Speakers at the ALB Hong Kong In-House Legal Summit 2016*

* CPD points have been applied for with the Law Society of Hong Kong. Delegates will be notified about the exact number of CPD points the event is accredited for in due course

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Guest of Honour and Keynote Speaker

Justice Tang was appointed a Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal on 25 October 2012. He was born in Shanghai in 1947. He is married with 2 children. He received his legal education in England and obtained a LLB from the Birmingham University in 1969. He was called to the English Bar at Gray's Inn in 1969 and to the Hong Kong Bar in 1970. He was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 1986 and became a Senior Counsel in 1997. He was a Recorder of the Court of First Instance from September 1995 until his appointment as a Judge of the Court of First Instance in April 2004. He was appointed a Justice of Appeal in January 2005 and a Vice President of the Court of Appeal in November 2006. He was appointed a Non-Permanent Hong Kong Judge of the Court of Final Appeal in September 2010.

Whilst in private practice, Mr Justice Tang was at various times, the Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, the Criminal and Law Enforcement Injuries Compensation Boards, the Independent Police Complaints Council, the Town Planning Appeal Board, the Takeovers and Mergers Panel, and the Securities and Futures Appeal Panel. He was also at various times, a member of the Judicial Service Commission, the Appeal Board on Public Meetings and Processions, the ICAC Complaints Committee and the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and a non-Executive Director of the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority.

He is a member of the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission which recommends judicial appointments. He is a trustee of the S. K. Yee Medical Foundation as well as a member of the International Advisory Board of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. In 2004, Mr Justice Tang was honoured with the award of the Silver Bauhinia Star. He is an Honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn.

Summit Chairperson 

Grace Chan
Senior Counsel, Asia-Pacific, ARRIS Hong Kong Limited
Director and Executive Committee Member, Hong Kong Corporate Counsel Association

Grace Chan is Senior Counsel, Asia-Pacific of ARRIS Hong Kong Limited, part of the ARRIS International Plc (NASDAQ: ARRS) Group. ARRIS is a provider of communications solutions and equipment in the US and internationally. Grace has over 10 years of experience in advising regional and international businesses on IT and telecom contracts and providing legal support in a broad range of commercial and related matters across the Asia-Pacific region. She holds a LL.B (Hons) from Aberystwyth University and a LL.M in Information Technology Law from the University of Hong Kong.

Speakers

Philip Monaghan
Executive Director (General Counsel)
Hong Kong Competition Commission

Mr. Philip Monaghan was appointed to the position of Executive Director (General Counsel) of the Competition Commission (Commission) in June 2014. Immediately prior to his appointment to the Commission, Mr. Monaghan was in private practice in Hong Kong with an international law firm advising Hong Kong businesses, Asian companies and global multinationals on competition law issues arising under antitrust laws worldwide.

Before relocating to Hong Kong in 2007, Mr. Monaghan worked in the competition and economic regulatory departments of international legal practices in London and Brussels. With over a decade of experience in competition law, his private practice work has covered competition compliance, restrictive agreements and cartels, abuse of market power matters and multi-jurisdictional merger control.

Mr. Monaghan has represented clients involved in antitrust investigations and reviews conducted by various international competition authorities. He has been legal advisor to one of the United Kingdom's sectoral economic regulators and has assisted UNCTAD, the ASEAN Experts Group on Competition and regional Asian authorities with competition capacity building initiatives.

Mr. Monaghan was admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 2009. He is also admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and in the Republic of Ireland (though currently non-practicing in the Republic of Ireland). Mr. Monaghan graduated with an LLB (Hons) from Queen Mary, the University of London. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in EU Competition Law from King's College London and an MA in French literature from the National University of Ireland (Dublin).

Dean Ward
Head of Risk Sale Specialist, North Asia
Thomson Reuters 

Dean is currently the Head of Risk Sales Specialists for Thomson Reuters Hong Kong and North Asia. He started as a researcher for a company called IntegraScreen but after the acquisition by World-Check, he moved into a client facing role helping manage due diligence assignments on behalf of clients. After the acquisition of World-Check by Thomson Reuters in 2011, he was asked to head up their due diligence business across Asia Pacific. He has worked with some of the world's largest banks and Multi National Corporations assisting them with their Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Fraud, Pre-IPO, M&A and KYC due diligence helping them identify and manage compliance and regulatory risks.

Raymond Min-Yaw Goh
Director, Global Investments , Legal & Compliance  
Anbang International Holding Co Limited  

Raymond is the Director, Global Investments, Legal & Compliance, of Anbang International Holdings Co. Limited with oversight over Anbang Insurance Group’s strategic and principal investments around the world. His recent transactions include the acquisition of several landmark hotels and office towers in New York, Toronto and Vancouver as well as Tong Yang Life Insurance Co., Ltd., a leading South Korean insurance company listed on the Korea Stock Exchange.

Prior to that, he was inhouse counsel with a leading bulge bracket investment bank where he focuses on capital markets transactions (debt and equity), crossborder mergers and acquisitions, strategic initiatives and principal investments.

He was also formerly in private practice with one of the Magic Circle law firms and has worked in New York, London, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. His transactional experience includes several landmark transactions which were awarded the Restructuring Deal of the Year, Private Equity Deal of the Year, M&A Deal of the Year and China Deal of the Year by various international financial and legal publications. Raymond is a graduate of Columbia Law School and is fluent in English and Mandarin.

Kapil Kirpalani
Vice President, Legal and Compliance Officer
HarbourVest Partners

Kapil Kirpalani joined HarbourVest in 2014 as Vice President, Legal and Compliance Officer in Hong Kong with responsibility for the Firm’s Asia compliance program and assisting with legal and compliance matters relating to the Firm’s global operations and products.

He joined HarbourVest from Ortus Capital Management, where he served as Legal Counsel and was a member of the Management Committee. Kapil’s prior experience also includes six years as Director of Legal and Chief Compliance Officer at Pacific Harbor Capital.

Kapil received an LLB (with honors) from the University of Durham and an LLM from Nottingham Law School. He holds a post-graduate diploma in International Corporate Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science and has completed further studies at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

Atty. Francisco Ed. Lim
Senior Partner, Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department
ACCRALAW

Atty. Francis Lim is a Senior Partner and a member of the Executive and Special Committees of the Angara Abello Concepcion Regala & Cruz Law Offices (ACCRALAW).  He is the former president of the Philippine Stock Exchange and the incumbent president of the Shareholders’ Association of the Philippines (SharePHIL).  He is also the Chairman, National Competitiveness Committee of the Management Association of the Philippines, Chairman, Judicial System Working Group of the National Competitiveness Council, and a trustee of the CIBI Foundation, Inc., FINEX Research & Development Foundation, Inc. and the Judicial Reform Initiative, Inc., and a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors. 

Atty. Lim is a law professor in the Ateneo de Manila University, the San Beda Graduate School of Law and a professorial lecturer and the Vice-Chair of the Commercial Law Department of the Philippine Judicial Academy. He is also a director of several public companies, among which are the Energy Development Corporation, The Insular Life Assurance Co., Ltd., Producers Savings Bank Corporation and Tower Development Bank, Inc.

Atty. Lim was closely involved in the enactment several Philippine laws such as the Financial Rehabilitation and Insolvency Act (FRIA),  Credit Investment System Act (CISA), Real Estate Investment Trust Act (REITA), Personal Equity Retirement Account Act (PERAA), and the Philippine Competition Act. He  was also involved in the formulation of several Philippine procedural rules such as the Interim Rules on Intra-Corporate Controversies, Rules on Electronic Evidence, Rules on Notarial Practice, Rules on DNA Evidence, Financial Rehabilitation Rules of Procedure, and the Financial Liquidation and Suspension of Payments Rules of Procedure.  Atty. Lim is a member of both the Philippine Bar and the New York State Bar.

Atty. John Paul M. Gaba|
Partner and Monitor, Intellectual Property Department
ACCRALAW

John is the current Secretary and Member of the Board of Trustees of the Intellectual Property Alumni Association, Inc., and the current Assistant Treasurer of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines – Makati City Chapter. He is currently a member of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association, the ASEAN Intellectual Property Association, and the Intellectual Property Association of the Philippines. Mr. Gaba is currently a Regular Member of the Philippine Supreme Court Subcommittee on E-Commerce and a Regular Resource Person of the Philippine Supreme Court Subcommittee on Notaries Public. He is the current Chairperson of the Philippine Supreme Court’s Technical Working Group on the Electronic Filing Project.

He has also served as Panelist and Moderator in a number of seminars and workshops for various topics concerning software protection (2007), IP best practices (2007), technology commercialization strategies (2009), and intellectual property protection (2010), and served as Lecturer in various seminars for corporate clients on data protection and data privacy (2012 and 2013).

Sandra Liu
Senior Legal Counsel
Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong

Sandra is the Senior Legal Counsel of the PCPD.  She joined the PCPD in 2008.  She leads a team to provide legal advisory services to the PCPD and undertake litigation related work.  She is in charge of the provision of legal services under the PCPD’s Legal Assistance Scheme. She was involved in the review of the data protection legislation, which culminated in the enactment of the Personal Data (Privacy) (Amendment) Ordinance in 2012. She has also participated in other major projects and new initiatives including the Guidance on Personal Data Protection in Cross-Border Data Transfer and the Survey Report of Public Registers Maintained by Government and Public Bodies. 

Sandra attained her professional qualification as a solicitor in Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Laws degree obtained from The University of Hong Kong. She holds a Master of Laws (Chinese and Comparative Law) from The City University of Hong Kong.  Before joining the PCPD, she was a private practitioner focusing on civil litigation.  

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Lily Chan
Director of Corporate, External and Legal Affairs, Greater China Region
Microsoft 

Lily Chan is currently the Director of Corporate, External & Legal Affairs of Microsoft Corporation responsible for privacy, data protection and cybersecurity across Greater China Region based in Beijing. Before joining Microsoft in 2014, Ms Chan was the Legal Director of Nokia Corporation leading the APAC Legal Team advising on all company functions including sourcing, procurement, logistics, sales and marketing, privacy, licensing, intellectual property, litigation, employment and compliance. Prior to that, Ms Chan was an associate with Baker & McKenzie (Hong Kong) practising intellectual property and internet laws. Ms Chan received her LL.B. (1997), Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (1998) and LL.M. (IP/IT) (2004) from the University of Hong Kong.

Fred Sheu
National Technology Officer
Microsoft Hong Kong Limited

As National Technology Officer at Microsoft Hong Kong, Fred Sheu supports policy decision and delivers technologically relevant and scalable solutions into Hong Kong market. His main objectives are to align IT value propositions to public policies in such areas as healthcare, education, the environment, and local social and economic development; and to promote a digital agenda in top policy areas, including innovation, security and privacy, technology neutrality, accessibility, and interoperability.

Prior to Microsoft, Fred worked with Hewlett Packard (HP) Enterprise where he was the General Manager of Software for HPE Hong Kong. Fred is an active veteran in Hong Kong ICT industry, he serves in councils of Hong Kong Computer Society (HKCS), itSMF Hong Kong Chapter and the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation (HKITF). Fred graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Computer Science (Hon) degree.

Dennis Cai
President of Policy and Compliance
Dot Trademark TLD Holding Company Limited

Dennis has 12 years experience in international domain name dispute resolution, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) and digital brand protection. He was recently appointed as President (Policy and Compliance) and new member of Board of Directors at Dot Trademark to oversee policy setting, compliance and complaint handling.

He was previously Assistant Secretary-General of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) and Secretary-General of Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC) where he oversaw IP and domain name dispute resolution proceedings and the setting up of different policies for new gTLDs in Hong Kong. Mr. Cai is a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (HKIArb), Licensing Executive Society China (Hong Kong Sub-Chapter), Hong Kong Institute of Directors (HKIoD), and Hong Kong Institute of Legal Translation (HKILT). He is also a holder of two legal masters degrees, namely LL.M. in WTO Laws and MA in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution.

Sasha Kalb
Vice President Risk and Compliance, APAC
American Express Global Business Travel

Sasha joined American Express Global Business Travel in November 2014 as Vice President, Compliance & Risk, APAC, from 3M, where she was the company’s first APAC Compliance Counsel and built a brand as a trusted advisor who helped leaders grow their businesses in a compliant and sustainable manner. Prior to joining 3M, Sasha served as the APAC Regional Compliance Counsel for Avon Products, Inc. Sasha began her law career at Miller & Chevalier in Washington, D.C. She received her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and her B.A. cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University in New York.

Eric Lai
General Counsel
China Huarong International Holdings Limited 

Eric Lai is the General Counsel of China Huarong International Holdings Limited. Mr. Lai joined Huarong International in October 2014. Prior to joining Huarong, Mr. Lai was legal counsel and head of compliance at Winnington Capital Limited, an alternative fund manager managing real estate pe funds and long/short equity hedge funds, overseeing transactions and compliance matters. Before that, he worked at Sidley Austin in Hong Kong, advising on M&A, PE and corporate financing matters. Eric is Hong Kong law qualified and received his LLB in the University of Hong Kong.

Sim Sze Kuan
Vice President, Legal Affairs 
Bracell Limited

Sze Kuan is the Vice President, Legal of a listed company in Hong Kong. He was previously a partner in private practice at Singapore law firm Khattar Wong and Partners. He left practice to found a dot-com startup during the exciting 2000s, and subsequently joined one of Asia’s largest private equity venture capital funds focused on the biotech and healthcare sector. He is admitted in the jurisdictions of England and Wales, Singapore, Hong Kong and New York. He graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has been involved in too many cross-border dispute resolutions involving diverse subject matters.  

Michael Ting
Vice President, Chief Legal & Compliance Officer, Legal & Compliance – HK
Manulife (International) Limited

Michael Ting is Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, Manulife (International) Limited. He heads up the Hong Kong legal and compliance functions at Manulife. In this role, he builds and maintains the overall legal and compliance framework of the company. He provides legal and compliance advice to the senior management team that is essential to the planning and execution of Manulife’s business strategies. 

Mr. Ting has more than 20 years of solid and extensive experience in legal and compliance areas. Prior to joining Manulife, he held various senior legal and/or compliance positions at local or regional level with various major life insurers in Hong Kong. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the United States and is a qualified lawyer in Hong Kong, the United States and the United Kingdom. He started off his career in private practice as a litigator for insurance companies.

Sara Yue
Head of Commercial
LexisNexis Hong Kong & Taiwan

Sara Yue is the Head of Commercial for LexisNexis. She is responsible for driving the innovation and excellence across  the product portfolio for LexisNexis Hong Kong and Taiwan, including the creation and execution on the product development & acquisition roadmap and strategy for practical guidance, core research solutions and practice management. Sara began her career with LexisNexis as a Regional Project Manager in April 2015, when she was leading and supporting the product development and implementation of Lexis® Practical Guidance solution across Asia. Prior to joining LexisNexis, Sara led and managed many cross-functional projects and multicultural teams in both the public and private sectors in the U.S.A. and Hong Kong, including her most recent position to manage a USD $100 million corporate social responsibility program in the Asia Pacific region.

Anson Bailey
Partner, Business Development China
KPMG

Anson joined KPMG in Hong Kong in 1999 and is currently a Partner based in the Hong Kong office heading up business development across the KPMG China Practice. He is part of the Regional Consumer Markets Practice Leadership team as well as being a member of the Global Technology Innovation Centre and the High Growth Tech & Innovation Group based in Hong Kong.

Anson has been active in driving a number of thought leadership and executive briefings for senior executives covering the consumers in China and across Asia. He is currently involved in driving a number of strategic initiatives including a series of thought leadership and executive briefings for senior executives covering the consumer , technology and ecommerce arena with recent reports released including Global Mobile Payments, Consumers & Convergence, Mobilizing Innovation: The Changing Landscape of Disruptive Technologies, The Rise of the Digital Multi-tasker, Innovation in China, China’s Connected Consumers and The Changing Face of Commerce series.

Yu Yuen Wong
Principal Legal Advisor, China & International Business
MTR Corporation Limited

Yu-Yuen Wong serves as Principal Legal Advisor of MTR Corporation Limited.  He advises the Corporation on legal, regulatory compliance and corporate governance issues of its global operations, business developments, public-private partnership projects and consultancy deals.

Yu-Yuen has around 20 years of legal experience in both the corporate and financial areas spanning from M&A and capital market transactions to listing rules and regulatory compliance.  Prior to joining MTR, he held positions as general counsel and company secretary of an independent power producer, corporate counsel of an international agriculture, metal and energy commodities company, and senior finance lawyer of Baker & McKenzie specializing in aircraft and asset finance.  Moreover, he teaches part-time at the Law Faculty of the University of Hong Kong.     

Hugo Ngaw
Group Legal Counsel
Convoy Global Holdings Limited

Hugo Ngaw is Group Legal Counsel of Convoy Global Holdings Limited (HK stock code: 1019). Hugo studied bachelor and master degrees in laws in HK and PRC law in City University of Hong Kong and People’s University of China. He worked in HK and USA law firms and was legal counsel in another HK-listed financial group and a HK-listed movie company. He was company secretary of a HK-listed telecommunication components manufacturing company.

Christopher To, Executive Director, Hong Kong Construction Industry Council
Executive Committee Member, Hong Kong Corporate Counsel Association

Dr. Christopher To is currently the Executive Director of the Construction Industry Council. He is also an independent mediator and arbitrator who is on the panels of various leading global alternative dispute resolution bodies.  He has arbitrated more than hundred international cases involving both ad-hoc and institutional arbitration, and has mediated many international and domestic cases. He is an accredited mediator, chartered arbitrator, chartered engineer, chartered information technology professional and a law professor. Dr. To is a recognized authority on alternative dispute resolution techniques and a sought-after speaker/moderator at international forums. He has written substantially on the subject of international arbitration and mediation.

Prof Julien Chaisse
Professor of Law & Director, Center for Financial Regulation and Economic Development 
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Professor Chaisse is an award-winning specialist in international economic law with particular expertise in international economic law. Professor Chaisse is also a member of the ICANN Working Group that is conducting a Policy Development Process (PDP) to Review All Rights Protection Mechanisms in All Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs). Before joining the CUHK Law Faculty in 2009, Prof. Chaisse served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France, and started his academic career in Europe. Since then, Prof. Chaisse is frequently invited as a guest lecturer to many academies and universities around the world, including the Academy of International Investment and Trade Law, Columbia University, Brown University and Boston University (U.S.), Passau University (Germany) and Melbourne University (Australia) where he is a Senior Fellow to the Law School.

David L. Kreider, Chartered Arbitrator and Alternate Member of the ICC Court of Arbitration

After leading substantial IT and IP litigation and arbitration cases for the world’s top two telecommunications companies, Vodafone and China Mobile for 15 years, David Kreider started his own arbitration practice in 2013. He has been appointed as chairman, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator or panelist in more than 100 cross-border arbitration references and Internet domain name disputes, including ICC, HKIAC, SIAC, and ICDR administered and ad hoc proceedings.

As Principal of David L. Kreider, International Arbitrator, with offices in Hong Kong and Auckland, David specializes in telecommunications; intellectual property; information technology; mergers & acquisitions; securities and investment contracts; and cross-border Chinese business disputes. With his extensive China experience and Mandarin capability, he often takes cases involving one or more Chinese parties.

In the financial sector, David has experience working in three different jurisdictions across the globe, serving as Chief of Enforcement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in New York; as the Director of Corporation Finance for the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (“SFC”) in Hong Kong; and currently, as a Member of the New Zealand Markets Disciplinary Tribunal (“NZMDT”).

Gabriela Kennedy
Partner, Head of Asia IP & TMT Group
Mayer Brown JSM

Gabriela Kennedy is a partner of Mayer Brown JSM and head of the Asia IP and TMT group. She is also co-leader of Mayer Brown’s global Intellectual Property practice. She is based in Hong Kong, practising intellectual property, media, information technology and telecommunications law.

She handles the full spectrum of intellectual property work from litigation to licensing, strategic advice and portfolio management. A true domain name specialist, Gabriela has drafted over 400 domain name complaints and has rendered in excess of 200 decisions, many as presiding panellist in multiple languages. She is a domain name panellist with World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) and The Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC). Over the years, Gabriela has acted for a number of brand owners and devised enforcement strategies for them in Greater China and elsewhere in Asia. Gabriela handled scores of company name hijacking cases in Hong Kong, devising a successful strategy to enforce court orders against company name hijackers. This strategy is now widely adopted by other legal practitioners in Hong Kong. Gabriela has handled a number of IT disputes stemming from large scale outsourcing agreements as well as a number of media disputes and telecoms litigation. Gabriela has been listed in many directories as a leading lawyer in the fields of intellectual property, technology media and telecoms as well as data protection, e-commerce and the Internet and has received a number of client and other awards. A former theoretical linguist Gabriela speaks a number of European languages including English, French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian and Portuguese.

Alban Kwan
Country Manager, Greater China
CSC Digital Brand Services

Alban Kwan is the country manager for CSC® Digital Brand Services based in the Hong Kong office. He leads the team responsible for all key accounts within the China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan markets. Alban has been with CSC Digital Brand Services and affiliated companies since 2009. He has developed his expertise through managing and assisting 60 of the high profile brands within the APAC region with their new gTLD applications, and by providing strategic consultation on the application process, ICANN policy, and brand protection strategy. Alban is responsible for the overall market development for Northern Asia, advising global companies and top local companies in how to best protect their brands through effective domain management strategies. Alban has both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in management from Monash University in Australia.

Brian Lee
General Counsel
FountainVest Partners

Brian Lee is the general counsel of FountainVest Partners, a leading China-focused private equity firm.  FountainVest's investments are long term oriented, and targets high growth industry leaders in China in the healthcare, consumer, media & lifestyle, industrials and other sectors. FountainVest works closely with management teams to create value in the areas of strategy, operations, finance, industry consolidation and governance.  

Prior to joining FountainVest, he was working in the Hong Kong office of a well-known offshore law firm. His legal experience includes (i) corporate finance and corporate restructuring matters such as fund raising transactions for venture and private equity investments, mezzanine and pre-IPO financing, IPOs on global stock exchanges such as Hong Kong, Nasdaq, NYSE, China A-share and London, note and bond issuances of listed and unlisted entities, mergers and acquisitions, takeovers and privatizations, backdoor listings and company reorganizations and (ii) fund-related matters such as the structuring and establishment of offshore private equity and venture investment funds.  Brian had also previously worked in the investment banking and legal fields in Singapore and as a venture capitalist in Shanghai focused on China-related investments.  

Oliver Massmann
Partner
Duane Morris Vietnam LLC

Oliver Massmann has more than 15 years experience working as commercial lawyer in Vietnam. He practices in the area of corporate international taxation and on power/water projects, matters related to oil and gas companies and telecoms, privatization and equitization, mergers and acquisitions, and general commercial matters for multinational clients in relation to investment and doing business in Vietnam.

Mr. Massmann is currently working on several investment projects as well as taxation matters and advising the Ministry of Electrical Power on building the power generation infrastructure in Myanmar. He is a registered Arbitrator of the Vietnam International Arbitration Centre (The VIAC). He is also the only foreign lawyer in Vietnam who is presenting to the National Assembly of Vietnam in Vietnamese language and teaching International law in Vietnamese language at the Ministry of Justice in Hanoi.

Mr. Massmann is a 1994 graduate of Bochum Law University, first state exam and Ministry of Justice, Duesseldorf Germany, second state exam 1997. He is holding a LLM degree in international taxation from St. Thomas University Florida- United State of America. He is admitted to the Bar Association in Berlin and a licensed foreign lawyer in Vietnam.

Ranajit Dam
Managing Editor
Asian Legal Business 

Ranajit Dam is the Managing Editor of Thomson Reuters’ Legal Media Group, which includes Asian Legal Business, Asia’s foremost monthly publication covering the legal industry. A former lawyer, he has been a journalist for more than a decade, after graduating from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Since then, he has worked in China, India and Singapore, where he is currently based.

Speakers for the ALB Hong Kong In-House Legal Summit 2016 will be updated shortly.

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