Speakers
Day 1, 19 May 2011
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Ms Kala Anandarajah Kala Anandarajah heads the Tier 1 Competition & Antitrust Practice at Rajah & Tann LLP. The Asia Pacific Legal 500 notes that ‘Kala Anandarajah is a leading authority in corporate governance, compliance and competition issues’. Involved in almost every major competition matter in recent times, she is cited as amongst the Best of the Best - Women in Business Law 2010, and as a leading Antitrust lawyer by the The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers from 2006 to 2011 and the Euromoney Guide to the World’s Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers from 2006 to 2010, amongst others. |
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Ms Vivian Ang She graduated in 1980 from the National University of Singapore with an LLB (Hons) degree and holds a Masters in Maritime Law (Cardiff). She joined Allen & Gledhill as a Partner in 1989 and presently co-heads the Maritime and Aviation Practice Group. Her practice encompasses litigious and non-litigious shipping and aviation matters, insurance, international trade and transportation, banking, domestic and international arbitration and mediation. She is the Vice-Chair of the International Bar Association (IBA) Maritime and Transport Law Committee. |
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Mr Michael J Cavanaugh J. Michael Cavanaugh is a partner with Holland & Knight, Washington D.C. He advises ocean carriers, cruise lines, financial institutions, logistics companies, intermodal carriers and government clients on ocean shipping and shipbuilding legislative and regulatory matters, acquisitions, commercial issues, port privatization and development and offshore hydrocarbon and wind energy development. U.S. Maritime Administration (1974-77). Adjunct Professor, George Mason University School of Law, teaching International Commercial Law (1997-2005). Member - U.S. Maritime Law Association and Maritime Administrative Bar Association. Ohio State University (B.S., 1971) and Stanford Law School (Juris Doctor, 1974). |
Mr Duncan Gillespie Duncan specialises in all aspects of competition law matters, including both UK and EC merger control matters, cartel and market investigations, competition law litigation and state aid matters. Duncan has an engineering degree and before retraining as a lawyer spent a number of years working in IT for a major international clearing bank. Duncan co-authored a PLC Manual Chapter on UK Merger Control. |
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Mr Stuart Hetherington Stuart Hetherington is the Vice President of CMI and a former President of the Maritime Law Association of Australia & New Zealand. He is currently chairing the review of the Salvage Convention 1989 which the CMI is undertaking, and previously chaired the topic of Places of Refuge. Stuart was called to the Bar in the United Kingdom in 1973, emigrated to Australia in 1974 and has worked in the maritime legal area since 1976. He is a partner at Colin Biggers & Paisley in Sydney and heads up the Trade & Transport group. He is the author of Annotated Admiralty legislation. |
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Mr Joe Hurley Joe, is the Senior Admiralty and Maritime lawyer at Independent Firm, HWL Ebsworth and heads up its National Group, which is the largest, dedicated Maritime Practice in Australia. Joe practices in most areas of Maritime law and has been linked to most of Australia's leading Maritime cases in the last 10 years. He qualified in England with Richards Butler and moved to Australia 17 years ago. He is a qualified Solicitor and was admitted initially as a Barrister in Australia. He is internationally well- known , is a Former Chair of the IBA's Maritime Committee and opened our First Conference 4 years ago. He has been named as one one of the World's ten most highly regarded Maritime lawyers in both the 2010 and 2011 Independent "Who's Who legal" Journal. |
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Ms Gina Lee-Wan Gina Lee-Wan co-heads Allen & Gledhill’s Maritime and Aviation practice focusing on ship financing, leasing, sale and purchase. Chambers Asia, Chambers Global, The Asia Pacific Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal: Singapore has listed Gina as a leading shipping practitioner. Gina is a Deputy Commissioner of Maritime Affairs for Vanuatu in Singapore, on the Advisory Panel of Singapore Maritime Foundation, on the General Committee of the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration, an Honorary Legal Advisor to the Singapore Shipping Association and a Governor of Tanglin Trust School Limited. |
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Ms Wendy Ng Wendy Ng is Vice President, Group Legal at Neptune Orient Lines Limited, the world’s seventh largest container shipping company. Wendy has been involved in various roles in the maritime industry since qualification, practicing as a litigation lawyer in the initial years and thereafter heading the claims team at a P&I Club prior to her current position. She is qualified in Singapore and the UK , and is a Committee Member of the Maritime Law Association of Singapore. |
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Mr Nick Samson Nick Sansom is principal officer of Standard Asia, which is a P&I Club incorporated in Singapore and part of the Standard P&I Club group of clubs. He was previously executive director of the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration, Head of Marine in Asia for Marsh insurance brokers and principal officer of the Singapore branches of the UK P&I and TT Clubs. Nick is a graduate of the London School of Economics and trained as a barrister. He is a council member of the Singapore Shipping Association, chairing its Legal and Insurance Committee, and is a member of the Ship Liability and Insurance Committee of the Asian Shipowners Forum. He is a member of the General Committee of the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration and is president of the Maritime Law Association of Singapore. |
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Mr John P G Simpson John joined Ince & Co London in 1999, moving to Ince Singapore in 2007. He was made a partner in 2010. John’s principal areas of practice are international trade, shipping and offshore oil and gas contracts. John regularly advises in relation to the drafting of contracts across the range of the firm’s shipping practice, including shipbuilding contracts, charterparties and commodities contracts as well as associated disputes. John also advises on salvage, general average and shipping casualty matters. John acts for shipowners, offshore oil and gas contractors, P&I Clubs, H&M underwriters and for a wide range of commodities traders (oil, coal , ferrous and non-ferrous metals and soft commodities) and for the commodity trading arms of various investment banks in London and Singapore. |
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Mr Takayuki Matsui Takayuki Matsui is a partner of Max Law Office. He works principally with shipowners, operators, P&I clubs and shipyards on both non-contentious and litigious matters, including TOMAC arbitrations. Shipfinance is one of his specialties. He is a board member of the Documentary Committee of the Japan Shipping Exchange. He is an author of Time Charter Party (2004). Before becoming a lawyer he practiced as a claim manager in the marine claim department of a Japanese insurance company for 5 years. |
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Mr Monir Uddin Monir is a Marine Engineer and Associate in LOC's Singapore office. He has acted on behalf of P & I clubs, Admiralty lawyers, shipowners and charterers on a variety of marine casualty and claims matters, including hull and machinery damage investigations and surveys, off-specification fuel oil disputes and cargo oil contamination claims. He has also undertaken pre entry and in service condition surveys on tankers, bulk carriers and container ships. In addition to the above, he has acted as marine warranty surveyor for major oil field development projects, attending for vessel surveys and approvals of marine operations. Prior to joining LOC, he managed chemical tankers and was involved in the planning and execution of dry dockings, and has also taken delivery, as Superintendent, of two new built tankers. |
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Mr Lucien Wong Mr Wong was called to the Singapore Bar in 1979. He specialises in banking, corporate and financial services work and has extensive experience in debt and equity, mergers and acquisitions, banking transactions, and securitisations. Today, Mr Wong is highly regarded in his field and has key appointments in both the national and international organisations; Board Member, Monetary Authority of Singapore, Member, Board of Trustees, National University of Singapore, Board of Directors, Singapore Airlines Ltd, Singapore Press Holdings, etc. Mr Wong is the only Singapore lawyer to be named as one of Asia’s top 25 M&A lawyers by Asian Legal Business (Asia, 2009). He was conferred a Special Award for his outstanding contribution to the legal profession at the Chambers Global Awards (London, 2007), and recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the first Chambers Asia Awards (Singapore, 2010). |
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Prof Zhao Jinsong As an ex-mariner with working experience as China legal consultant of two City shipping firms in London and Hong Kong, and also as CEO of a Chinese shipyard, Jinsong is a qualified PRC lawyer and the Head of Shipping Team with the AllBright Law Offices in Shanghai, practicing all aspects of shipping law and shipping finance. Jinsong is Professor of Maritime Law, Vice Director of the Centre for Oceans Law and Policy, KoGuan Law School, Director of Ocean and Shipping Institute of CUTI, and Professor of International Shipping of the School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Construction Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he is involved into research on shipping finance and advising the government on the construction of Shanghai to be an international shipping hub by 2020. |
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Mr Tony Budidjaja Mr. Tony Budidjaja, the founder and principal lawyer of Budidjaja & Associates. Tony has extensive knowledge and has approximately 15 years of experience in all aspects of Indonesian commercial law. He was identified by the “Asialaw Leading Lawyers” surveys 5 years since 2006 consecutively as one of the most highly-acclaimed legal experts in dispute resolutions in the Asia Pacific region. Other recent surveys such as Global Law Expert and Corporate International Magazine have recognized him as one of the Indonesian leading experts in business competition and international trade. |
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Mr Chan Leng Sun SC Leng Sun is qualified in Malaysia, Singapore and England. He is appointed a Senior Counsel of Singapore in 2011. He has been a partner in Ang & Partners since 1995. He had taught shipping law at the National University of Singapore and was Adjunct Faculty for International Commercial Arbitration at SMU. He had also served as a Legal Officer of the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva. Leng Sun chairs the Law Society ADR Committee and the SIArb Education Committee. He sits as an arbitrator and adjudicator on the panel of various institutions. He is Country Commentator for Singapore in Tetley’s Marine Cargo Claims (4th ed.). |
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Capt Frederick Francis Capt Frederick Francis first went out to sea four decades ago. He took command at the age of 29 with Neptune Orient Lines before joining the Singapore Maritime Academy. Under a scholarship, he read law at Cardiff University, earning a distinction in his dissertation and was admitted to the Degree of Master of Laws. On the legal aspect, he has mediated and apportioned blame for collision, is an expert witness in arbitration and litigation cases, and was an IMO-ASEAN legal consultant. He has presented numerous papers on maritime law and written quite a number of books including one with President S R Nathan. In the shipping volume of Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore, he authored 3 of the 12 chapters including Sources of Singapore Law and Collision Law. He serves on the committees of the Maritime Law Association of Singapore, the Singapore Maritime Arbitration Association and the Missions to Seafarers (Singapore Branch). He is the current President of the Singapore Nautical Institute and the Founding Commodore of the Youth Skipper Flotilla. Capt Francis has won numerous awards including the USCG (United States Coast Guard) Public Service Commendation award, the USCG Certificate of Merit, the PSA (Port of Singapore Authority) Commendable Act award, Best Recruit, Outstanding Soldier, SP (Singapore Polytechnic) Research & Development Commendation award, Green Buddy Awards, etc. His fine balance in research, sports, academic, professional consultancy, and volunteer work is indeed remarkable not forgetting the fact that he donates blood every month and competes in the Singapore Ironman. |
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Mr Amitavar Majumdar Mr. Amitava Majumdar (aka Raja) heads the Mumbai arm of Bose & Mitra & Co. He specializes in maritime work and deals with both contentious and non-contentious matters ranging from a extensive Admiralty practice to Charterparty disputes and Sale Purchase of Vessels. He represents the Indian Government in numerous international conferences on Maritime law and has been part of the Indian Delegation to the IMO Legal Committee, the India EU and India Korea Maritime treaty discussions. He is also a member of the Governing Council of the SCMA. He appears before all the Coastal High Courts in India in Admiralty and Maritime matters and has an extensive arbitration practice. He represents many of the Indian and International Ship-owners including Great Eastern Shipping, Mercator Lines and Centrofin. He also assists the Government of India on drafting of statues and implementation of conventions into national law. Bose & Mitra are also the legal correspondents for the North of England P&I Club and RaetsMarine P&I Club in India and also works for many of the other IG Clubs. |
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Ms Corina Song Corina is a partner with Allen & Gledhill LLP. She qualified as a Solicitor in England in January 1992 and was called to the Singapore Bar in March 1993. Since qualifying, Corina has been involved in all areas of shipping and insurance matters. Her more notable cases include the 2010 “Catur Samudra” case regarding admiralty jurisdiction. More recently, she has been busy with various KLC related actions. Corina is recommended by The Asia Pacific Legal 500(2010/2011), where she is described as a “tenacious litigator” and also by PLC Which Lawyer? (2010) for her insurance work. Apart from her involvement with the MLAS, she is currently the Vice President of the Singapore chapter of WISTA. |
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Mr Shuji Yamaguchi Shuji Yamaguchi specializes in maritime, insurance, reinsurance, litigation, and aviation law. He has coauthored Arrest of Ship, Maritime Law Handbook, Japan Civil Law Code Vol. 1, and Guide Book of International Multimodal Transportation, and Shipping in 32 jurisdictions worldwide 2010. Member of Japan Maritime Law Association, Inter Pacific Bar Association (Chair of Maritime Law Committee). |
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Mr Yu Genrong Genrong Yu graduated from Anhui Normal University with a B.A. degree in English Language and Literature in l982 and received an LL.M. degree in International Economic Law from Shanghai Maritime University in l985. From 1985 to 1986, he was a lecturer of law at Shanghai Maritime University and assistant lawyer at Shanghai Law Office for Maritime Affairs. Between 1986 and 1989, Mr. Yu studied at University of Maine School of Law in the United States, and obtained a J.D. degree. From 1989 to 2000, Mr. Yu worked as an associate and later a partner in both New York and Hong Kong offices of the U.S. law firm Healy & Baillie (now Blank Rome). Since 2001, Mr. Yu has worked at the Chinese law firm SLOMA & CO. He is one f the founding partners of the firm. Mr. Yu is admitted to practice law in three jurisdictions: New York, Hong Kong SAR and China Mainland. He has gained substantial international experiences as he has practiced in three different jurisdictions for more than 20 years. He specializes in arbitration and litigation; maritime law; general corporate and commercial matters; international commercial transactions. |
