FREDERICK TAY
Senior Legal Counsel for Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan operations as well as the legal business partner to a global marketing organisation within GSK, Frederick Tay has an oversight over the legal issues arising in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. He also provides legal advice to data driven activities run from the global hub. Apart from this, Frederick also co-heads the global digital roundtable for lawyers and runs the digital and privacy community of practice which is tasked to upskilling the lawyers’ capabilities.
FORAM GALA
Foram Gala, the Co-Founder of F & S LAW CHAMBERS, is a first generation lawyer & has graduated with a B.L.S; LL.B from India’s oldest & most prestigious law school – The Government Law College. Her domain of practice covers a large spectrum from – personal & family laws, that include handling cases of divorce, custody, domestic violence, maintenance and guardianship. She has amassed expertise in drafting before various authorities through regular advisory on civil suits, writ petitions, legal notices, private criminal complaints, criminal revision applications etc. and appears before the High Courts along with trial courts viz., sessions courts, district courts, Family Courts, Debt recovery Tribunal, National Company Law Tribunal, Real Estate Regulation Authority, and other competent authorities. She has successfully completed her training in mediation with the ADR-ODR Inter
FIDA HUSAIN
Fida Husain is a seasoned maritime lawyer and has been the Head of Legal of Qatar Navigation QPSC (Milaha) since 2014. Prior to this role, he was in Singapore and has been part of the shipping industry ever since. He is a critical member of the leadership team of Milaha and has been instrumental in guiding Milaha through various complex projects in both shipping as well as in offshore oil & gas sectors. As a mark of recognition, in 2021, Fida was listed as a top 20 under 40 shipping professional in the Middle East, North Africa and Indian subcontinent region by Seatrade Maritime.
DR. GOPALAKRISHNAN BALAKRISHNA
A dynamic and result oriented legal professional with over 4 decades of experience in legal areas encompassing Banking, Corporate, Capital Market and Business Laws, Cross Border Transaction and Procedures, Human Resource Issues and Employee Grievance Redressal, Litigation and International Arbitration and Mutual Fund Documentation and litigation, Dr. B Gopalakrishnan has been the former founding partner of SK Singhi and Co LLP, Mumbai Office and Partner of SNG & Partners, Mumbai. Apart from this, he is known and admired speaker in many of the National and International Conferences on various subjects as also a Guest Lecturer and a Visiting Faculty for many institutions on Banking Laws, Mergers and Acquisitions, Tax laws in India and more. Dr B Gopalakrishnan has an immense understanding of matters related to Corporate Law, Banking Finance Documentation, Structured Finance, Mergers an
EYSHA MARYSHA
Eysha Marysha is a young lawyer from India. She has offices in Delhi and Chandigarh. Eysha graduated in law and got enrolled in the Bar at New Delhi in 2018. She is currently an LLM in International Commercial and Corporate Law from King’s College London and practising as a lawyer. Eysha has a dynamic practice ranging from litigation to corporate advisory and consultancy. Her practice focuses on servicing high-value corporate and individual clients in effective dispute avoidance and resolution across various subjects such as Intellectual Property Law, Commercial and Corporate Law, Civil Law, Company Law, Arbitration, and Compliance. Eysha is also empanelled with the Delhi State Legal Services Authority wherein she acts and appears for clients who can otherwise not afford legal counsel. She regularly appears for her clients before the Supreme Court of India, various High Courts includ
DUVVA PAVAN KUMAR
Pavan began his career as an associate at the Mumbai office of Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co., before starting DS Associates in 2005. In 2010, Pavan merged DS Associates with Trilegal to lead Trilegal’s Hyderabad office as a Partner. After a 7-year stint with Trilegal, Pavan moved to independent practice and started The Law Chambers in 2018. Pavan has worked with several Indian corporates and promoters in their transactions covering a broad spectrum of issues ranging from corporate compliances, inbound and outbound transactions (both strategic and financial), mergers and joint ventures to private equity and debt funding across various sectors such as Health Care, IT, Media & Entertainment, Pharma, etc. Pavan has also advised on a variety of complex corporate commercial disputes, shareholder disputes, mergers, demergers and amalgamations of companies and regularly advising
DIVYAM AGARWAL
Divyam Agarwal is the founding member of Agarwal Law Chamber in India, which has offices in Delhi and Uttarakhand along with some branch offices in Hyderabad and Mumbai. He has developed a niche for advising on complex issues arising out of multiple jurisdictions and also, and he is regularly appearing as a legal practitioner before a variety of courts, tribunals, and forums. Mr. Agarwal has advised clients on a variety of disputes across industries, including civil and commercial litigation, insolvency, and arbitration. He has represented clients in various domestic and international arbitration matters, including those which are of institutional arbitrations as well.
DIXON SOH
Throughout his years of service, Dixon Soh has practised law as a private practitioner, in-house legal counsel and as a lawyer/IP Strategist in the public sector. Over the years, he has advised numerous entities across many different industries, such as IT, e-commerce, FinTech and media. As such, he is extremely familiar with the challenges experienced by businesses throughout South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. More recently, Dixon has even participated as one of the key contributors of the Singapore IP Strategy 2030 and led a team of IP Strategists to deliver projects that have enabled innovative enterprises to scale and grow using their IP/IA portfolios.
DEVASHISH JAGIRDAR
Devashish Jagirdar is a first generation lawyer from Mumbai. He graduated from Indian Law Society’s Law College, Pune in 2014 and was the Vice President of the Debating Society in 2010. He won the Bill Drafting Competition organised by NMIMS in 2014. He then started his practice with Jayakar & Partners under Solicitor &Senior Managing Partner Mr.Mohan Jayakar. He represented Money Ratna Corporations, Supply Chain Services, Power Sector Companies before various Courts in Civil and Criminal Proceedings. This experience shaped him for a role in Saregama for strategizing Litigation & Infringements where he works currently.
DAVID MARC LEE
David is an Associate Director of the firm. His practice centres around complex commercial disputes and related advisory work, as well as company-related insolvency and restructuring. David’s litigation and advisory experience includes representing companies and high net-worth individuals (before all levels of the Singapore Courts, and in arbitration) in contractual and tortious claims, shareholders’ and construction disputes, employment, banking, insolvency and restructuring matters, and both white and blue-collar crime. Having acted in international arbitrations under various institutional rules (including ICC, SIAC, and LCIA), David has amassed a wealth of experience in navigating complex legal issues while providing practical, fuss-free advice and representation to his clients.
