Russell Bennett to speak at Asia HR Employment Law Forum 2018 in Singapore

We are delighted to announce that Employment Partner Russell Bennett will be speaking at the upcoming Asia HR Employment Law Forum, which will be held from 9 to 10 May at the Mandarin Orchard Hotel Singapore.

This year’s theme is “Benchmarking HR Standards & Compliance: Your 360° Guide to Employment Best Practices across Asia”.  Russell will be speaking on the panel “Regional Updates & Insights across Asian Jurisdictions” alongside Singapore’s Vernan Voon (Partner, RHTLaw Taylor Wessing LLP) and Malaysia’s Melinda […]

By | May 7th, 2018 ||

What founders need to know about Employee Share Option Plans

ESOPs can be a case of damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Founders need an ESOP to build out and retain its team as the business grows. But dilution will often only affect the founders. That can feel like a turkey voting for Christmas. Ultimately, it is just another case of the classic founder balancing act. A smaller piece of the pie can be fine, so long as the size of the […]

By | May 3rd, 2018 ||

Kim Boreham and Rowan Varty speak at HKIHRM Seminar

Partner Kim Boreham and Solicitor Rowan Varty, both from our Band 1 Employmentpractice, were invited on 28 March by the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management to host a seminar on restrictive covenants.

Close to 50 human resources professionals filled the room to hear Kim and Rowan speak about non-compete covenants, non-solicitation of clients covenants, non-dealing with clients covenants, non-solicitation/poaching of employees, and much more. The enforceability of these covenants was also discussed in the talk, along with […]

By | April 4th, 2018 ||