JUDGING PANEL

 
Chau Ee Lee,
Chairman, Society of Construction Law (Singapore)

LEE Chau Ee is well versed in Asian and Western law firm language and culture with an impressive range of cultural law firm experience at partner level. As an international partner of King & Wood Mallesons (KWM), Chau Ee was most recently a Beijing based partner of Red Circle Chinese firm King & Wood, and when he was based in KWM's Singapore office, a partner of Big Six Australian firm Mallesons. Prior to that, he was a director in Big Four Singapore law firm Drew & Napier LLC’s market leading Dispute Resolution practice as its head of Construction & Engineering group (where he trained and spent the early years of his career). Earlier in his career, he was a Europe Middle East Asia (EMEA) London and Dubai partner of a US global law firm - that had a transatlantic merger with a leading London headquartered law firm - where he held administrative, management and leadership roles including office managing partner, head of practice and member of the global leadership team as well as being a founding member of that firm's Dubai office, and launched its Construction and Engineering practice. 

Chau Ee is now a Singapore based partner of UK firm Addleshaw Goddard LLP. 

Chau Ee has specialised as a construction and engineering lawyer for almost 25 years. He has a cradle to grave international construction and engineering practice that covers both transactional and contentious mandates in advising clients on energy and infrastructure (including offshore and marine) projects from conception, inception to completion of a project life cycle, focusing on dispute avoidance (involving legal, contractual, operational and technical issues) and international arbitration (seated in Singapore, Dubai and London, among other jurisdictions, conducted under institutional rules administered by leading international arbitral institutions, or ad hoc arbitration rules).

 
Do Ngoc Thinh
Chairman, Vietnam Bar Federation

Mr. Thinh is the Chairman of Vietnam Bar Federation. He manages the organization and operation of the Vietnam Bar Federation.

He started his career as a lecturer at Hanoi Law University (1986 - 1999). Then he was Head of Department of the Judicial Academy (1999 - 2004). Later he was Vice Director for Institute for Organizational Sciences, Central Organizational Committee (2004 - 2009). Since 2009 he is with Vietnam Bar Federation. 

Few of his research titles:
Member of the Secretariat of the State-level scientific program (2004 – 2009): Continue to renovate the political system in the period of industrialization, modernization and international integration. 
Lead researcher of the Ministry-level research: Improve the capacity and power of the Party’s organizations in 2008

Some scientific works published in 2019
- Report on developing the mechanism to boost the contingent of lawyers and improve the efficiency of lawyers’ practice (Reporting to the Steering Board of the Central Committee for Judicial Reform)
- Report on the implementation of Resolution No. 49-NQ/TW on the judicial reform strategy to 2020 of Vietnam Bar Federation (Reporting to the Party’s Central Secretariat)
- Report on the role of defense lawyers in ensuring the principle of presumption of innocence in accordance with the 2015 Criminal Procedure Code (Presenting in the international workshop organized by Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences)

Eugene Tan
Partner, Clyde & Co 

Eugene Tan is a partner with Clyde & Co Clasis Singapore. He leads the firm's Southeast Asia construction practice. His experience encompasses dispute resolution and transactional/advisory work in the engineering, infrastructure and construction sectors across a number of jurisdictions in Southeast Asia.  

Eugene has appeared as counsel in every level of the Singapore courts, from the state courts to the court of appeal. He also advises and represents clients in arbitrations under ICC, SIAC, VIAC, SIA and UNCITRAL rules as well as in adjudications under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act.

Eugene also advises on the review, drafting and negotiations of engineering, procurement and construction contracts and their related agreements including performance bonds, warranties and parent corporate guarantees. He has contributed to the Singapore Public Sector Construction Contract: Commentary on the Public Sector of Construction (7th Edition) textbook, and Law and Practice of Construction Contracts (5th Edition). He is a member of the Singapore Infrastructure Dispute-Management Protocol Working Group, an initiative under the auspices of the Singapore's Ministry of Law to assist parties through dispute boards, manage disagreements that arise during the course of large scale infrastructure projects in the region.

Eugene was appointed as a Senior Accredited Specialist in Building and Construction Law, by the Singapore Academy of Law in its inaugural batch of accredited specialists. He is recognised as an expert in construction and infrastructure matters by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific and Who's Who Legal for Construction. He is also ranked by Chambers and Partners for construction in Singapore and recommended as a leading Construction, Projects & Infrastructure Lawyer for Singapore in Doyle's Guide, and is also recognised as a 'Dispute Resolution Star' in Construction and International arbitration by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific.

Foo Yet Ngo   
Founding Partner, Y. N. Foo & Partners

Graduated from the University of Kent, UK with B.A (Law) Honours in 1979; called to the English Bar in 1980, and to the Malaysian Bar in 1982. She worked in a leading law firm, Messrs Shearn Delamore in Kuala Lumpur for 13 years, practising civil litigation and family law and was eventually made partner.

In 1996, she left to start her own law firm, Messrs Y. N. Foo & Partners, practising initially in civil litigation and family law and subsequently specializing in the area of family law. She has represented clients in landmark Malaysian family law cases, appeared as amicus curiae on behalf of the Malaysian Bar in seminal decisions on family law and has rendered expert opinions on Malaysian family law to Courts of foreign jurisdictions.

She has been in legal practice for 37 years.

 
Handa S. Abidin, S.H., LL.M., Ph.D.
Vice Rector of President University

Handa S. Abidin is the Vice Rector as well as a Lecturer in law at President University, Indonesia. Handa was involved as 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 graduated from Fakultas Hukum Universitas Indonesia (S.H.), the George Washington University Law School (LL.M.), and the University of Edinburgh Law School (Ph.D.).

Jasmine Karimi
Assistant General Counsel, Regional Counsel APAC, FMC Corporation

Jasmine 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.

With over 20 years’ experience in MNCs in the US, UK, Canada, HK & Singapore, across diverse sectors (Media, Manufacturing, Luxury Retail, Healthcare, Agro Science), Jasmine brings rich cross-industry and cross-cultural perspective to strategy, problem solving and risk management.

A frequently invited speaker at industry and professional forums globally, Jasmine has an LL.B. (Hons) from the U.K., and an LLM specializing in IP law from Canada. She is admitted to practice law in England & Wales, Singapore, Canada, and Hong Kong. A firm believer in giving back, Jasmine serves on the Boards of the American Chamber of Commerce, Singapore, the Singapore chapter of Association of Corporate Counsel and was previously the President of the Hong Kong chapter. She also serves on the SIAC Users Council. 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.

    
Michael Gagie
Managing Partner, Maples Group

Michael Gagie is the Managing Partner in Singapore and Global Head of the British Virgin Islands practice at Maples and Calder, the Maples Group's law firm.  He specialises in corporate (public and private work), downstream private equity work, banking and structured finance.  Michael relocated to Asia from the British Virgins Islands in 2006.  His previous experience includes working at international law firms in London, London Stock Exchange and as in-house counsel with Shell International Limited.  Michael is recognised as a leading individual in his field in Chambers Global, IFLR 1000 and Who's Who Legal. 

Dr. Mohamad Idwan Ganie, S.H.
Founding Partner, Lubis Ganie Surowidjojo

Dr. RMP Mohamad.Idwan (‘Kiki’) Ganie is one of the Founding Partners of the Indonesian Law Firm Lubis Ganie Surowidjojo (LGS) and has been practicing law for more than 40 years.  He obtained his Indonesian law degree from the University of Indonesia and holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of Hamburg. Dr. Ganie speaks fluently Indonesian, English and German. He specializes in commercial transactions and commercial disputes, corporate governance, fact-finding/investigation and shipping law. He is admitted to the Indonesian Bar and member of the Australian Law Council and the Association for International Arbitration. He is a licensed Indonesian capital market lawyer and a licensed commercial and sports arbitrator, and also Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (FSIArb). He is Chairman of the Association of Indonesian Anti-Trust Lawyers, President of the Indonesian Court of Arbitration for Sports, arbitrator with SIAC in Singapore and AIAC (formerly KLRCA) in Kuala Lumpur, and also registered arbitrator with the Indonesian BANI Arbitration Centre and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne. For the last 25 years Dr. Ganie has also been lecturing Legal Writing and Legal Reasoning at the Law School of the University of Indonesia. Dr.Ganie is the Author of “Mergers and Acquisitions Under Indonesian Law (Kluwer 2nd ed 2018

Jeremy Saw, 
Director, General Counsel, InfraCo Asia

Jeremy Saw is Director, General Counsel at InfraCo Asia. Having joined the firm in August 2015, he oversees the legal and compliance functions. Jeremy has deep experience across the Asia-Pacific region, particularly in the infrastructure, energy, mining and renewables sectors.Prior to joining InfraCo Asia, Jeremy was a Senior Associate at Baker & McKenzie, a global law firm, working from bases across Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand, managing teams on projects and transactions covering the Asia-Pacific region. Jeremy also acted as regional ASEAN-focused in-house legal counsel at BP, a global oil major, where he was responsible for providing legal solutions across various ASEAN downstream businesses.Jeremy holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) degree and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from The University of Melbourne, and also holds a Diploma and Advanced Certification for Governance, Risk and Compliance from the International Compliance Association and the Institute of Banking and Finance in association with the Alliance Manchester Business School of The University of Manchester.

Stephen Trevis 
Managing Director, Head of Markets Legal Asia Pacific and South East Asia Legal, Barclays

Stephen Trevis is a Managing Director and Head of Markets Legal Asia Pacific and South East Asia Legal.
Stephen joined Barclays’ Singapore office in February 2007, and was originally responsible for managing the Legal teams in Asia that supported Barclays Capital’s FICC and Loans businesses, dealing with Infrastructure and Company Secretarial matters. Prior to joining Barclays, he worked at Standard Chartered from 2003-2007, Deutsche Bank from 1997 to 2003 and Clifford Chance in London, Tokyo and Hong Kong from 1992-1997. 

Previously Stephen was the Diversity Committee Chairperson at the British Chamber of Commerce for a number of years. 

Outside of work, Stephen plays the electric guitar with his band, Crawford, and performs in pubs to adoring fans (including his wife and two daughters). 

Stanley Park
Managing Director & Head of Legal APAC, Scotiabank

Stanley Park is Managing Director and Head of Legal - Asia Pacific Region for Scotiabank's Global Banking and Markets Division. He is based in Singapore and is responsible for all legal matters across the region, including China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Among other responsibilities, Stanley provides (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 Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and Coudert Brothers in NYC, from 1992 - 2001; with Salomon Smith Barney and UBS Securities in Tokyo from 2001 - 2007; with DKR Oasis, as Chief Compliance Officer, in Hong Kong in 2008; with Barclays Global Investors, as General Counsel, in Tokyo from 2009 - 2010; and with Daiwa Capital Markets, as Senior Legal Counsel, in Singapore and Hong Kong from 2011 - 2014.
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.

Syed Naqiz Shahabuddin
Senior Partner, Naqiz & Partners

Naqiz read law at the Australian National University. He was admitted to the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory and the Australian High Court in 1997 and subsequently to the High Court of Malaya in 1998, where he has been practising law for more than 22 years.

He established Naqiz & Partners in 2005 after spending his formative years with Skrine and Wong & Partners (a member form of Baker & McKenzie).

Naqiz is reputed for his legal acumen and his solid grasp of industry specific issues ranging from finance, capital markets, power, property, construction, automotive, defence, technology, telecommunications, hospitality, retail, manufacturing, FMCG and logistics. He has represented and acted against some of the largest multinational companies, public listed companies, governmental and regulatory bodies as well as government linked companies. 

Having been involved in some of the largest headlined deals and transactions, Naqiz and his Firm, have been consistently named and recommended in various international publications including the Legal500, IFLR, Who’s Who Legal and AsiaLaw. Over the years, Naqiz has been ranked as a leading lawyer in Technology, Media, Data, Intellectual Property, Corporate and Projects.

Through the Firm, Naqiz has also broadened his reach across the border to Indonesia and has since established an alliance with a law firm in Jakarta, Bagus Enrico & Partners. The presence in Indonesia has enabled the Firm to cross sell services and products between the two countries. 

Naqiz is also involved in the retail and Food & Beverages industry and is responsible for the growth of several established brands. He is one of the founding members and the Vice President of the Bumiputra Retailers Organisation (BRO), a leading non-profit organization that acts as the voice of Bumiputra retailers. On a corporate scale, Naqiz was also a Board member of the Kuala Lumpur Business Club (KLBC) (2012 to 2019).

Teodoro Kalaw IV. C. Arb.
Chartered Arbitrator & President Emeritus, Philippine Institute of Arbitrators

Teddy Kalaw is the first and only Filipino to be installed as a Chartered Arbitrator as well as certified as an Accredited Mediator by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) of the United Kingdom. He is also the first and only Filipino diplomate in both international commercial arbitration and mediation of CIArb and is the only Filipino CIArb Fellow in both the international arbitration and mediation disciplines. Since October 2015, he is the first and currently only professional neutral accredited in all recognized dispute resolution disciplines by the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution of the Philippine Government. 
He was the President of the Philippine Institute of Arbitrators (PIArb) in 2014 and 2015 and then the Chair of its Board of Trustees from 2016 to 2017. He is presently a President Emeritus of PIArb. He is among the youngest to be elected a Fellow of CIArb, PIArb, the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators, and the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution. He was a co-editor & contributor to PIArb’s official Commercial Arbitration Handbook published in 2015. 
He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc. since 2017. As the founding Director of the LPU-PIArb Center for the Amicable Resolution of Disputes, the academic arm of PIArb in partnership with the Lyceum of the Philippines University, he is supervising the establishment of the first graduate degree in professional dispute resolution in the Southeast Asian region for non-lawyers. In 2019, he began service as the Deputy Secretary-General for Education, Accreditation, and Development of the Philippine International Center for Conflict Resolution, inc., the dispute resolution service provider of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, to oversee the provision of its training, accreditation, and community-peacemaking programs.  He is also a Professor of Law of Ateneo de Manila University since 2010.  
 

Karnan Thirupathy
Partner, Kennedys Legal Solution

Karnan is a Partner with the international law firm Kennedys Legal Solutions and a Director with the Singapore law firm Legal Solutions LLC. 

He has been a shipping lawyer for close to 20 years, and was appointed a Senior Accredited Specialist in Maritime and Shipping Law by the Singapore Academy of Law in 2020 in recognition of his extensive experience and expertise in this area of law. 

Having spent most of his career working in Singapore and Hong Kong, he is particularly experienced with handling complex shipping disputes arising in Asia. His clients include marine insurers, offshore energy contractors, vessel owners, charterers, trading houses and P&I Clubs. He acts for and advises clients on a range of shipping and offshore related matters including those involving charterparties, project cargo shipments, marine and energy insurance, shipping related derivatives contracts and shipping related fraud. Karnan also specialises in assisting clients in the shipping, offshore and marine insurance sectors with trade sanctions compliance and other related regulatory issues.

Karnan is English and Singapore qualified and regularly represents clients in international arbitrations, most frequently in London, Singapore and Hong Kong and also appears as Counsel in Singapore Court proceedings. He is a member of the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitrators Procedure Committee and the Maritime Law Association of Singapore. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is on the SIAC Reserve Panel of Arbitrators.

Karnan is consistently recognized as leading shipping lawyer by industry publications Legal 500 and Chambers’ Global and was also on the ALB 40 under 40 list in 2015. 

Peter Chow
Vice-Chair, IPBA International Construction Projects Committee

Peter Chow is a Partner in King & Spalding’s world-leading international arbitration practice in Asia Pacific.

He focuses on international disputes related to energy and natural resources, oil and gas, infrastructure and construction projects, in addition to other commercial disputes.  Peter has acted as counsel in numerous complex arbitration cases and has represented clients in some of the largest arbitrations in Asia involving multibillion-dollar claims.

Peter is a Chartered Arbitrator. He is on the panels of arbitrators in a number of countries and has been appointed regularly as an arbitrator. Peter has acted as counsel in numerous arbitration proceedings, including those involving ICC, HKIAC, SIAC, CIETAC, ICDR, AAA, NAI and UNCITRAL arbitral rules. 
Peter has been recognized as a “litigation star” by Benchmark Litigation Asia Pacific, as a world-leading practitioner by Euromoney Guide to the World's Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration.  He was shortlisted for “Arbitration Practitioner of the Year” at the Asialaw Asia Pacific Dispute Resolution Awards 2017. He has been named by China Business Law Journal 2018 in its “A-List”.  

Peter is a vice-chair of the IPBA International Construction Projects Committee and was chair of the IPBA Energy & Resources Committee and a council member of IPBA. He is also a member to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR and was a member of the ICC Arbitrator Nomination Committee.  

Peter is a contributing author of several authoritative textbooks on arbitration and litigation.
Peter graduated from the National University of Singapore.

Rhonda Hare
General Counsel, Asia Pacific, AccorHotels 

Rhonda joined AccorHotels in November 2017 as General Counsel – Asia Pacific.  The focus of her role is to support the various business units across Asia Pacific - including providing legal advice on development, operational and compliance matters.  

Rhonda has over 25 years of experience as an in-house and private practice lawyer working across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. Previous positions include being a Partner at Ashurst LPP (formerly Blake Dawson) and as a member of the Legal Division at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
Rhonda has an Executive MBA from IE Business School (Spain) and a Master of Law from the University of NSW.

Tiur Henny Monica
Partner, MIP Law Firm

Tiur graduated from Universitas Indonesia, a top-3 university in the country with a degree in law, and has recently completed her studies in international taxation and transfer pricing at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien: WU (Vienna University of Economic and Business) and International Tax Center, Leiden. Furthermore, Tiur is officially registered as a tax attorney at the Indonesian Tax Court; a curator of bankruptcy at the Ministry of Law and Regulation of the Republic of Indonesia, who was also nominated as the best graduate of the Himpunan Kurator dan Pengurus Indonesia (one of the bankruptcy associations in Indonesia); a member of certified capital market lawyers at the Himpunan Konsultan Hukum Pasar Modal supervised by Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (Financial Services Authority of Indonesia); and an advocate at the Perhimpunan Advokat Indonesia (PERADI). She is also a member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA).

In addition to her other duties, she is a member of the Certification Board of HKPI and manages to contribute her times and thoughts to regularly write for Indonesia's Supreme Court, for leading financial newspapers, as well as other major tax review journals and magazines. Moreover, she has been regularly invited as a speaker by some international organisation and/or institution, such as Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), International Tax Review (ITR), and Legal500. 

Trisula Dewantara
VP of Legal, Tokopedia

Trisula started his career in private practices and then decided to move in-house. The move taught Trisula how the legal world is implemented in the corporate practice, a lesson which he learnt very quickly and which allowed him to take on a number of in-house positions with companies such as Astra and Indosat.

Trisula took a leap of faith back in 2017 and moved to Tokopedia to be in the midst of a company who’s mission is to continuously changing society for the better. Throughout his tenure in Tokopedia, Trisula continued to improve and hone the legal department’s skills and value to the business: ‘When I joined, the legal department that was comprised of high spirited young lawyers basically handled anything and everything in reaction mode. I started to specialise the work and recruit people who would act as mentors and a bridge between me and the more junior members of the team. I also introduced – as far as we can – automation, precedents and templates’. All to ensure legal department’s transformation to be a more trusted business partner, and correctly positioned to support Tokopedia’s growth. Among Trisula’s main highlights with the company has been his works on fundraising events and strategic partnerships.

Wong Kai Yun
Co-Managing Director, Chia Wong Chambers

Wong Kai Yun has practised law for the past 25 years.  Her family law clients typically comprise high-net-worth individuals with especial concerns over financial settlements, and expatriates with cross-jurisdictional issues.

Ms Wong is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL), as well as a registered practitioner of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).  She is an accredited Singapore Mediation Centre Associate Mediator, an accredited Mediator on their Family Panel, and sits on the panel of their Collaborative Family Practice and is also a Mediator on the panel of Cross-Border Family Mediators of Mediation bei Internationalen Kindschaftskonflikten (MiKK), Germany.  She is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb) and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).  She is also the Executive Editor of the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, the flagship law journal of the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore.

From its inauguration in 2013 to date, Ms Wong has been honoured as part of the Top 200 IFC (International Financial Centre) Power Women, and was included as one of a select few of Singaporean lawyers listed on the Citywealth Leaders List.  She was also named in the Doyles Guide for Family & Divorce Lawyers from 2015 to date, as well as recognised by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific (Litigation Star) since 2019 to date.
 

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