Membership Benefits
Contact David Laverty or Suresh Divyanathan if you have any questions regarding membership!
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Membership Committee Chair David A. Laverty International Counsel 200 South Wacker Drive, Suite 3000 Chicago, IL 60606, USA Tel. 1-312-575-0601 Fax 1-312-575-0602 E-Mail: laverty@internationalcounsel.com |
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Membership Committee Vice-Chair Suresh Divyanathan Drew & Napier LLC 20 Raffles Place #17-00 Ocean Towers Singapore 048620 Tel. 65-6535-0733/6532-7149 Fax 65-6532-7149 E-mail: sureshd@drewnapier.com |
If you are not already a member, we welcome your membership in the IPBA. We are sure you will find many advantages from joining the association. Here are some examples of great benefits we offer.
1. Membership is a Way to Demonstrate Your Interest in Asia-Pacific Legal Affairs.
IPBA members are either Asia-Pacific residents or attorneys who have a strong interest in the region. Since its 1991 founding in Tokyo, the IPBA has grown to become the pre-eminent bar association for Asia business and commercial law issues. Many of the leading business lawyers with an interest in the region are members. Your IPBA membership signals to your contacts and clients that the Asia-Pacific is an important part of your interest and practice, or that your in-house role includes work with the region. You will also appear in the annual IPBA directory of members, an important reference source for potential referrals among IPBA members.
Recognizing the importance of the role of corporate counsel in Asia-Pacific legal affairs, and in light of company budgetary constraints, the IPBA has instituted new policies to further encourage corporate counsel participation. Apart from reduced conference rates noted below, we have lowered the corporate counsel membership rate to US$100, or JPY11,800.
2. We Are a Collegial Group That Will Help You Get Involved.
We pride ourselves on being a collegial and accessible group. Our officers and council members are making an extra effort to help you get involved in the IPBA, such as if you wish to be and will considered for leadership roles within our well-developed committee structure if this is your objective. We will put you in contact with one of our leadership “mentors” to help speed the process of getting involved. Please seek us out at any time at David Laverty (laverty@internationalcounsel.com) and Suresh Divyanathan (sureshd@drewnapier.com), our Membership Committee leadership.
Corporate Counsel with questions about the new corporate counsel policies may contact David Laverty as above or David Kreider (david.kreider@vodafone.com), Chair of the Corporate Counsel Committee, or Mitsuru Claire Chino (chino-m@itochu.co.jp), former Co-Chair of our Corporate Counsel Committee.
3. You Can Publish in the IPBA Journal.
As a member, you may submit publish substantive papers into the IPBA Journal, a professional publication issued quarterly in partnership with Lexis-Nexis. Please contact Hideki Kojima (kojima@kojimalaw.jp) and Caroline Berube (cberube@hjmasialaw.com), our Publications Committee leadership if you interested in contributing an article.
4. Enjoy the Membership Pricing at Upcoming Conferences and Be Considered for Speaking Opportunities.
Apart from our regional conferences and an annual Asia M&A conference, the IPBA hosts an annual flagship conference. We will next meet in Kyoto/Osaka in 2011 and look forward to seeing you there. You can learn more about our committee activities and contact details of the leadership of each committee on the Committee pages of this web site. Please contact our Committee Coordinator, Urs Lustenberger (urs.lustenberger@lgpartner.ch), or our Deputy Committee Coordinator, Ada Ko (koa@lanepowell.com), for general questions about IPBA committees.
As part of our new policies to further encourage corporate counsel paricipation, our annual conference fees for conferences beginning in Kyoto/Osaka in 2011 wil be reduced for corporate counsel that is substantially lower than the regular attendance rates. Where possible, other IPBA events will also include a preferential corporate counsel rate.
5. Future Events.
Please refer to the calendar of www.ipba.org to learn about our future programs, and e-mail updates are periodically sent to IPBA members on the details of upcoming programs. If you are interested in being involved in organizing local seminar or regional conference, please contact our Program Coordinator Kevin Qian (kqian@mwechinalaw.com), or our Deputy Program Coordinator, Christopher To (christopherto@hkcic.org). You may also contact the IPBA Jurisdictional Council Member for your jurisdiction to get involved with the planning and hosting of local activities.
This is a time of great promise for the IPBA, and our low membership rates continue to be an outstanding bargain. The recent Singapore Conference was one of the outstanding events in the IPBA's 20-year history and was the largest event we have held, despite the lingering challenges of the global recession for many participants., 7 North American cities hosted IPBA seminars and other events in 2010, Amsterdam and other cities have also hosted events in advance of the Singapore Conference, and the Hong Kong Asia M&A Conference is attracting wide publicity.
Hope to see you in Kyoto/Osaka and at other IPBA events! Please register to become a member now, and please advise corporate counsel of our efforts to welcome their participation!