trn worldwide. The ACFE study al so indicates that the median loss of employee fraud is USD145,000. Besides monetary loss, there is alsoreputational exposure that organisations need to consider. During this session, the panel will be discussing the following: Trends of employee fraud in this region Profile of employee fraud Top 10 tell-tale signs of employee fraud and how to detect them Some measures to adopt to prevent falling victim to such schemes
Belinda Tan, Partner, Fraud Investigation and Dispute Ser vices, EY
Cathy Heeley, Vice President, Chief Counsel, Asia-Pacific, Mondel z
Neil McInnes, Partner, Pinsent Masons MPillay
10:50 COFFEE BREAK
11:20 Breakout sessions
Focus Group B: Compliance investigations in South-east AsiaSponsored by: Pinsent Masons MPillayThis interactive workshop session will explore some of the recent trends infraud, corruption and money-laundering investigations in the region, as wellas survey how effective internal investigations are essential components
of strong corporate compliance programmes. Through sample scenarios,the panel will discuss key dos and donts for managing compliance-relatedcritical incidents, such as: Preparation: developing a crisis management toolkits and investigations
protocols Dealing with whistle-blower reports and red flags arising from audits, risk
assessment and third-party due diligence Understanding the approaches of regional and international law
enforcement agencies when companies investigate themselves Reporting obligations and proactive co-operation with regulators Practical steps for good evidence gathering Remediation strategies and concluding an internal investigation
Neil McInnes, Partner, Pinsent Masons MPillay (Singapore)
Barry Vitou, Partner, Pinsent Masons (London)
Focus Group C: Five years of innovation: a discussion on what newtechnologies and alternative legal models mean for corporatecounselSponsored by: Thomson Reuters
The past five years have seen phenomenal growth in the range of new
legal technologies and alternatives to the traditional law firm modeland the amount of information available on the Internet. In this panel,corporate counsel from the region share their experiences with these newdevelopments and talk about what worked, what didnt and how they haveadapted innovations first developed for foreign markets for use in South-eastAsia.
The discussion will cover: What technologies, systems and alternative models are available and how
they have evolved over the past f ive years The best (and worst) experiences local corporate counsel have had
introducing new technologies and models to their law departments Adapting innovations developed in the US for law departments in South-
east Asia Strategies for articulating to management the return on investing in
innovation for the law department
Moderator: Peter Davies, Head of Editorial, Practical Law, Thomson Reuters
How Wai Ho, Head of Compliance, Group Legal and Corporate Secretariat,Ascendas-Singbridge
Nicholas Power, Managing Regional Counsel, Vice-president, MasterCard
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Thursday, 22 October 2015
Programme
12:20 Lunch address: Inspiring young talent in the in-house counsel communityAlex Toh, Legal Counsel, Asia-Pacific , Xilinx, General Committee Member, SCCA
12:35 LUNCH
13:35 Breakout sessions
Focus Group A: E-commerce: a blueprintfor GCsnavigating the complex web of
regulations in the regionThe Asia-Pacific region is now the largeste-commerce market in the world with only onlineretailers winning market share over brick-and-mortar stores in South-east Asia. Singapore is themost established e-commerce marketplace in theregion. While the industr y is developing rapidly,the laws and regulations in the region do notkeep up. This session will delve into issues that aGC will come across in their daily work and give acomprehensive overview on: Finding creative ways to address potential legal
issues that are not explicitly covered by localregulations and laws
How to deal with the issue of recognition ofe-contracts in the region and pitfalls to avoid
Legal challenges with electronic and mobilepayment solutions
Intellectual-property issues
Moderator: Abhinav Bhatt, Vice-president,Regional Counsel, MasterCard
Supriya Gogia, Associate General Counsel, Zalora
Christopher Y Chan, Director, Legal andGovernment Affairs, Redmart
Raj Barot, General Counsel, Luxola
Gladys Chun, General Counsel, Lazada
Focus Group B: Protecting your businessand investment in South-east Asia: the dos
and donts of dispute resolution clausesand investment treaty protectionSponsored by: Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee
Dispute resolution is time-consuming andexpensive, and it absorbs valuable managementresources. This interactive session will discusssome practical ways to minimise the cost ofcontract disputes before they happen, including: Structuring a deal to maximise the available
investment treaty protection Making the right forum choice (such as onshore
or offshore) at the contracting stage Drafting an accurate and informed dispute
resolution clause to ensure a smoother p ath tofuture enforcement
The session will have a particular focus on India,
Vietnam and Indonesia. During the discussion ourpanel, which comprises specialist practitioners onthose jurisdictions, will draw upon their firsthandexperiences and also outline recent relevantreforms.
Jonathan Leach, Partner, Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee(Singapore)
Maurice Burke, Partner, Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee(Singapore)
Long Huynh, Senior Associate, Hogan Lovells (HoChi Minh City)
Mrinal Ojha, Partner, Phoenix Legal (Delhi)
Sylvia Tee, Director of Arbitration and ADR, Asia,ICC
Focus Group C: Becoming a strategicbusiness leader: top tips for GCs
Sponsored by: Nabarro LLPNabarro has published four reports for generalcounsel, covering issues such as measuringvalue, managing teams and achieving influence.This interactive session will explore some ofthe challenges that GCs face in delivering andadding value for their companies, including thedevelopment of in-house legal teams and theachievement of wider influence and s trategicleadership within the business. It will includematerial from Nabarros latest sur vey on theevolving role of general counsel.
Jonathan Warne, Partner, Nabarro
Stanley Park, Managing Director, Head of Legal,Asia-Pacific, Scotiabank
14:35 COFFEE BREAK
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Thursday, 22 October 2015
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15:05 Panel discussion:Cyber riskswhat every GC needs to know in order to protect their businessCyber-attacks are one of the most serious threats facing global businesses today. The virtual certainty that a firm will be the victim of an attack combinedwith the potential for catastrophic exposure are making clients increasingly worried about the risks of cyber-attacks. Focusing on taking steps to prevent andrespond to such attacks is of utmost importance to GCs in region. This session will look into: Strategies for an immediate global response to a cyber-security incident from a legal and investigatory perspective Assessing the risk and determining the action plan in advance, to be preparedpractical steps to minimise exposure before a breach occurs
Moderator: Pravin Pandey, Manager, I-Analysis
Ben Gerber, Head of Privacy and Data Governance, DBS Bank
Ben Wootliff, Head of Cyber Security Practice, Asia , General Manager (Hong Kong), Control RisksChristopher Y Chan, Director, Legal and Government Affairs, Redmart
15:55 Global Innovation ExchangeIn association withDell
Global Innovation Exchange is Legal Weeks global offeringthese exchanges are to take place across the International Corporate Counsel Forum S eries inDubai, London, New York, Johannesburg, Hong Kong and Singapore. At the end of the year, every participant will receive a written report of the key findingsfrom across the globe, creating a truly global peer-to-peer network discussion.
The third Innovation Exchange session in Singapore will focus on: Constant pressure on GCs to reduce their budgetshow can GCs find innovative ways to cut legal spending in the current complex regulatory
environment, with increased scrutiny on compliance and greater reach of extra-territorial legislation? What can be done differently to ensure that GCs create value for their business es and legal teams in a more for less/same and different for same/less
environment?
Sasekala Karthigesu, Legal Director, South Asia and Government Affairs, Dell
16:40 Chairmans closing remarks
James Collison, Treasurer, Singapore Corporate Counsel Association
17:00 CLOSE AND COCKTAIL RECEPTION
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EY
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Hogan Lovells
Hogan Lovells is one of the worlds largest global law firms, with over 2,600 lawyers operating out of more than 40 officesglobally. Established in 1998, our Singapore office is the gateway for our firms activities in South East Asia. Since establishingour joint venture with leading Singapore firm Lee & Lee in 2001, we have been able to provide clients with international andSingapore law advice on all areas of dispute resolution.
Our disputes team in Singapore is headed by highly regarded, Maurice Burke. With one of the biggest teams in Singapore,we offer our multinational clients a full suite of dispute services including arbitration, continuous regulatory, investigations,arbitration, business restructuring and turnaround and litigation. Our highly regarded team of four partners, has over 50 yearsof combined legal experience in Asia and has ex tensive expertise working with trusted counsel to resolve disputes in theregion.
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Nabarro
Nabarro is a major commercial law firm renowned for our positive, practical approach. Our aim is to deliver the highest qualityadvice as clearly and concisely as possible, no matter how complex the situation. We are an ambitious partnership, with over100 partners offering a broad range of legal services to major national and international clients. The firms headquarters arein central London, with a network of offices in Manchester, Sheffield, Brussels, Dubai and Singapore. Through the BroadlawGroup, our alliance with four leading European law firms, we are able to draw on the exper tise of more than 1000 lawyers,based in 27 cities across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. For further information visit www.nabarro.com
Pinsent Masons
Pinsent Masons MPillay LLP is the Singapore joint law venture between Pinsent Masons LLP and MPillay. Pinsent Masons bringstogether the skills of over 1,700 lawyers across Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. With 20 offices globally, wherever youare we can support you.
With over 30 years experience in Asia, in addition to Singapore, we have offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai and, as of July2015, offices in Sydney and Melbourne. We have a particular emphasis on the requirements of clients drawn from our GlobalSectors of Financial Services, Advanced Manufacturing & Technology, Energy and Infrastructure. We deliver a strong localpresence with a deep understanding of the commercial environments and markets that our Asia Pacific clients work in. This isoverlaid by our international expertise and ability to deploy a worldwide pool of resources to our clients.
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Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is the leading source of intelligent information for the worlds businesses and professionals, providingcustomers with competitive advantage. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting,intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the worlds most trusted news organization.
Thomson Reuters Legal has gained recognition for providing practitioners with topical and affordable local legal publicationsin South East Asia. In addition to its local publishing, we also provide online research solutions and law firm operations andmanagement solutions.
For more information, go to http://thomsonreuters.com/legal/asia-pacific/
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Exhibitors
AdventBalance
AdventBalance is a new model law firm and consulting business offering innovative and flexible legal solutions. The businesswas established in Australia in 2008 and now has over 200 lawyers and consultants across 6 offices in the region. The firm isdifferent as we specialize in providing our services by way of secondment on a flexible and f ixed fee basis ensuring our clientshave budget certainty.
Our lawyers and consultants can help you manage the demands of a particular project, assist with a spike in workload or justcover for a gap in manpower such as maternity or leave of absence. The firm acts for a broad range of clients throughout theregion including major international investment banks, multi-nationals, hedge funds and SMEs.
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Azeus Convene
Azeus Convene: Board Meeting Software and Paperless Boardroom Solution
Azeus Convene is an advanced paperless meeting solution that keeps meetings paperless, efficient, and secure, for Boards ofDirectors and beyond.
Trusted by enterprises from over 20 countries - including Fortune 500, FTSE 100 companies, banks and governmentorganisations - Convene is intuitively designed with airtight security to protect the most sensitive information of the Board.Accessible on iPads, tablets, and laptops; with hosted and self-hosted options, directors can securely view meetings, access
documents and work from any device in any location.Convene makes meeting preparation paperless from start to finish. Secretariats save cost, effort and time by compiling anddisseminating meeting materials electronically and ef ficiently. Information for multiple boards and committees, includinglast-minute revisions, can be organised and accessed from one application, with instant distribution to directors devices.
To learn more about Azeus Convene, please come to our booth or visit www.azeusconvene.com
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Exhibitors
Media partner
I-Analysis
Established in 2006, I-Analysis is a leading Digital Investigations and Electronic Discovery service provider in Asia. Our tailoredservices include:
Digital Forensics Electronic Discovery Data Recovery Online Investigations Information Governan ce Training
Our experienced teams provide consistent and valuable support to law firms, in-house counsel and internal investigators. Withdata centres in Singapore and Hong Kong and a mobile electronic discovery solution, we offer flexibility as to where our clientsdata is processed, stored and reviewed.
Our Digital Forensics services ensure that all evidence is forensically sound and thus acceptable in a court of law. Ourconsultants have provided expert witness testimony in civil and criminal matters.
With extensive regional experience we are regularly deployed in countries around A sia to provide on-the-ground support. Aselectronic evidence plays a more prominent role in investigations, litigation and regulatory matters, companies need to rely onknowledgeable forensic consultants to get the evidence they need.
www.i-analysis.com.sg
Policy and Regulatory Report (PaRR)
Policy and Regulatory Report (PaRR) provides forward-looking proprietary intelligence on antitrust issues, competition law,merger review, intellectual property, international trade and trade disputes, litigation and FCPA/anti-bribery legislation.
We have on-the-ground teams of specialized journalists based in the regulatory capitals of the world. In Asia, we have 50journal ists cover ing mainland Chi na, Hong Kong, Aus tralia, South Korea, Japan, India, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia,Thailand, India and Pakistan. Leveraging an extensive network of sources among regulators, policy-makers and global experts,PaRR delivers unrivalled coverage of global competition matters. We help our readers stay ahead of the market and theircompetitors, providing insight into merger filings and investigations, connecting the dots globally, and analyzing regulatorydevelopments and their impact in Asia-Pacific.
LexisNexis
LexisNexis is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in thelegal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. We provide research andanalytical solutions for Knowledge Driven Professionals and help them achieve excellence. LexisNexis serves customers inmore than 100 countries with 18,000 employees worldwide. Our service contains more than five billion searchable documentsfrom over 32,000 legal, business and news sources and 19,000 databases.
To date, we have over 2.1 million professional subscribing to the service worldwide, with 97 percent of customers comprisingFortune 500 companies. LexisNexis Online Products encompasses a variety of web-based services that allow you to accessthe vast repository of information efficiently and accurately.
For more information, please visit www.lexisnexis.com.sg
Supporting organisations
Singapore Chapter - Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)
The ACC Singapore Chapter serves more than 160 in-house lawyers, representing more than 70 organizations throughnetworking, knowledge sharing and continuing legal education on behalf of the in-house profession. Established in July2013, the Singapore Chapter provides a local network for Association of Corporate Counsel members in the region. Seminarsand roundtables are held monthly at law firms with regular networking gatherings. Globally, the ACC membership includes adiverse mix of more than 35,000 in-house lawyers who represent more than 10,000 companies in 85 countries worldwide.
www.acc.com/chapters/singapore/
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International Chamber of Commerce
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) offers a wide array of dispute resolution services specifically intended forinternational commerce and cross-border transactions.
Our flagship service is ICC arbitration, which carries the hallmark of the ICC International Court of Arbitration: a world leaderin resolving international commercial disputes. Since its creation in 1923, the Court has administered over 20,000 cases fromacross the world. Our International Centre for ADR provides complementary services, including mediation and other forms ofamicable dispute settlement, expertise, dispute boards and DOCDEX proceedings.
The ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR is ICCs rule-making and research body for dispute resolution services, and a
unique think tank on international dispute resolution. The Commission drafts and revises the various ICC rules for disputeresolution, covering arbitration, mediation, experts and expertise, and dispute boards.
On 5 June 2014, the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR published a new guide entitled Effective Management ofArbitration: A Guide for In-House Counsel and Other Party Representatives. The Guide provides in-house counsel and otherparty representatives, such as managers and government officials, with a practical toolkit for making decisions on how toconduct an arbitration in a time- and cost-effective manner, having regard to the complexity and value of the dispute. TheGuide can also assist outside counsel in working with party representatives to that effect.
www.iccadr.org
Malaysia Corporate Counsel Association
The Malaysian Corporate Counsel Association is a body registered under the S ocieties Act, 1966. Established in August 2006,membership in the MCCA is open to any person who holds a degree in law from a tertiary institution who is not in professionallegal practice. The MCCAs vision is to be the premier organisation for the promotion and facilitation of networking,
knowledge-sharing and continuing legal education for the corporate counsel community in Malaysia and the enhancement ofthe communitys profile among the legal fraternity and the general public.
The MCCAs vision is to be the premier organisation for the promotion and facilitation of networking, knowledge-sharing andcontinuing legal education for the corporate counsel community in Malaysia thereby enhancing their value to any organisationin which they serve, and raising their profile among the legal fraternity and the general public.
Mission
The MCCA is committed to furthering the interests of its members by:
Introducing members to a network of like-minded professionals andleveraging on their strengths on issues of mutualinterest;
Providing access to opportunities for professional development on topics of interest through events such as seminars,workshops, conferences as well as periodic updates;
Liaising with selected professional bodies locally and overseas for mutual benefit; and providing a platform from whichto develop and enhance the profile of the Association by highlighting the role of its members as solution providers to theorganisations in which they serve.
www.mcca.com.my
Supporting organisations
Singapore Academy of Law
The Singapore Academy of Law (the Academy) is the promotion and development agency for Singapores legal industry, withthe vision of making Singapore the legal hub of Asia.
The Academy aims to drive legal excellence through developing thought leadership, world class infrastructure and legalsolutions. Its work focusses on building up the intellectual capital of the legal profession by enhancing legal knowledge,raising the international profile of Singapore law, promoting Singapore as a centre for dispute resolution and improving thestandards and efficiency of legal practice through continuing professional development and the use of technology.
As a body established by Statute, the Academy also under takes statutory functions such as stakeholding services, appointmentof Senior Counsel, Commissioners for Oaths and Notaries Public.
The Academy is led by a Senate headed by Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon, and comprises the Attorney-General, the Supreme
Court Bench and key leaders of the various branches of the legal profession. It has more than 10,000 members, including theBench, all persons who are called as advocates and solicitors of the Supreme Court (i.e. the Bar), or who are appointed as LegalService Officers, corporate counsel, faculty members of the two local law school s (i.e. the National University of Singapore andthe Singapore Management University) and foreign lawyers in Singapore.
www.singaporelaw.sg/sglaw/
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Supporting organisations
Singapore International Mediation Centre
Officially launched in November 2014, the Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC) is an independent, not-for-profitcompany that provides world-class mediation services targeted at the needs of parties facing cross-border commercialdisputes, particularly those based in Asia. SIMC builds on Singapores reputation for quality legal services, and will play a keyrole alongside the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and the Singapore International Commercial Court inpositioning Singapore as the premier one-stop destination for the resolution of disputes in Asia and in the world.
SIMCs key features are as follows:
Leadership from an international Board of Directors comprising eminent mediation and arbitration experts, business usersand industry stakeholders.
International panel of more than 65 renowned mediators drawn from 14 countries all over the world and speaking 14languages, independently certified by the Singapore International Mediation Institute.
International panel of more than 65 technical experts from various industry sectors who can assist the mediator in complexcommercial disputes involving technical questions.
Unique Arbitration-Mediation-Arbitration (Arb-Med-Arb) service offered in collaboration with SIAC, which will enablemediated settlement agreements to be enforced as consent awards. The Arb-Med-Arb service has been designed to providemaximum value at minimal cost, eff iciency coupled with flexibility and confidentiality combined with enforceability, allwithin an institutional framework and rules that incorporate global best practices.
Professional case management service under the SIMC Mediation Rules and appointing authority service from SIMCs panelof mediators.
SIMC can make arrangements for the conduct of mediations at the state-of-the-art dispute resolution facility of MaxwellChambers, which offers customised mediation suites.
http://simc.com.sg
Singapore Mediation Centre
Established in 1997, the Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC) pioneered the use of mediation as the mainstream mechanismfor dispute resolution, as well as training in negotiation and conflict management. Today, SMC offers a suite of alternativedispute resolution services which brings clarity and objectivity to complex situations. These services include mediation,neutral evaluation and domain name dispute resolution. Through our panel of professional mediators with legal and industryexpertise, SMC is well-placed to manage difficult negotiations and unlock standstills for businesses by providing cost-effectiveand timely solutions. At SMC, our vision is to help all businesses fully appreciate the value of mediation as a strategic risk-management tool that they can count on in commercial dealings.
www.mediation.com.sg
Singapore Corporate Counsel A ssociation
Singapore Corporate Counsel Association is the national organisation in Singapore that represents the in-house counselcommunity. Incorporated as a society in 2002, the SCCAs vision is to:
Foster a dynamic community of professional corporate counsel which will give its members the chance to network withother in-house counsel and to share information and resources.
Coordinate continuing educational opportunities.
Raise the profile of the in-house lawyers community in Singapore.
SCCA aims to provide a platform to establish views in respect of issues that concern the in-house lawyers community and therespective employers, in order to provide a collective voice where representation is needed on behalf of the in-house lawyerscommunity.
www.scca.org.sg
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