SCCA Asia Pacific Legal Congress 2025

Morrison Foerster is pleased to sponsor the SCCA Asia Pacific (APAC) Legal Congress 2025, the premier corporate in-house legal counsel event in the APAC region. This event will be held at the One Farrer Hotel in Singapore, and it is expected to attract over 1,000 delegates from across the region and beyond.

The congress will provide valuable insights into the latest trends and challenges for in-house counsel, serving as a platform for dialogue, networking, and the sharing of best practices driven by a forward-thinking legal function.

For more information about the event or if you would like to attend, please reach out to the Singapore Marketing Team at SGMarketing@mofo.com.

Building an Effective Global IP Strategy – Mitigating Risks to your IP Portfolio and Managing IP Disputes

April 4, 2025, 09:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

In today’s global economy, intellectual property remains a cornerstone of competitive advantage. Developing an effective IP strategy is essential to safeguarding innovation, driving business growth, and maintaining a competitive edge.  This panel will focus on portfolio risk assessment, licensing, and litigation strategies, and share best practices on building an effective global IP strategy – both for multinational companies seeking to protect and defend their IP portfolios in APAC, and for APAC companies seeking to scale up their IP portfolios. Join us to gain insight on proactive risk management of IP assets and be equipped with practical knowledge to develop and implement a cross-jurisdictional IP strategy.

Speakers

Zhikang Fu – Director, Senior IP Strategy Solutions, IPOS International

Gigi Yuen – Of Counsel, Technology Transactions, Morrison Foerster, Hong Kong

Yi-Jun Kang – Associate, International Arbitration, Morrison Foerster, Singapore

Lingeng Zhuang – Associate, Dispute Resolution, Morrison Foerster, Singapore

James Collison – Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property, Mastercard

Navigating the New Reality: Providing Perspective for Businesses in APAC in the Era of Evolving Trade Controls

April 4, 2025, 11:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.

In today’s fragmented world, governments globally are increasingly leveraging sanctions and export controls as foreign policy tools. Companies across industries are grappling with the repercussions of the shifting geopolitical landscape that present legal, compliance, and reputational challenges.  This panel will focus on emerging regulatory and enforcement trends in sanctions and export controls from the U.S. and beyond, compliance challenges unique to businesses in APAC, and how companies in the region may prepare and adopt strategies to deal with evolving trade controls.

Speakers

Charmaine Chan-Richard – Assistant General Counsel, Singtel

David A. Newman – Co-chair of the National Security and Crisis Management practices, Morrison Foerster, Washington, D.C.

B. Chen Zhu – Head of Sanctions and Export Controls Practice for Asia, Morrison Foerster, Hong Kong

Rishikeesh Wijaya –  Associate, Investigations + White Collar Defense, Morrison Foerster, Singapore

Beyond the War Room: Turning Strategic Response into your Strategic Advantage

April 4, 2025, 12:00 p.m. – 12:50 p.m.

Threats to businesses take various forms, often at the intersection of legal, reputational, and governmental risks. In-house legal teams are expected to manage, if not lead, strategic responses to these threats to ensure alignment with business objectives, while coordinating with multiple internal and external stakeholders. In APAC, a multidisciplinary approach in your strategic response considering unique business, regulatory, and cultural nuances in each jurisdiction is essential.

This panel will walk through a scenario-based discussion with real-life examples to discuss how in-house counsel may appropriately identify and analyze relevant risks, develop and adopt strategies to respond to these risks, and prepare their businesses for potential threats in the future.

Speakers

Mathew Orr – Director of Investigations, Asia Pacific & Japan, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Daniel Levison – Head of Litigation, Singapore and the firm’s Ethics and Compliance regional practice in Asia, Morrison Foerster, Singapore

Saqib Alam – Partner, Crisis Management, Morrison Foerster, London

Anish Hazra – Associate, Litigation, Morrison Foerster, Singapore