ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2016

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Welcome to the ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2016!

Date: Friday, May 20, 2016

Time: 6:30pm sharp, cocktail

Venue: The Fullerton Hotel Singapore - The Ballroom, Lower Lobby
1 Fullerton Square Singapore

Asian Legal Business is hosting the presentation of 36 awards before Southeast Asia's legal circle. These prestigious awards will pay tribute to the outstanding performance of private practitioners and in-house teams that have significantly contributed to the evolving legal landscape of the region. Nominations are now open and we will accept submissions in the form of self-recommendations and third-party nominations (deadline to submit has been extended to 31 March).

The process will culminate in an awards ceremony on Friday, May 20. This black-tie banquet will be graced by illustrious members of the bench, legal associations and business circles, law firms, in-house departments, and the legal academe from across Southeast Asia.

Come and celebrate legal excellence with us! Put forward your own team or that of others you have worked with in the past year as an earnest act of recognition and gratitude for their great accomplishments and hard work.

JOIN THE NOMINATIONS NOW.

For inquries, please contact Yvonne Lau at yvonne.lau@thomsonreuters.com or +852 2843 6547

or Caryl Aquino at mary.aquino@thomsonreuters.com or +632 982 5938.

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GUEST OF HONOUR

Zaid Hamzah

CEO, Law Society of Singapore

Zaid Hamzah is the CEO of the Law Society of Singapore since March 2016. Admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore and Solicitor, England & Wales, Zaid has over 30 years of professional legal, business and government experience spanning the fields of intellectual property, technology commercialization, media and cybersecurity transactions as well as strategic government engagement. Prior to his appointment at the Law Society, he has served as Director at Microsoft, Chief Legal Officer at publicly-listed Telekom Malaysia as well as Senior Legal Adviser for Singapore Telecommunications’ joint venture with Warner Brothers and Sony Picture Entertainment. A deep believer in the integration of strategic legal practice with enterprise value creation and strategic risk management, Zaid has been involved in numerous business transactions across South-east Asia especially in Malaysia and Indonesia. His past strategic counsel practice integrates strategic legal risk management with commercial value creation within the context of enterprise performance management systems. He has acted as Consultant for the Malaysian government for its National Intellectual Property Policy and has advised the Japanese International Cooperation Agency for its R&D commercialization studies in Malaysia. An ardent supporter of start-up ventures, Zaid has also been deeply involved in entrepreneurial finance especially venture capital and private equity deals. Author of nine books including “Strategic Legal Risk Management in an Innovation Economy”, Zaid is an Adjunct Faculty at the Singapore Management University where he teaches “Intellectual Property Management”. He is also a regular trainer on “Strategic Intellectual Property Management” at the World Intellectual Property Organization’s training programs. Zaid graduated with a law degree from the National University of Singapore and was awarded the Fulbright scholarship for his Masters program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA.