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Debevoise & Plimpton: Focus on SFC and U.S. SEC Enforcement Priorities
Herbert Smith Freehills is updating its agile working policy with an expectation that its people will work in the office for an average of 60 percent of their working time.
The firm say the 60 percent benchmark can be adjusted to suit each individual, team and situation. It will apply to partners, lawyers and business services roles, including PAs. The policy will only apply once an office is physically open and operational, and physical distancing rules have been greatly relaxed or removed.
Justin D’Agostino
“Despite the pressure and worries of the pandemic, we know that many of our people have greatly valued the flexibility of how, where and when we work, gaining more time for their families, health and other commitments,” said CEO Justin D’Agostino.
“We also recognise that the office will remain an important place for connection, collaboration and learning, with clients and with each other.”
“By setting this benchmark for post-pandemic operations, we hope to give our people the flexibility to design a working pattern that suits them, their colleagues and our clients, and to offer some certainty in uncertain times.”
According to the firm, the policy is backed up with stringent information security, health and safety assessments for home working, and resources for wellbeing.
“We cannot predict with absolute certainty what the workplace will look like six months or even a year from now,” said D’Agostino. “However, this new policy gives every part of our firm the freedom to start imagining and designing new ways of working as those workplace practices evolve.”
It is likely other international firms will make similar announcements over the coming months.
Praxonomy has partnered with the In-House Community to offer our members a very special offer.
Praxonomy is an easy-to-use board portal that manages the full lifecycle of board and committee meetings. Praxonomy enables boards to operate more efficiently while saving time and money.
Special offer for In-House Community Jade members:
6 months free subscription, with 40% discount on subsequent (first year) annual subscription
Special offer for In-House Community Standard members:
30-day free trial, with a 30% discount on first year subscription
Promotion validity: Application before September 2020
Recently, Richard Levick spoke to Jay Shaw, founder and Chairman at Praxonomy about digital transform and some of the best practices for boards in the age of virtual board meetings. To listen to this episode of The Weekly click here
Charles Keller MD, Scientific Director, cc-TDI.org
Raise money for Children’s Cancer Therapy Development Institute (cc-tdi.org)
“Childhood cancer is a global health issue touching the lives of at least 300,000 children each year according to WHO estimates, but likely as many as 400,000 children with a quarter of these children going undiagnosed in developing countries. Even for children in nations with state of the art care, 1 in 5 children will not survive. Pharmaceutical companies and their internal champions now more than ever are reaching past the new regulatory requires to test adult cancer drugs for effectiveness in children; however, while US FDA approvals for adult cancer number on average 12 or more each year – for children, effective drugs for pediatric cancer have only been approved 8 times in the last 42 years.
See auction and giveaways below.
The 2019 fundraising support of In-House Community and their clients super-charged childhood cancer research at the Children’s Cancer Therapy Development Institute (cc-tdi.org), and this year promises to make an even bigger impact. Highlights of supported work at cc-TDI this past year includes a machine learning project to help improve the diagnosis of children with cancer in developing countries, and developed ones. This project was piloted with the Intel spinout OmicsAutomation.com, and complemented by design of a pocket microscope slide scanner by a capstone engineering team at the University of Idaho. The project is hoped to move to the IBM World Community Grid Smash Childhood Cancer Project, led by Dr. Godfrey Chan (Hong Kong University), and for which cc-TDI is a major participant. This project is a key example of how it takes a community to address a question that may not have a profit margin, but has priceless impact for children and affected families. In-House Community leads the way.”
Attendees who wish to participate in our Best Dressed competition can share their photo’s with Charles via WhatsApp (number to be announced before the ceremony). The winner will receive the following:
Scientist for a Day Virtual Experience: a personal lab tour by Stella’s dad, Andy Woods and a cc-TDI labcoat, embroidered with their name (any size).
Personalised Labcoat by cc-TDI
Giveaways!
We’re also giving away some prizes to lucky attendees. The prizes will be drawn at random and only the attendees who are live will be able to win!
Two Bespoke Hand-Tailored Shirts by Ash Samtani (Fabric: Double-ply 100% Sea-Island Cotton, Total value: HK$2,500.00).
Personalised handmade doll made to the likeness of anyone chosen by the winner. By CC-TDI.
Hamper of Australian bush tucker products. By CC-TDI.
A selection of rare gourmet items created from Australian native outback plants for use by the culinary adventurous. (Donated by Braver Stronger Smarter Inc. Value – US$80)
3 Hand-Made Necklaces by Calleigh Germer from Cuties for a Cure.
Hope necklace is from Calleigh’s ‘With Love’ collection and comes with a silver coil chain it’s valued at US$15.
‘Love is Everywhere’ necklace (one peice) is in honor Calleigh’s dear friend Holly Bruno who passed away from Rhabdomyosarcoma in March of 2018. It comes with a silver link chain and is valued at US$10
The purple statement necklace comes with a black cord and is valued at $US8.
Personalised showing of KS-SZE’s private jewelry collection in Hong Kong.
Entertain your party at a showing of beautiful private jewelry collection at the KS-SZE’s shop at Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong. Worth HK$ 1,500.
The In-House Community Counsels of the Year Awards is an important event in the In-House Community calendar. It provides an opportunity to both benchmark and celebrate innovation and excellence across a range of areas in both in-house and external legal services.
At a time when it is clearly not possible to physically bring together in one room the leading legal counsel from across the New Silk Road, we’re excited to host our first ever:
In-House Community Counsels of the Year e-Ceremony
–LIVE online!
Date: 28 May 2020 (Thursday) Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Hong Kong, China Time
Award contenders and their supporters will be able to login and join us from the comfort of their desks, at home, in the office or wherever they are, to hear the winners announced and raise a glass in their honour.
As well as providing an opportunity to recognise our winning legal teams, the e-Celebration will help raise money for our worthy chosen charity, CC-TDI (Children’s Cancer Therapy Development Institute)*, which we are supporting for the second year running.
Awards to be announced during the e-Ceremony include the:
– In-House Best Practice Teams of the Year
– In-House Industry Teams of the Year
– Asia, Middle East and South Africa In-House Teams of the Year
– In-House Counsel of the Year, and
– Visionary Client Services Providers.
Competing in-house teams and counsel come from:
AO Smith (China)
Aboitiz Power Corporation
Abu Dhabi Global Market
Acorn International
ACWA Power
ADEN Group
AEON (M)
AFGRI Group
Agilent Technologies
Al Dahra Holding
Alexander Forbes Group Holdings
Allcargo Logistics
Ant Small and Micro Financial Services Group
Aqua Golden Mississippi
Baiyin Nonferrous (Beijing) International Investment
Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts
Barclays Bank
Beam Mobility
CBRE Middle East
Chevron Philippines
CLP India Private
Concentrix Philippines
COSCO SHIPPING Ports
Danone China Beverage & Water
Danone Middle East
Diageo
Dubai Future Foundation
EFG Hermes
FedEx Express
Flash Entertainment FZ
Gartner
GlaxoSmithKline Vietnam
Grab
Henkel
Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private
Hyundai Engineering & Construction
IBM Japan
ICBC International Holdings
Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services
Intigral
Jardine Cycle & Carriage
Korea Gas Corporation
Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering
KPMG China
Landmark Group
Lear Corporation Asia Pacific
LG Chem
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets
Mankind Pharma
Manulife (International)
Manulife Financial Asia
Marsh Middle East & Africa
Maxis Berhad Group
Morgan Stanley
MTR Corporation
MUFG Bank
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Nestlé Middle East FZE
Netcare
PVH Asia
Ramco Systems
RGE
Samsung Electronics Indonesia
Sanofi (China) Investment
SATS
Shell Companies in the Philippines
Singapore Press Holdings
Sinovation Ventures
Taikang Insurance Group
Tata Realty
Telstra International
The Indian Hotels Company
The Walt Disney Company (Korea)
Unilever Southern Africa
WSP Asia
Yum! Asia Franchise
Zakher Marine International
Visionary Client Services Providers
– Law Firm Category Nominations:
AnJie Law Firm
BSA Ahmad Bin Hezeem & Associates
Clifford Chance
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
DFDL Myanmar
Dorsey & Whitney
Eiger
IRB Law
Kudun & Partners
L&L Partners Law Offices
LNT & Partners
Pinsent Masons
Tilleke & Gibbins
Vision & Associates
Yulchon
– Non-Law Firm Category Nominations:
Berkeley Research Group
Control Risks
docQbot
KorumLegal
Law In Order
Lawcadia
LawTech Malaysia
LOD
WillCraft
Following the e-Ceremony, a full rundown of the winners and analysis will be published in Asian-mena Counsel, magazine for the In-House Community.
About the charity:
*CC-TDI’s mission is to make childhood cancer universally survivable.
As a Commended External Counsel, I’m excited to invite you to the In-House Community, Counsel of the Year Awards e-Ceremony, live and online’ on Thursday May 28th, at 4.00pm HK, China time.
During the award e-ceremony, we will be announcing you as the winner, with your photograph included.
Cost is US$395 and includes your Winner’s Package*. 15% of the cost will be donated to our charity CC-TDI (Children’s Cancer Therapy Development Institute). Please register below.
‘Winner’s Package’ includes the following:
Your personal Award Trophy delivered to you.
Pass for the Live e-Ceremony.
A Winner’s Rosette/Logo to use in your signature, website and social media
Winner’s Feature in Asian-mena Counsel magazine, with your photograph, testimonial, and a quote from you.
The magazine will be directly distributed to our community of in-house counsel and private practice lawyers – as usual.
A customised graphic for you to announce your win on LinkedIn.
As an In-House Community Commended External Counsel of the Year, I hope you will be able join us online for this night of celebration and recognition of counsel that have pursued excellence in their roles.
Registration: In-House Community Counsels of the Year Awards e-Ceremony, 2020
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