Organised by the Real Estate and Insolvency Commissions
Session #8
Wednesday, 24 August
11:45 – 13:00 SGT
How are our industries changing the way they work due to digitalisation?
How can we as young lawyers build on that to provide more modern legal advice? (change of work practices, new opportunities, etc)
Mbula is the founder and Principal Attorney at MN Legal. She holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) in Public International Law, a post graduate diploma in law from Kenya School of Law and an LL. B from the University of Nairobi and member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb), London. She is a seasoned commercial lawyer and practitioner in international commercial arbitration. Her passion lies in Data Protection and Privacy Law, Cyber Security, Intellectual Property Law and International Business Law.
Emma Niemistö specialises in construction and real estate matters.
Her practice is particularly focused on demanding construction and project law assignments. She has broad experience in negotiating and drafting complex project agreements, providing risk management advice during construction and dispute resolution.
Emma has advised clients on major infrastructure, property development and industrial construction endeavours, on construction management and alliance contracting, and on prominent Finnish public private partnerships (PPP). She regularly represents key players in the construction industry in disputes both in litigation and arbitration proceedings.
In addition to her law degree, Emma has earned a Master of Science degree in Construction Economics and Management from the Helsinki University of Technology. She has authored books on construction management contracting and contractors’ guarantee liabilities, and is a sought-after lecturer on topics related to construction law and dispute management.
Emma heads the firm’s Real Estate and Construction practice group.
Minglei is an Associate in the Business Restructuring Department at McDonald Hopkins. Combining 10 years as a Chinese transaction lawyer with extensive experience in international business transactions and working in three Jurisdictions, Minglei is a creative problem solver who guides her clients through complex bankruptcy and insolvency issues. Her practice also includes working with companies across the globe in a variety of industries pursuing international business transactions, outbound investments, licensing, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital financing, and general corporate and commercial matters.
Prior to joining McDonald Hopkins, Minglei served as an advisor and legal asset to corporations working through international business transactions. She was the Founder and Director of MingleiLegal LLC, a legal consulting company serving U.S. and European law firms, where she bridged cultural gaps and worked to secure partnerships between U.S. organizations and Chinese law firms and provided supervision for on-the- ground teams engaged in cross-border transaction due diligence, business establishement , and investment disputes. Before founding her own company, Minglei worked in director’s positions for two Chinese law firms, establishing overseas offices, providing legal consulting services to U.S. clients pursuing commercial transactions in China, managing inbound transactions and joint ventures, developing international prospect review processes, advising Chinese investors in U.S. transactions, and collaborating with international law firms as part of global teams. Minglei also has experience serving as in-house legal counsel to a large global branding agency in Australia.
Minglei earned her JD from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. She earned a BA in English from Beijing Foreign Studies University and a double BA in International Economic Law from Fudan University. She is native in Mandarin Chinese and fluent in English.
Debby Lim is a partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice group.
She has a broad commercial practice with overlapping strengths in banking and finance disputes, insolvency and restructuring, domestic and international arbitrations. She has also acted in construction and property-related disputes, shareholder disputes. She focuses on all areas of contentious insolvency, asset recovery work (including major commercial disputes), fraud and investigations. These often involve complex and multifaceted litigation in the aftermath of cross-border corporate collapses. Debby has represented debtors, creditors and officeholders in myriad insolvency-related litigation, including contested scheme of arrangement applications, creditor disputes, security enforcement and antecedent transactions.
She has acted in some of the most prominent and complex cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters in the Asia Pacific region.
