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The ACC Hong Kong Board of Directors invites you to the following presentation, hosted by:

The Labour Tribunal has exclusive jurisdiction to determine most employment-related claims. Therefore, when employment disputes arise, employers will often find themselves in situations requiring the assistance from and attendance at the Labour Tribunal. Understanding the rules and procedures adopted by the Labour Tribunal is therefore vital to in-house counsel, who are often required to provide legal advice and look after various aspects of a labour claim by employees against the employer, and even attend Labour Tribunal proceedings.

This webinar will give you the essentials of Labour Tribunal proceedings. We will discuss practical legal and procedural issues commonly faced by employers and employees in Labour Tribunal proceedings:

• What is the Labour Tribunal? What does it do?
• What kind of claims can you bring before the Tribunal?
• How do you file a claim? What happens after you file a claim?
• Who are the Tribunal Officers? What are their roles?
• What do you need to do when a claim has been filed against you?
• Can you settle the claim? How do you do it?
• Can you instruct lawyers to represent you?
• What happens at the call-over hearing?
• What happens at the trial?
• What happens after the trial?
• Can you claim costs?

SPEAKERS:

Michael Szeto, ONC Lawyers

Michael Szeto is a litigation partner of ONC Lawyers and heads the firm’s Employment practice. He has many years of experience in handling complex commercial dispute resolution, shareholders’ and joint venture disputes, bankruptcy and insolvency matters, debt recovery and mortgagee actions. He also routinely deals with regulatory actions and compliance matters under the Securities and Futures Ordinance, the Hong Kong listing rules and anti-money laundering laws and guidelines.

EVENT DETAILS:

Venue: Webinar details will be forwarded upon registration

Date:  Tuesday, 13 April 2021

Time: 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

CPD Points: CPD points have been applied for.  Please note you need to be logged in for the full duration of the webinar to qualify for CPD points. Unfortunately, points cannot be applied for members who join the webinar via telephone link

The ACC Hong Kong Board of Directors invites you to the following presentation, hosted by:

The Labour Tribunal has exclusive jurisdiction to determine most employment-related claims. Therefore, when employment disputes arise, employers will often find themselves in situations requiring the assistance from and attendance at the Labour Tribunal. Understanding the rules and procedures adopted by the Labour Tribunal is therefore vital to in-house counsel, who are often required to provide legal advice and look after various aspects of a labour claim by employees against the employer, and even attend Labour Tribunal proceedings.

This webinar will give you the essentials of Labour Tribunal proceedings. We will discuss practical legal and procedural issues commonly faced by employers and employees in Labour Tribunal proceedings:

• What is the Labour Tribunal? What does it do?
• What kind of claims can you bring before the Tribunal?
• How do you file a claim? What happens after you file a claim?
• Who are the Tribunal Officers? What are their roles?
• What do you need to do when a claim has been filed against you?
• Can you settle the claim? How do you do it?
• Can you instruct lawyers to represent you?
• What happens at the call-over hearing?
• What happens at the trial?
• What happens after the trial?
• Can you claim costs?

SPEAKERS:

Michael Szeto, ONC Lawyers

Michael Szeto is a litigation partner of ONC Lawyers and heads the firm’s Employment practice. He has many years of experience in handling complex commercial dispute resolution, shareholders’ and joint venture disputes, bankruptcy and insolvency matters, debt recovery and mortgagee actions. He also routinely deals with regulatory actions and compliance matters under the Securities and Futures Ordinance, the Hong Kong listing rules and anti-money laundering laws and guidelines.

EVENT DETAILS:

Venue: Webinar details will be forwarded upon registration

Date:  Tuesday, 13 April 2021

Time: 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

CPD Points: CPD points have been applied for.  Please note you need to be logged in for the full duration of the webinar to qualify for CPD points. Unfortunately, points cannot be applied for members who join the webinar via telephone link

The ACC Hong Kong Board of Directors invites you to the following presentation, hosted by:

This seminar will cover how to design an overall patent strategy for China; whether to patent or not; Freedom to Operate (identifying patents that your company may infringe; developing work arounds, invalidating or being prepared to invalidate); Administrative remedies (including customs protection); and litigation and arbitration both inside and outside China.

SPEAKERS:

Douglas Clark and Li Mi

Doug Clark is the Global Head of Dispute Resolution at Rouse. He has been practicing IP law in China and Hong Kong for over 25 years. For 11 years he was based in Shanghai where he established and ran the IP group of a major international law firm. Doug handles as counsel patent litigation and arbitration cases in China and other countries and has sat as an arbitrator on a number of high tech patent cases in China. He practiced as a barrister for 9 years before joining Rouse in 2020. He is author of Patent Litigation in China (2015, OUP) and co-author of Intellectual Property in China (2021, Max Planck) in which he contributed the chapter on enforcement of IP rights. Doug speaks Mandarin and Japanese.

Li Mi is the head Principal and Head of China Patent Group at Lusheng Law Firm, a member of the Rouse Network. With an IP practice spanning over 20 years, Li Mi has extensive experience in advising businesses to capture and securing valuable IP assets, conducting competitive landscape searches, managing IP portfolio, mitigating potential IP risks, and supporting IP transactions. Her technical expertise includes machinery, electro-mechanics, engineering technology, and semiconductor technology.

EVENT DETAILS:

Venue: Webinar details will be forwarded upon registration

Date:  Wednesday, 24 March 2021

Time: 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

CPD Points: CPD points have been applied for.  Please note you need to be logged in for the full duration of the webinar to qualify for CPD points. Unfortunately, points cannot be applied for members who join the webinar via telephone link

The ACC Hong Kong Board of Directors invites you to the following presentation, hosted by:

As the future becomes increasingly unpredictable, it's becoming harder for businesses to make short-term and long-term strategic decisions. There is one thing that could help - data and metrics! Data is known to be the new oil of the digital era and is becoming a priority for many legal teams.

COVID has pushed many of us to look at much-needed changes in our organisations and legal teams, and enabling a more data-driven culture through the use of metrics is high on the priority list. In this session, we will discuss with our esteemed panel of legal leaders their insights on data as well as their journey on driving a culture where data is at the centre of decision-making.

Key themes will include:

• How do you start enabling a data-driven culture in legal teams?
• How do you build and drive a data strategy?
• What are some of the key kind of data metrics to look at?
• What are some useful tools and technologies for measuring data?
• What impact has this had on the operating model of your legal team?  

This will be an important session for those legal leaders who want to take their legal teams into the new digital era. Be sure to join this important conversation!

SPEAKERS:

Titus Rahiri - CEO & Founder, KorumLegal

Titus Rahiri is a founder, legal innovator and experienced general counsel with nearly 20 years’ experience in private practice, in-house in listed companies (NASDAQ, FTSE and NZX) as well as start-up companies. Titus previously held a senior legal leadership role at Expedia Inc. and has led legal teams globally. He has a keen interest in the business of law and technology-enabled legal solutions. Having worked in his native New Zealand, London, and Hong Kong and across many countries, Titus became increasingly frustrated by the lack of innovation in the legal sector and recognised the need for innovation and transformation in the legal services space. He decided to be the change he wanted to see with the launch of KorumLegal in March 2016 – a legal solutions company providing a platform for bespoke People, Process and Technology and Managed Legal Services solutions across Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

Jacqueline Schrader - Jacqueline Schrader is the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's Executive General Manager, General Counsel Group Services Legal. In this role, she leads the Group’s Regulatory, Litigation, Employment, Financial Advice, Superannuation and Institutional Banking & Markets legal teams. Prior to this, Jacqui led the Commonwealth Bank’s response to the Financial Services Royal Commission in Australia.

From 2015 Jacqui was based in Hong Kong as Executive Legal Counsel, International Financial Services, and was responsible for leading the Legal and Governance function for the Commonwealth Bank’s retail and commercial banking, digital banking and life insurance businesses in China, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Vietnam.

Since joining the Commonwealth Bank in 2009 Jacqui has held roles in Legal, as head of the Corporate Advisory and M&A legal team and in Group Strategy as a General Manager.

Prior to joining the Commonwealth Bank, Jacqueline worked at Macquarie Group and started her career at Ashurst (then Blake Dawson Waldron) in the corporate and financial services practice groups.

Benjamin Quinlan - Benjamin Quinlan is the CEO and Managing Partner of Quinlan & Associates. He is also the Chairman of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong, an Adjunct Professor at the AIT School of Management, and a Senior Advisor for a number of leading startups.

Benjamin has an extensive track record advising many of the world’s leading multinational companies, financial services organisations, SMEs and start-ups on a variety of high-profile strategic engagements. He is quoted extensively in the global financial press and is frequently interviewed by leading media outlets, including Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters, and Channel New Asia. He is also a regular keynote speaker at leading financial services industry conferences across the world.

Prior to founding Quinlan & Associates, Benjamin was the Head of Strategy for Deutsche Bank’s Equities business in Asia Pacific and its Investment Bank in Greater China. Before Deutsche, he worked at Oliver Wyman, UBS, and PwC in Hong Kong and Sydney.

Grace Chan - Grace is an experienced regional legal counsel with a proven track record in advising businesses on cross-border commercial contracts and a range of legal issues in the Asia-Pacific region, with a keen interest in data privacy laws and regulations. She is CIPP/E certified and served as a director on the board of ACC Hong Kong from May 2016 to June 2020.

EVENT DETAILS:

Venue: Webinar details will be forwarded upon registration.

Date: Wednesday, 10 March 2021

Time: 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

CPD Points:  Will not apply.

The ACC Hong Kong Board of Directors invites you to the following presentation, hosted by:

In collaboration with EY, this session will focus on the typical fund structures and recent tax developments impacting the funds industry in Hong Kong and Singapore. Hong Kong and Singapore are well known as regional fund management hubs, and they have continued to evolve their regimes and initiatives (in terms of fund structures and tax exemption regimes) to meet the commercial needs of the industry and attract further investment.

The session will address Hong Kong vs Singapore as a fund platform location, including the recent introduction of a new Hong Kong Limited Partnership regime and the reform of the Hong Kong Open-Ended Fund Company regime; as well as the Singapore Variable Capital Company structure; and how they can be used within the fund structure. Further, the session will provide a quick overview of the recently gazetted Inland Revenue (Amendment) (Tax Concessions for Carried Interest) Bill 2021 in Hong Kong.

SPEAKERS:

Vanessa Chan
Partner, Ernst & Young Tax Services Limited, Hong Kong

Vanessa is a Hong Kong based partner in the International Tax Services team within the Asia-Pacific Financial Services Group, focusing on International tax and Hong Kong tax. She has 20 years of tax experience and has extensive in-house tax experience and expertise in regional tax management. She also has deep knowledge and understanding of fund formation and fund structuring from the Hong Kong tax perspective and extensive experience in advising funds and investors on fund formation and fund structuring of investments.

Christy Ngai
Manager, Ernst & Young Tax Services Limited, Hong Kong

Christy is a Hong Kong based manager in the International Tax Services team within the Asia-Pacific Financial Services Group, specializing in providing Hong Kong and international tax advisory services to Private Equity and Real Estate funds.

She has solid experience in advising private equity and real estate funds as regards to the fund and deal structure, tax disclosures in fund documentation and ongoing compliance requirements.

The ACC Hong Kong Board of Directors invites you to the following presentation, hosted by:

Employment Law Trends in Hong Kong and Mainland China - The Impact of COVID-19 and Topical Issues Facing Employers

Join Registered Foreign Lawyer Matthew Durham from boutique dispute resolution law firm Gall to learn more about the many Hong Kong and PRC employment law issues and challenges which have arisen as a result of the global pandemic. From working from home (WFH), to working from abroad, to annual leave log-jams, to redundancies and restructurings, as well as occupational health and safety, this is an opportunity for you to learn more about the key employment law themes that have shaped 2020 and remain relevant for the year ahead.

Matthew will share a presentation on these topics before addressing questions from the audience.

SPEAKER:

Matthew Durham joined Gall’s Employment practice as an England and Wales qualified Registered Foreign Lawyer in January 2021 and is an experienced employment lawyer specialising in employment matters with over 20 years’ experience in Asia. He is known in the market for advising multi-national companies on the full range of employment issues relating to hiring and separating, employment contracts, handbooks and policies, international secondments, transactions and restructurings, labour unions, stock options and incentive schemes, social insurance and welfare schemes, employee fraud, and restrictive covenants.

Matthew also advises employees and individuals on a wide variety of employer-facing issues, including contracts and terms, conduct issues, whistleblowing and separations. He also handles contentious matters such as labour disputes, investigations, director and executive liability, and sexual harassment issues.

Venue: Webinar details will be forwarded upon registration

Date:  Thursday, 25 February 2021

Time: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

CPD Points: CPD points have been applied for.  Please note you need to be logged in for the full duration of the webinar to qualify for CPD points. Unfortunately, points cannot be applied for members who join the webinar via telephone link

The ACC Hong Kong Board of Directors invites you to the following presentation, hosted by:

Service of Hong Kong legal proceedings on overseas defendants

1. Practical / commercial considerations
   • nature of claim
   • value of claim
   • strength of claim
   • identity of defendant
   • location of defendant
   • defendant’s HK legal representation?
   • location of defendant’s assets
   • enforcement of HK Judgments in HK & overseas
2. Court rules
3. Arbitration rules
4. Modern ‘twists’ on traditional service requirements
5. Q&A

SPEAKER:

Kevin Bowers, Partner

Kevin specialises in commercial dispute resolution both in Hong Kong and internationally.

Kevin’s reputation is as a ‘problem solver’ who works hard and fights fearlessly for his clients. Kevin regularly advises both corporate and individual clients who find themselves in crisis and assists them in managing their way through the challenging situations in which they find themselves. Kevin has created a ‘one-stop-shop’ crisis management agency within the firm branded as alinea to help clients navigate their way through and to devise strategies to deal with these situations together with the firm’s public relations / media, forensic accountant and investigation partners.

Venue: Webinar details will be forwarded upon registration

Date:  Wednesday, 3 February 2021

Time: 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

CPD Points: CPD points have been applied for. New York and California Approved Jurisdiction policy may apply.  Please note you need to be logged in for the full duration of the webinar to qualify for CPD points. Unfortunately, points cannot be applied for members who join the webinar via telephone link

This call will be held in Zoom!

Caroline Berube (HJM Asia Law & Co. LLC - China & Singapore) will moderate a discussion between Dominic Wai (ONC Lawyers - Hong Kong), Maggie Tsai (Formosan Brothers - Taiwan), and Matthew Lilly (HHG Legal Group - Australia) regarding their work on the ground dealing with matters of intellectual property and data protection.

The ACC Hong Kong Board of Directors invites you to the following presentation, hosted by King & Wood Mallesons.

This webinar will give an overview of:

• Why are joint ventures enjoying a renaissance
• How to set up a successful joint venture
• Critical issues
• Dealing with joint ventures disputes

SPEAKER:

Mark Schaub specialises in foreign direct investment, M&A and restructuring in China. He has advised on foreign investment projects in all major sectors in China with a cumulative value exceeding USD 20 billion. He is familiar with China issues faced by companies of all sizes and is a trusted advisor to many companies ranging from family owned businesses to Fortune 500 companies.

Mark has been lead counsel for clients in acquisitions, M&A projects, outsourcing, OEM contract manufacturing, technology licensing, compliance, restructuring, joint venture disputes, fraud, distribution, as well as day-to-day corporate advice.

He also has a YouTube channel, China: Art of Law where he discusses commonly encountered business and legal issues in the China market. He is also the author of the following books “China: the Art of Law – Chronicling deals, disasters, greed, stupidity and occasional success in China” (CCH) and “China Strategy – Entry, Operation and Exit” (Wolters Kluwer). He is currently working on “All I Want is Everything” a book on the Chinese consumer.

Mark has been living full time in Shanghai from 1993. He joined King & Wood Mallesons in 2000. He was the first foreign lawyer to join our firm. Prior to this, he worked in the Shanghai offices of well-known German and US law firms. Mark has been consistently awarded Asia Law's “Lawyer of the Year” for corporate work. Since August 2018 Mark has been splitting his time between London and Shanghai.

The ACC Hong Kong Board of Directors invites you to the following presentation, hosted by Clifford Chance.

The speakers will give an overview of the recent SFC enforcement trend, issues concerning whistleblowing and regulatory updates (data storage, etc). The presentation will be particularly relevant for those in-house counsel who work in the financial industry.

SPEAKERS:

Rocky Mui 

Rocky is a partner in the Funds and Investment Management group in Clifford Chance Hong Kong office. He specialises in licensing and regulatory advice, fund establishment, authorisation of funds, PRC investment programs (RQFII/QFII/Stock Connect/Bond Connect/CIBM Direct Access), cross-border mergers & acquisitions and general corporate related work. Recent highlighted deals include advising various clients on cryptocurrency and blockchain projects and ICO advisory works.

Jimmy Chan

Jimmy is a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution group in Clifford Chance Hong Kong office. Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Jimmy spent 14 years with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), where he served as a Director and Head of International and Policy of the Enforcement Division. He has substantial experience in SFC disciplinary proceedings involving financial intermediaries, international cross-border securities investigations and listed company investigations. He is a contributing editor of Sweet & Maxwell’s Securities and Futures Ordinance: Commentary and Annotations.