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SPONSORS State Street Bank and Trust Company Aaron Dauber provides legal support to the activities of State Street Bank and Trust Company throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Focusing on securities lending, he undertakes a wide range of activities, including product development due diligence, and contract and regulatory negotiations. He also represents State Street on the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.
Singh & Associates Gunita Pahwa is a partner with Singh & Associates, and an advocate registered with the Delhi Bar Council. Her core area of practice is contracts and contractual obligations. Her practice encompasses all transactional documentation and applying liabilities arising from commercial transactions, sales and lease contracts, licensing and outsourcing laws, and extends to litigation. E-mail gunita@singhassociates.in
Kim & Chang Ji Yeun Hong is a foreign attorney in the firm’s investment management practice group and Japanese practice group. She advises on financial transactions and regulatory matters, and provides advice on general corporate, labour, compliance and antitrust matters to a number of non-Korean companies. She has studied at KEIO University, William College and Chase College of Law, and is a member of the Hawaii State and American Bar Associations.
Kim & Chang Jay Ahn is a partner in the firm’s antitrust and competition group and is the chair of the insurance practice group. He counsels corporate clients on a range of competition law related matters. He also serves as defense counsel in competition law litigation cases. Since 2003, he has acted as an advisor to the Korea Fair Trade Commission, serving as a member of the Competition Policy Advisory Committee.
Kim & Chang Sung-Woo Park is a foreign attorney in the firm’s corporate governance, foreign direct investment, M&A and overseas investment practice groups. He has experience in a range of crossborder transactions, including share and asset purchases and joint ventures, corporate governance, competition law, and general corporate and commercial law matters, and in asset-backed securities transactions.
Singh & Associates Manoj K Singh is the managing partner of New Delhi based Singh & Associates. He has extensive experience in the field of corporate laws and transactional IP laws. His niche practice areas extend to corporate asset restructuring. He has several memberships at several international associations wherein he networks and counsels on these practice areas. He can be reached at: manoj@singhassociates.in
Singh & Associates Sumita Singh is a partner with Singh & Associates and heads the IP practice of the firm. She has extensive experience in trademark prosecution, litigation and enforcement; copyright prosecution; domain name disputes; brand portfolio management; and strategy counselling. She also educates others and tries to advance awareness of IP rights and related matters. E-mail sumita@singhassociates.in
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto Takayuki Kihira’s areas of expertise include M&As, acquisition finance, private equity, joint ventures and litigation. His authorship includes The Rationale for Hostile Takeover Defenses. He was admitted to the Japanese Bar in 2001, and New York Bar in 2007. He began his practice at Mori Sogo (the predecessor of Mori Hamada & Matsumoto) in 2001. Takayuki Kihira studied at Hitotsubashi University and Cornell University Law School (LL.M.).
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Junzaburo Kiuchi is a partner in the Tokyo office. His practice areas cover M&A, private equity, venture capital, restructuring, joint ventures and general corporate matters. He was admitted as a Japanese bengoshi in 1999 and to the New York Bar in 2004. He was educated at Keio University, the Legal Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan and New York University School of Law.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Takeshi Nakao is a partner and specialises in M&A, corporate restructuring, antitrust, joint ventures and general corporate matters. Admitted as a Japanese bengoshi in 1999, he is a member of the Dai-ni Tokyo Bar Association and the New York Bar. He was admitted in the State of New York in 2004. www.legalbusinessonline.com
Takashi Toichi is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune. His main areas of practice include M&A, corporate restructuring, private equity transactions and corporate finance related matters, as well as related financial transactions. He also provides advice on general corporate matters, mainly in relation to the Companies Act and the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer James Wood specialises in public and private M&As, demergers and other corporate finance transactions. He advises a number of corporate clients, investment banks and private equity firms. He was educated at the University of Adelaide and is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales. Wood originally worked for an Australian law firm in Sydney and London before joining the firm’s London office in July 1996.
KEYNOTE AND PANEL SPEAKERS Mitsubishi UFJ Merrill Lynch PB Securities Co., Ltd. Angela Krantz is the general counsel of Mitsubishi UFJ Merrill Lynch PB Securities Co., Ltd. (MUML-PB), the 50/50 joint venture between Merrill Lynch and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. She previously worked at Clifford Chance’s Tokyo office and, prior to that, Morrison & Foerster’s Tokyo office.
GE Consumer Finance Co. Masahiro Homma joined GE in 1999 as general counsel of GE Edison Life Insurance Co. He transferred to AIG in the acquisition of Edison by AIG, and later rejoined GE as senior legal counsel of GE Consumer Finance Co. Masahiro Homma received LL.B (Chuo University) and LL.B (London University) and was a postgraduate student of the University of Oxford.
HSBC Michael Hancock is head of legal & compliance for HSBC in Japan, covering its banking and securities operations. He was formerly a partner and managing partner with Lovells, and chairman of the EBC’s Legal Services Committee in Tokyo. He was admitted as a foreign lawyer in Japan in 1997 and is still admitted in Hong Kong, England and Wales.
American International Group (AIG) Companies, Japan and Korea Allan D Smith was elected to lead the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) in 2008, and is currently the general counsel for American International Group (AIG) in Japan and Korea. He has served as a vice president of ACCJ, heading the External Affairs Advisory Council during the same period. He has also been the chair of various ACCJ committees.
ASSOCIATE SPONSORS Run Ming Law Office Run Ming Law Office (Run Ming) was established in 2007 following the merger of Run Bo Law Firm led by WANG Yadong and the professional team of Junyi Law Office led by LIU Yi. With offices in Beijing and Shanghai, Run Ming is committed to providing full business legal services. Run Ming’s lawyers have many years of experience in providing foreign-related legal services. CCH China For nearly a century, CCH has been providing the highest standard of up-to-date regulatory information and workflow tools. CCH is a subsidiary of Wolter Kluwer, a listed multimedia publisher. It applies the latest technologies to customise products and service, ensuring delivery of solutions that customers require – wherever, whenever and however they need them. 65