The Macallan ALB Hong Kong Law Awards 2016

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Welcome to The Macallan ALB Hong Kong Law Awards 2016!

Date: Friday, September 9, 2016

Time: 6:30 pm sharp, cocktail

Venue: Conrad Hong Kong – Grand Ballroom

Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Admiralty, Hong Kong

Asian Legal Business is proud to present The Macallan ALB Hong Kong Law Awards 2016, an annual celebration of legal excellence in Hong Kong in its 15th year. These prestigious awards will pay tribute to the outstanding performance of private practitioners and in-house teams from Hong Kong and the region.

Come join us and leaders from legal and business communities at the Conrad Hong Kong on September 9th. This black-tie banquet will be a night filled with celebration and distinguished entertainment.

We invite you to celebrate legal excellence with us! The Hong Kong Law Awards offers the best platform for showcasing your firm or team's top work from the past year... don't miss it!

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For inquries, please contact Yvonne Lau at yvonne.lau@thomsonreuters.com or +852 2843 6547 or

Caryl Aquino at mary.aquino@thomsonreuters.com or +632 982 5938.

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GUEST OF HONOR

Winnie Tam, SC

Chairman, Hong Kong Bar Association

Winnie has been serving as the Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association since elected in January 2015. She is a barrister-at-law and a Senior Counsel in private practice in Des Voeux Chambers, Hong Kong. Her practice is in the civil and commercial field with an emphasis in intellectual property. She was appointed Senior Counsel of the Bar by the Chief Justice of Hong Kong SAR in 2006. Over the years, she has accumulated extensive experience in civil litigation and dispute resolution, and has argued many notable cases on diverse topics in intellectual property, commercial injunctions, and issues on intellectual property arbitration. Her practise in international arbitration now covers both intellectual property and other civil disputes.

Winnie is also a barrister admitted to practice in England and Wales, a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators, and an accredited mediator. She is a frequent speaker on intellectual property and commercial litigation and dispute resolution both in Hong Kong and China. She is also an adjunct professor of the Eastern China University of Political Science and Law (华东政法大学), the Law School of the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (上海財經大学) and a specialist panel arbitrator of the South China Institute of Arbitration and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre.

Winnie had served as a Deputy High Court Judge from 2011, and has since 2015 been appointed Recorder of the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong. In those capacities she has presided over hearings conducted both in Chinese and English on civil matters of a diverse nature. Her current positions in public service include memberships in the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission, the ICAC Advisory Committee On Corruption, the Hong Kong Tourism Board, and the Council and Court of the Hong Kong Baptist University.