This year`s Asia Legal Awards ceremony will take place on Wednesday, June 15, 2022 on Shangri-La Hong Kong Island and will be hosted by Law.com International. The awards ceremony brings together the region`s top lawyers, law firms and in-house teams to celebrate their achievements of the year. Asian Legal Business congratulates all the winners and finalists of the ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2020 The FT Innovative Lawyers Asia Pacific Awards celebrate the innovations of law firms and in-house teams in the region, which are in their ninth year. The awards will show how law firms and in-house legal teams are adapting to the growing importance of sustainability, the unpredictability caused by the pandemic and the accelerated digital transformation of the economy. For more information: www.legal500.com/events/southeast-asia-awards-2020/private-practice-shortlist/. DFDL is proud to announce that 3 of our jurisdictions: Cambodia, Lao People`s Democratic Republic and Myanmar have been shortlisted by the Legal 500 Southeast Asia Legal Awards in the category “Law Firm of the Year 2020”. Jeremy Saw is a Director, General Counsel at InfraCo Asia. After joining the firm in August 2015, he was responsible for the legal and compliance functions. Jeremy has extensive experience in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly in the areas of infrastructure, energy, mining and renewable energy. Prior to joining InfraCo Asia, Jeremy was a Senior Partner at Baker & McKenzie, a global law firm that worked from offices in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand, leading teams for projects and transactions in the Asia-Pacific region.
Jeremy also served as REGIONAL IN-HOUSE COUNSEL focused on ASEAN at BP, a global oil company, where he was responsible for providing legal solutions to various ASEAN downstream companies. Jeremy holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne, as well as a Diploma and Advanced Certification in Governance, Risk and Compliance from the International Compliance Association and the Institute of Banking and Finance in partnership with the Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester. * The above list will be updated as needed. If you have any questions about the shortlist, please email Lokesh at lokesh.bogati@thomsonreuters.com. Is there a fee to apply in court awards? Handa S. Abidin is Vice-Rector and Lecturer in Law at President University, Indonesia. Handa was one of the judges of the ALB Indonesia Law Awards 2015 and 2017-2020 as well as the ALB Southeast Asia Law Awards 2018-2019. He is a graduate of Fakultas Hukum Universitas Indonesia (S.H.), George Washington University Law School (LL.M.) and University of Edinburgh Law School (Ph.D.). Opening of | tenders Jan 15, 2020 Deadline | March 20, 2020 Finalists announced| The award ceremony will be confirmed | On October 15, Stanley Park became Managing Director and Chief Legal Officer – Asia Pacific Region for Scotiabank`s Global Banking and Markets Division. He is based in Singapore and is responsible for all legal matters throughout the region, including China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Among other things, Stanley (i) provides transaction advice and support for financial markets, investment banking, commodities, corporate credit and trade finance, and global transaction banking; — regulatory advice and support for the Bank`s commercial activities; (iii) litigation and litigation management; (iv) advise and support the Internal or Exclusive Functions of the Bank (including own investments, human resources, finance); and (v) participation in corporate governance or oversight. Prior to joining Scotiabank, Stanley worked at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and Coudert Brothers in New York from 1992 to 2001; Salomon Smith Barney and UBS Securities in Tokyo from 2001 to 2007; 2008 at DKR Oasis as Chief Compliance Officer in Hong Kong; from 2009 to 2010 at Barclays Global Investors as General Counsel in Tokyo; and at Daiwa Capital Markets as senior legal counsel in Singapore and Hong Kong from 2011 to 2014. Stanley graduated from Princeton University in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1988, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Law Review. Stanley has been a member of the New York State Bar since 1994. The list of finalists will be published (to be confirmed). The winners will be announced exclusively at the virtual awards ceremony on October 15, 2020. The ALB Law Awards are the outstanding legal awards in the Asia-Pacific region, presented annually in Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and China. The awards consist of months of intensive research and end with a black tie award ceremony in each of the markets. We cordially invite you to participate in these prestigious awards – and celebrate legal excellence with us.
We recommend all companies, individuals and internal teams to apply as we have many award categories to choose from. We invite past participants and newcomers to join the submission for the prizes. Asian Legal Business will compile all submissions, and ALB`s editorial and research teams will comprehensively review each submission to ensure that the criteria are met to pre-screen finalists. We stress that this process is fair, impartial and not subject to external influences. Chau Ee has specialized as a construction and engineering lawyer for nearly 25 years. He has an international cradle-to-grave practice in civil engineering and engineering covering transactional and contentious mandates advising clients on energy and infrastructure projects (including offshore and marine) from the design, from the beginning to the completion of a project`s life cycle, with a focus on litigation prevention (legal, contractual, operational and technical matters) and international arbitration (based in Singapore, Dubai and London, among other jurisdictions, conducted under institutional rules administered by leading international arbitration institutions or ad hoc arbitration rules). We invite you to participate in an exceptional online awards experience, all from the comfort of your own home. Stay tuned for more updates! Due to the situation in the field of public health, we have decided to hold the 16th annual ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2020 fully online this year. It was not an easy decision, but the right one for the health of our guests, participants and staff.
Some scientific articles published in 2019 – Report on the development of the mechanism to strengthen the contingent of lawyers and improve the efficiency of legal practice (under the Steering Committee of the Central Committee for Judicial Reform) – Report on the implementation of Resolution No. 49-NQ/TW on the 2020 Judicial Reform Strategy of the Vietnamese Bar Association (under the Central Secretariat of the Party) – Report on the role of the Defense lawyers in guaranteeing the principle of presumption of innocence under the Code of Criminal Procedure 2015 (presentation at the international workshop organized by the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences) I am interested in being an official partner of the ALB Law Awards, as a media/legal association.