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SINGAPORE CONVENTION WEEK EVENTS

SINGAPORE CONVENTION WEEK EVENTS

Who Controls The Switch?

by AAA-ICDR Asia Case Management Centre

27 August, Thursday

15:00 - 17:00

AAA-ICDR Asia Case Management Centre

Across Asia, governments are pursuing greater regional integration, cross-border energy trade, and private investment while simultaneously placing increasing emphasis on energy security, affordability, and strategic autonomy. As new infrastructure is built, markets evolve, and capital is deployed at unprecedented scale, the assumptions underpinning energy investments are being tested in real time. How are governments, investors, developers, utilities, and consumers navigating competing priorities around market liberalization, state intervention, regional cooperation, and long-term energy security? Bringing together leaders from across the energy sector, this panel would explore the commercial, regulatory, and legal forces reshaping Asia's energy landscape, and what they mean for investment, contracting, and the governance of increasingly interconnected energy systems.

Speakers

Adam MONCRIEFF

Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Adam Moncrieff is a market-leading project finance lawyer who regularly advises project investors, sponsors, lenders and ECAs on large and complex projects in Asia-Pacific and beyond. Adam’s recent experience includes advising the developers on various BOT and new generation gas thermal power projects, advising developers and lenders on various renewable energy projects across Asia-Pacific as well as investors in various power including renewables sector assets regionally. His deep project finance experience ranges from renewable energy projects to thermal power, oil and gas, LNG, petrochemicals, infrastructure, telecommunications, and water projects in Asia-Pacific and globally.

Elaine WONG

Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Elaine is a dual qualified, multilingual dispute resolution lawyer who “stands head and shoulders above the rest” (Asia Pacific Legal 500) with over 23 years of experience advising clients on litigation, arbitration and investigation matters. Elaine has practiced in Singapore, Paris and Tokyo, representing clients in cross-border disputes across a range of industries, with particular focus on the energy, infrastructure and technology sectors. These disputes have been governed by the laws of Singapore, Japan, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, France, England & Wales, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, the British Virgin Islands and New Zealand under the leading institutional rules.

Thara GOPALAN

Vice President, AAA-ICDR

Thara Gopalan is Vice President at the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the international division of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the world's largest provider of ADR services. In this role, she leads the AAA-ICDR's strategy, operations, and development across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Oceania. Before joining the AAA-ICDR, Thara practiced as a commercial disputes lawyer in Singapore, appearing in matters raising novel questions of law before all levels of the Singapore courts, as well as in arbitrations and mediations involving parties from around the world. Today, Thara works with governments, businesses, lawyers, and other stakeholders to develop dispute resolution frameworks that support cross-border commerce and help organizations manage legal and commercial risk.

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