Mr. Jingbo Lu is a renowned expert and a pioneer in labor & employment law in China. With over 20 years of practice, Mr. Lu acted as a perennial legal consultant for hundreds of public and private companies and has provided labor law trainings for thousands of enterprises. Mr. Lu established www.laodongfa.com in 2002, the first online platform for labor law services in China, and the magazine HR Legal. Mr. Lu has also provided professional opinions during legislative consultation for the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
Lia Alizia is a Partner in the Corporate, Commercial and Litigation & Dispute Resolutions departments of M&T. major areas of expertise include anti-bribery, anti-corruption, property, Indonesian employment and IPR-related issues. She has handled employment-related matters, mass terminations of employment in various industries, the resolution of disputes, the enforcement of IPR and major land acquisitions for infrastructure project such as the Tanjung Jati B Power Plant Project. Lia has authored a number of significant publications and often speaks at local and overseas seminars and training programs on employment matters.
Steven Chen is a member of Taiwan Bar Association and the partner of Liu & Partners Attorneys-at-Law. He specializes in the field of labor law. He has worked extensively in matters involving labor disputes and negotiations for Taiwan enterprises and foreign enterprises in Taiwan, including drafting labor contracts and work rules, dealing with general labor issues and participating in mass dismissal cases.
He has a lot of practical experience in the field of labor disputes. In addition, he also assists high-level staff and foreign nationals in Taiwan to deal with labor litigations and mediations, particularly in disputes of pension and severance pay.
Atul is a Partner in Trilegal’s Employment and Corporate law practice and has over a decade’s experience in advising clients on complex employment law and general corporate issues. He has multi-sectoral experience and specialised knowledge of India’s vast labour and employment laws.
Atul regularly conducts training sessions for clients and has authored several articles for publications by the World Bank, IBLJ, IFCCI, IBA, etc. Atul has been consistently recognized as a leading employment lawyer by Chambers Asia Pacific since 2014. He has also been elected as a member of CII’s National Committee on IR and IFCCI’s HR Committee.
Aaron Halegua (何宜伦) is a research fellow at the New York University School of Law and a practicing labor and employment lawyer in the United States, representing clients in litigation as well as counseling employers on legal compliance. In his international work, Aaron has consulted for companies such as Apple and inter-governmental institutions like the International Labor Organization. Aaron received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and spent one year clerking for a federal judge in New York City. He lived in China for several years and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Joydeep is a Graduate of Harvard Business School’s Owner-President Management Program and one of Australia’s most high-profile lawyers and legal entrepreneurs.
Joydeep holds a Master of Laws and an Honours degree in Law from the University of Sydney. Joydeep has been ranked as a leading lawyer in Chambers every year since 2010, in Doyle’s Guide to the Legal Profession and was recognized as Australia’s “Workplace relations Lawyer of the Year” in 2016 by Corporate LiveWire’s Legal Awards. He has in 2017 been listed as one of Australia’s top lawyers in “Who’s Who Legal: Australia” and one of the world’s leading labour lawyers in “Who’s Who Legal: Labour & Employment”.
Yong Jae JUNG is a Korean-licensed attorney and member of Bae, Kim & Lee LLC’s Employment & Labor Practice Group. Yong Jae advised major domestic and foreign companies on various issues related to employment and labor. Before joining Bae, Kim & Lee LLC, he served as a public-service judge advocate in the Ministry of Justice of Korea. Yong Jae received his legal education at Korea University (LL.B.) and the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea. He speaks native Korean and fluent English.
Michael Lee is a Partner at Di Linh Legal Company Limited (“Dilinh”) with over a decade of experience in Vietnam. Prior to Dilinh, Michael worked at the Vietnam offices of Tilleke & Gibbins and Mayer Brown JSM. Michael has extensive experience on a wide range of corporate matters, including real estate, M&A, life science, technology, anticorruption, and labor. For the last several years, Michael has been identified as a leading lawyer in Vietnam in the areas of Corporate and M&A by both Chambers Asia Pacific and The Legal 500.
Ian heads the Employment & Labor team at TSMP. His practice covers advisory, transactional and contentious employment work, with a focus on non-competition, dismissal, data privacy, M&A employee transfers and industrial relations issues. Ian is the lead author for the Singapore chapters of “The Employment Law Review” and “Getting the Deal Through – Labor & Employment”, as well as the Employment chapter of ‘Law Relating to Specific Contracts in Singapore’.
Ian serves as Chairman of the Law Society Civil Practice Committee, and is a Referee of the State Courts Small Claims Tribunals and a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.
Michihiro Mori is a Partner at Nishimura & Asahi, Japan’s largest law firm. He heads the firm's labor/employment law practice group. He received an LL.B. from The University of Tokyo and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. Before joining Nishimura & Asahi, Mr. Mori served as a judge for ten years, including two-year service in the Special Labor Division of a district court .
He has been continuously honored as a leading lawyer in labor/employment law by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Who's Who Legal, Chambers Asia-Pacific, Asialaw Leading Lawyers, PLC Which Lawyer, and Asialaw Profiles.