Event Overview

What does a successful legal career look like in 2025? Join us as we hear honest insights from legal practitioners about how they navigate today's legal landscape.

Our panel brings together lawyers who have carved out distinctive paths – both within and beyond traditional practice. They will discuss real challenges, practical decisions, and the opportunities and learning lessons they have encountered along the way.

Key topics include:

  • Career progression and transitions
  • Overcoming significant setbacks / challenges at work
  • Emerging roles in the evolving legal sector
  • Building genuine professional relationships in your network
  • Managing career progression alongside personal priorities 

Whether you're considering your next step or exploring new directions, this discussion offers practical perspectives from those who've been there. Join us for an evening of honest conversation about where the legal profession is heading and how to position yourself for what's next.

Thanks to the generosity of our sponsor, this event is tuition-free and includes light refreshments.

Please register in advance here to help us have an accurate headcount.

Date: Thursday, 20 February 2025

Time: 18:00 – 20:00 GMT+8

Location: Braddell Brothers LLP (11 Beach Road #04-01 Singapore 189675)

Schedule

18:00 Registration opens
18:30 Start of session. Opening Introduction.
18:40 Plenary discussion with the panel
19:30 Networking segment for all attendees
 

Panelists
 

Speaker: Sebastian Blasius, AIJA Representative for Singapore (Registered Foreign Lawyer, Gateway Law Corporation)

Sebastian Blasius is a Foreign Lawyer at Gateway Law Corporation. He is among the select few German lawyers registered to practise not only foreign law, but also Singapore law.

Throughout his career, Sebastian has advised organizations of all sizes and stages of development: from newly founded start-ups to established businesses, and from sole proprietorships to global corporations. He provides comprehensive counsel on all key areas of business law, particularly in corporate, employment, immigration, and general contract law.

 Sebastian also focusses on data protection law and is accredited by the International Association of Privacy Professionals as a “Certified Information Privacy Professional” for both Asia and Europe.

 

 

 

Speaker: Choon Min Koh (Lead Counsel, Asia Pacific, Subway Systems Singapore Pte Ltd)

Choon Min Koh began her career in dispute resolution at Drew & Napier before moving in-house to foodpanda APAC where she looked after legal commercial operational matters. She then joined fintech company Nium, and now serves as Lead Counsel, Asia Pacific at Subway. Her in-house experience spans tech, fintech, and QSR industries

 

Speaker: Jonathan Muk (Associate Director, LVM Law Chambers LLC)

Jonathan Muk is an Associate Director with LVM Law Chambers LLC. He is a disputes practitioner with a focus on commercial disputes, in particular those with elements of fraud and investigations. He has appeared as lead counsel in the Singapore courts and before tribunals. He is also a specialist mediator with the Singapore International Mediation Centre and is regularly appointed to mediate cases.

Jonathan is passionate about creating an ecosystem where all legal practitioners can thrive. As part of his contributions back to the profession, Jonathan is part of the Mentorship and Alternative Dispute Resolution Committees of the Law Society of Singapore. He was part of the team that established the Law Society-FIDREC Neutral Evaluation Scheme where younger lawyers serve as neutral evaluators for the Financial Industry Dispute Resolution Centre.

 

 

 

Speaker: Kyle Lee (Partner, WongPartnership LLP)

Kyle Lee is the Co-Head of the WPGrow: Start-Up / Venture Capital Practice and a Partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions, and FinTech Practices at WongPartnership.

His main areas of practice encompass venture capital and start-up matters, local and international mergers and acquisitions, fintech, and general corporate and commercial transactions.

Kyle is also an active member of the core working group for the development of the Venture Capital Investment Model Agreements (VIMA) initiative and is recognised in leading legal publications including Chambers, Legal 500 and IFLR1000.

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Moderator: Angelia Thng (Partner, Braddell Brothers LLP)

Angelia Thng is a Partner at Braddell Brothers LLP, Singapore’s second-oldest independent law practice founded in 1883. She specialises in dispute resolution and heads the Employment & Labour law practice in the firm. Angelia is well-versed in navigating complex disputes, and is often commended by clients for providing strategic, practical and effective solutions.

Angelia places strong emphasis on building and promoting the community of younger practitioners and women in arbitration. She serves as the Asia Co-Chair of the Young Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) Asia and an Executive Committee member of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC)’s Women In Arbitration (WIA)

 
 
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Scholarships

If you are a lawyer under 35 years old and meet the requirements, apply to our Scholarship Programme for this event. You can check more details here.

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