SMU Corporate & Commercial Law Club
The SMU Corporate & Commercial Law Club is latest addition to the list of stellar subsidiary clubs under the SMU Law Society ("The Bar").
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The Corporate & Commercial Law Club aims to provide law students with exposure to the different areas of law in order to give them a better understanding of the challenges and the interesting work that the various practices offer. The Club aims to do this by organising various events including, conferences, networking sessions and corporate & commercial law related competititions.Â
As a management university, SMU aims to be internationally recognised for its ability to provide strategic links with the business, government and society in its unique education pedagogy. In line with SMU’s core mission in producing broad-based, creative and entrepreneurial leaders, SMU Corporate & Commercial Law Club aims to root the SMU Law student body in strong corporate and business foundations in preparation for the rigorous challenges of real-world corporate and commercial practice. Through continued meaningful engagements with leading practitioners in the various fields, SMU Corporate & Commercial Law Club seeks to provide varied opportunities for law students to maximise their exposure with industry norms and practice, ensuring that they would be professional, commercially-savvy and business-oriented corporate lawyers.
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The Corporate & Commercial Law Week is the flagship event of the SMU Corporate & Commercial Law Club. The event will see Panel Discussions and Presentations by distinguished legal practitioners from top local and international law firms. The event will conclude with a mass networking session where students have the opportunity to talk to the lawyers from the firms in attendance to find out more about the firm. With an exciting line up of speaker and presenters, this event is definitely not one to be missed!
After serving as a Justices’ Law Clerk in Singapore, Joan shifted to corporate and banking law work at a leading Singapore law firm, before moving to London to practise English law at a magic circle firm and then in the ASEAN region. She rejoined the Singapore Legal Service in March 2013 to work in the Ministry of Law, where her work currently entails working on the legal aspects of policy formulation and implementation, as well as law reform.
Ms Yuen Thio was key in setting up TSMP Law Corporation in 1998, and is now its Joint Managing Director, heading its Transactional Practice. Her areas of expertise include mergers & acquisitions, equity capital markets and corporate transactions, in each of which fields she is an acknowledged leading professional.
Jacqueline Chan is a Partner in the Singapore office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. Ms. Chan has extensive experience advising on and executing a wide range of international corporate finance and merger-and-acquisition transactions. She specializes in structuring complex transactions for clients both within and outside of Southeast Asia.
Christopher is a Partner from Allen & Gledhill. Christopher’s areas of practice encompass mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and corporate advisory work for financial institutions and public companies listed on the Singapore Exchange. He has extensive experience in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions across a broad range of industries.
4:30pm
Registration Opens
5:15pm
Opening Address by Dean of SMU Law, Professor Yeo Tiong Min
5:20pm
Welcome Address by the President of The SMU Law Society, Mohamed Fadhil
5:30pm
Keynote Address by Joan Janssen, 2Director, Ministry of Law
5:50pm
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Stefanie Yuen Thio
Panellists: Christopher Koh, Jacqueline Chan and Lionel Leo
7:15pm
Dinner Time (Buffet Dinner provided)Â
Locknie Hsu is a full Professor and former Associate Dean at the School of Law, SMU. Locknie specializes in international trade and investment law, and international dispute settlement mechanisms. She has published widely on trade and investment law, treaty dispute settlement mechanisms, arbitration law and sovereign wealth funds in international journals, and has spoken at numerous international seminars and conferences.
Patrick Ang has been a Partner with Rajah & Tann since 1995, and he is currently the Deputy Managing Partner of the firm. He was previously the Head of the firm’s Restructuring & Insolvency practice group and is currently also the Head of the firm’s Regional Practices. He has more than two decades of experience handling both contentious and non-contentious matters. One of his key areas of expertise is in corporate restructuring and insolvency.
KC Lye is a Partner from Norton Rose Fulbright. KC Lye is a dispute resolution lawyer based in Singapore. He specialises in international arbitration and has been involved in a wide variety of contested matters in South East Asia. KC handles high-value disputes from a range of industry sectors, with a focus on energy disputes, aviation disputes and commercial fraud.
Mark is the Senior Foreign Counsel (Foreign Lawyer) at RHTLaw Taylor Wessing and an Associate Director in RHT Compliance Solutions. Mark advises financial institutions, technology companies, funds (both VC and PE), and other corporate clients on private and cross-border investments and other corporate/commercial matters. He has counselled on issues as diverse as structuring, investment channels, securities, marketing and distribution, operations, and best practices.
Adrian is a Partner from Morgan Lewis Stamford. He represent clients in litigation involving a variety of matters related to intellectual property, professional negligence, class action, defamation, information technology (IT), and collective sales of real estate. As a former general counsel of a Singapore government-linked company (GLC), Adrian counsels extensively on IT disputes.
Nizam is a Partner from RHTLaw Taylor Wessing. Nizam spearheads RHTLaw Compliance Solutions, a dedicated financial services compliance consultancy/solutions provider in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia (PT RHT Solusi Indonesia). He has had 20 years of experience and expertise in financial services regulatory compliance and litigation.
Kelly is a Partner from Oon & Bazul, and he heads the firm’s litigation practice. He handles the full suite of commercial disputes, with a particular focus on disputes in the international trade and shipping industries. His practice covers charterparty disputes, crew claims, cargo claims, salvage, bunker disputes, marine insurance, international trade, air transport claims, letters of credit disputes, freight forwarding disputes and ship chandler claims.
4:00pm
Registration Opens
4:45pm
Opening Address
4:50pm
Presentation 1Â
Presenter: Kelly Yap
Area of Law: Shipping Law
5:20pm
Presentation 2Â
Presenter: Nizam Ismail
Area of Law: Islamic Finance & Regulatory Compliance
5:50pm
Presentation 3Â
Presenter:Â Lau Kok Keng
Area of Law:Â Sports & Entertainment Law
6:30pm
Mass Networking Session + Dinner!