GALLANT ATTENDED THE MERITAS 2019 ASIA REGIONAL MEETING

November 2019

Mr Philip Wong, our Partner and Head of Commercial Department attended the Meritas Asia Regional Meeting 2019 for and on behalf of our firm in Manila, Philippines from 14 November 2019 to 16 November 2019.

During the meeting, Ms Jill Wiley, Chairlady of Meritas and representatives from 16 Meritas member firms from and outside of Asia, including Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, Australia, Canada, Germany and the United States gathered together and exchanged their views on matters of interest to them, ranging from M&A trends and opportunities to personal data protection & privacy and from leadership to business development and marketing in law firm management. Representatives of member firms were able to engage in fruitful discussions at the meeting, which strengthened the relationship among different member firms.

Informative seminars were delivered by various guest speakers during the meeting. In particular, Mr Arsenio Balisacan, Chairman of the Philippine Competition Commission, was the keynote speaker for “The Impact of Anti-Trust & Competition Law on Doing Business in Asia”. For another practical seminar, Mr Leandro Angelo Aguirre, Privacy Commissioner of the National Privacy Commission in the Philippines, was the keynote speaker for “Data Protection & Privacy and its Effects on Business Worldwide”.

Our firm joined Meritas in 2005 and is the only Meritas member firm in Hong Kong. As a premier global legal network, Meritas currently has more than 7,500 lawyers in 190 member firms located in 97 countries to provide legal services. Meritas has also been recently ranked by Chambers Global 2019 as an Elite Law Firm Network. For more information about Meritas, please see: http://www.meritas.org.

Mr Rick Goldberg from Melbourne, Australia (second from the left), our Mr Philip Wong (third from the left), Ms Jill Wiley, Chairlady of Meritas (middle), Mr Arsenio Balisacan, Chairman of the Philippine Competition Commission (third from the right), Mr Emerico De Guzman from Manila, Philippines (second from the right) and Mr James Perkins from San Diego, USA (first from the right).

Mrs Elaine Harwell from San Diego, USA (second from the left), Mr Anton Ostler from Munich, Germany (third from the left), Mr Leandro Angelo Aguirre, Privacy Commissioner (middle), Mr Jeffrey Lim from Singapore (third from the right), Mr Yao Rao from Shanghai, the PRC (second from the right) and Mr Chakrapani Misra from Mumbai, India (first from the right).