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Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP launched R&T Asia Resources, a new initiative that involves the placement of personnel in clients to fulfill secondment requests as well as other part-time in-house legal positions. It aims to help clients that need in-house counsel on short-term contacts on an ad hoc basis. The personnel to be deployed to the clients will be selected from R&T Asia Resources' own panel of consultants, which, currently, has 15 lawyers.
R&T Asia Resource's launch was in response to client's need to control legal cost, and is based on a growing trend amongst Singaporeans working part-time. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rajah & Tann Singapore and is overseen by two directors, Ryan Loh and Wilma Cheng from the firm's Restructuring and Insolvency Practice.
Rajah & Tann Singapore is one of the first Asian firms to offer insourcing services, patterned after those used in other developed jurisdictions such as the UK.
To view our Press Release on this, click here.
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The Private Clients Practice of Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP hosted a client evening session on Succession Planning on 20 August 2015. Vikna Rajah from the Private Clients Practice gave a presentation on succession planning, focusing on the importance of estate planning and the interplay between wills and trusts.
This was followed by a suit fitting by an Ermenegildo Zegna Master Stylist from Italy, and fine champagne and fine wine tasting with Sarment.
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The Japan Desk of the firm organised two client seminars for its existing clients and potential clients. On 30 July 2015, K. Muralidharan Pillai and Sim Wei Na from the Commercial Litigation Practice, and Shuhei Otsuka from the Japan Desk gave a talk on "Corporate Investigations and the Options that a Company can Take Against Employee Misconduct" discussing considerations for internal investigations and the relevant provisions of the Employment Act when dealing with employee misconduct. There was a repeat seminar on 31 July 2015.
In the session on "Ship Arrest and its Implications to Japanese Companies" on 28 August 2015, Philip Tay from the Shipping & International Trade Practice and Shuhei Otsuka from the Japan Desk talked about the procedures of ship arrest in Singapore and its implications to the Japanese companies. They also had a discussion on what companies should do in case of ship arrest, and what needs to be done to prepare for ship arrest.
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Lawyers of Rajah & Tann Asia participated at the following seminars:
- Data Privacy: Your Business Imperative, 25-27 August 2015
Sessions:
- ASEAN-EU Business Summit, Kuala Lumpur, 23 August
Panel Discussion:
- Increasing Competitiveness – Removing Trade and Investment Restrictions and Boosting Trade (Panellist: Chester Toh)
- Charity Governance Conference 2015: "Taking Ownership Through Governance", 17 August 2015
Panel Discussion:
- Panel discussion on what corporate donors and grantmakers look for in a charity before supporting its cause (Panellist: Chandra Mohan Retnam, BBM, PBM)
- Transfer Pricing Summit Asia, 4 August 2015 (0ne of the speakers: Liu Hern Kuan)
- Market Crash: Opportunity or Disaster?, 30 July 2015
Session:
- Important Tax Issues that High Net Worth Individuals Need to be Aware of (Speaker: Liu Hern Kuan)
- Introduction to International Arbitration, Ho Chi Minh City, 31 – 1 August 2015
Session:
- Singapore International Mediation Workshop, 24 July 2015 (Facilitator: Hazel Tang)
- 25 Year Thai Arbitration Institute: Arbitration Development and Adaptation Channel to Support the Change, Bangkok, 24 July 2015 (Speaker: Surasak Vajasit)
- 3rd International Business Fellowship Executive Programme Myanmar, Yangon, 5 - 10 July 2015
Session:
- Optimising Your Myanmar Investment Strategy (Speaker: Kalyn Liang)
- SIATP Seminar: To Pursue or not to Pursue? Considerations from Crossroads of Tax Disputes, 10 July 2015 (Speaker: Liu Hern Kuan)
- Medico-Legal Conference 2015: Raising the Bar in the Healthcare System, 8-9 July 2015
Session:
- Amendments to the Companies Act and their Impact on Japanese Companies, 2 July 2015 (Speakers: Miyoko Ueno, Shuhei Otsuka, Megumi Arima)
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