Emerico O. De Guzman is a Senior Partner and currently the Managing Partner of ACCRALAW. He was the Head of the Firm’s Labor and Employment Department from 2008 until his election as Managing Partner in February 2014. He obtained his Bachelor of Science (Psychology) and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of the Philippines. He attended the Executive Program in Negotiation of NUS and Kennedy School in 1999, the Academy of American and International Law in Dallas, Texas, U.S in 2005 and the Leadership in Law Firms Program of Harvard Law School Executive Education in 2018.  He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Southwestern Institute for International and Comparative Law.  

Jacqueline Chua is the founder and managing director of Jacque Law, a Singapore law firm specialising in litigation and disputes resolution.  Before setting up the firm, she was a partner in one of Singapore’s Big Four law firms. 

Chua is experienced in both contentious and non-contentious aspects of employment law, and is particularly focused on resolving high-value employment disputes, including those involving large-scale investigations, terminations, and contentious team moves.  

She has successfully represented clients in numerous proceedings and achieved extremely favourable outcomes for her clients.  Highlights include representing a prominent healthcare conglomerate in the Singapore High Court to obtain an urgent injunction against an errant employee for the delivery and restraint of use of confidential information; representing a senior executive in negotiations with his employer (a multi-national agriculture conglomerate) and achieving discontinuance of a claim in the Singapore High Court without any form of monetary payment to the employer and on a without admission of liability basis.   

Ranajit Dam is the managing editor of Thomson Reuters’ Legal Media Group, which includes Asian Legal Business, Asia’s foremost monthly publication covering the legal industry. In his role, he tracks developments in the legal sector across Asia, and also legal and regulatory developments that impact the business and investment climate. 

A former lawyer, Dam has been a journalist for more than 15 years, after graduating from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Since then, he has worked in the United States, India, China and Singapore, where he is currently based. Dam has been with Thomson Reuters since 2011.