Jurisdictions and Regions

The IPBA accepts members from any country in the world.

We realize that as international lawyers, you may live in one country but are licensed there and/or in other jurisdictions. We consider the country in which you live to be your "country", and the country or countries in which you are licensed to be your "jurisdiction(s)".

Any jurisdiction with 25 or more members is eligible to elect a leader known as a Jurisdictional Council Member (JCM), who is in charge of membership issues for that jurisdiction. Currently, the following jurisdictions have a JCM:

Australia        Canada China France
Germany Hong Kong India Indonesia
Japan Korea Malaysia New Zealand
Pakistan The Philippines Singapore Switzerland
Taiwan Thailand United Kingdom United States
Vietnam      

 

An At-Large Council Member is elected either to support the JCM, or to support IPBA members in a jurisdiction or region without a leader. The following jurisdictions or regions have an At-Large Council Member:

China                Europe India
Latin America Osaka USA


In addition, Regional Coordinators are recommended for appointment by the IPBA President to support and promote membership in a larger geographical area. The following regions have Regional Coordinators:

Australasia & SW Pacific Islands East Asia Hawaii & N Pacific Islands
Middle East SE Asia  

 

Contact the local or regional representative if you have any questions about IPBA members, or want to get involved in IPBA activities in that area!

JCM

2018-2024

Michael Butler

Finlaysons
Level 7/43 Franklin Street
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

 Email
 61-8-8235-7407
 61-8-8232-2944

Australia has 21 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

JCM

2018-2024

Sean Muggah

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
1200 Waterfront Centre200 Burrard Street, P.O. Box 48600
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

 Email
 604-687-5744
 604-622-5907

Canada has 21 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

JCM

2018-2024

Junlu Jiang

Beijing Puran Law Firm
Room 1810, Building A, Huahua Mingcheng Building, 7 Jianguomen South Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing
Beijing, Beijing, China

 Email
 +86 10 6528 1619
 +86 10 6528 1619

At-Large Council Member

2018-2024

Xin Yue Shi

JunHe LLP
20/F, China Resources Building 8Jianguomenbei Avenue
Beijing, China

 Email
 86-10-8519-1300
 86-10-8519-1350

China has 72 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

 

大家好!

我来自中国,是北京市金杜律师事务所的合伙人。我的执业领域是劳动法和社会保障法。

我很高兴成为Jurisdictional Council Member的一员。

大家如有需要,请与我联系。

姜俊禄

 

Hello everyone!

I come from China. I am a partner from King & Wood Mallesons. I specialize in employment and social insurance laws.

I am very happy to become a Jurisdictional Council Member.

If you have any queries, please feel free to contact me.

Jiang Junlu

 


 

各位中国的律师同仁,感谢您关注和参与IPBA,在IPBA的平台上,中国律师的国际交往进一步扩大,影响力和形象不断提升。

希望中国律师继续积极参加IPBA的各项活动,与新朋老友共绘国际发展的蓝图。由衷盼望在IPBA的各种活动中见到各位。

 

2018年IPBA在马尼拉的大会取得了圆满成功。欢迎大家踊跃报名以下活动:

Wolters Kluwers' China: 4th Annual International Arbitration, Compliance and Competition Law Summit - Nov 15, 2018 Beijing

IPBA Annual Meeting and Conference in Singapore - April 25-27, 2019

Xin Yue (Henry) Shi

史欣悦

 

 

 

JCM

2019-2025

Frédéric Dal Vecchio

Frederic Dal Vecchio
87, Avenue Charles de Gaulle
Neuilly-Sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France

 Email
 +33146248402
 +33970614135

France has 23 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

 

JCM

2022-2025

Thomas Zwissler

ZIRNGIBL Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft mbB
Karlstrasse 23
Munich, Bavaria, Germany

 Email
 ++49 - 89 - 290 50 220
 ++49 - 89 - 290 50 290

Germany has 39 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

JCM

2023-2026

Fred Kan

Fred Kan & Co.
Suite 3104-6, 31/F Central Plaza18 Harbour Road
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

 Email
 852-2598-1318
 852-2588-1318

Hong Kong has 56 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

JCM

2020-2026

Shweta Bharti

Hammurabi & Solomon Partners
405A&B, 4th Floor, Gate No. 3, Saket District Centre, Saket
New Delhi, Delhi, India

 Email
 +91-9811020612
 +91-11-4352 0001

At-Large Council Member

2019-2025

Manjula Chawla

Phoenix Legal
Phoenix House, 254 Okhla Industrial Estate, Phase III
New Delhi, Delhi, India

 Email
 +91 11 49830000
 +91 11 49830099

India has 70 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

 

Looking forward to my tenure as the JCM for India jurisdiction and work towards increasing the Indian footprint at the IPBA and also ensure that there is maximization of visibility of IPBA and its activities across relevant domestic events.

Shweta Bharti
January 1, 2020

JCM

2023-2026

Abadi Abi Tisnadisastra

ATD Law in Association with Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
Treasury Tower 2F, SCBD, Lot 28 District 8. Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav. 52-43, Senayan, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Selatan
DKI Jakarta, Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia

 Email
 811183700

Indonesia has 30 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

JCM

Japan
2018-2024

Kenichi Masuda

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Otemachi Park Building,
1-1-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo, Japan

 Email
 81-3-6775-1026
 81-3-6775-2026

At-Large Council Member

Osaka
2018-2024

Kazuhiro Kobayashi

Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners
27F Nakanoshima Festival Tower2-3-18 Nakanoshima, Kita-ku
Osaka, Osaka, Japan

 Email
 81-6-6208-1500
 81-6-6226-3055

Japan has 227 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

 

JCM

2023-2026

Yong-Jae Chang

Lee & Ko
Hanjin Building, 63 Namdaemun-ro, Jung-gu
Seoul, Seoul, Korea, Republic of

 Email
 +822 772 4000
 +822 772 4001

Korea has 35 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

JCM

2023-2026

Kumar Kanagasabai

Skrine
Unit No. 50-8-1, 8th Floor, Wisma UOA Damansara, 50 Jalan Dungun Damansara Heights, 50490
Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia

 Email
 60-3-2081 3734
 603-20943211

Malaysia has 38 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

JCM

2019-2025

Michael Shanahan

Tompkins Wake
P. O. Box 2543
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

 Email
 +64 07 839 4771
 +64 7 839 4913

New Zealand has 17 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

JCM

2018-2024

Mohammad Abdur Rahman

Vellani & Vellani
148, 18th East Street, Phase I, Defence Officers' Housing Authority
Karachi , Sindh , Pakistan

 Email
 +92 (21) 35801000
 +92 (21) 3580-2120

Pakistan has 32 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

JCM

2022-2025

Emerico De Guzman

ACCRALAW
22F, ACCRALAW Tower, 2nd Ave. cor 30th St., Bonifacio Global City
Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines, Philippines

 Email
 +632-88308000
 +632-84037007

The Philippines has 43 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

JCM

2023-2026

Kirindeep Singh

Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP
80 Raffles Place #33-00 UOB Plaza 1
Singapore, Singapore , Singapore

 Email
 +65 62252626
 +65 65572522

Singapore has 93 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

JCM

2020-2026

Urs Zenhäusern

Baker & McKenzie Zurich
Holbeinstrasse 30
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

 Email
 +41443841414
 +41443841284

Switzerland has 40 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

JCM

2023-2024

Monica Meng-Ju Wang

Formosa Transnational Attorneys at Law
13F, Lotus Building, 136 Jen Ai Road, Section 3
Daan District, Taipei City, Taiwan

 Email
 +886227557366
 +886227088435

Taiwan has 56 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

JCM

2022-2025

Pimvimol ("June ") Vipamaneerut

Tilleke & Gibbins
20th-26th Floor, Supalai Grand Tower, No. 1011 Rama 3 Road, Chongnonsi, Yannawa
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

 Email
 66-2056-5555
 66-2056-5678

Thailand has 22 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

 

JCM

2023-2024

Kushal Gandhi

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
London, London, United Kingdom

 Email
 +44 20 7367 3000
 +44 20 7367 2000

United Kingdom has 45 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

JCM

2023-2024

Taisuke Kimoto

Covington & Burling LLP
1999 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, California, United States

 Email
 1-424-332-4794

At-Large Council Member

2022-2026

Wilson Chu

McDermott Will & Emery
2501 North HarwoodSuite 1900
Dallas, TX, United States

 Email
 214.295.8000

United States has 64 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

Welcome to the Jurisdictional page for the United States.

As the Jurisdictional Council Member for the United States, it’s my job to encourage all of you to get and stay involved in IPBA activities.
Members from the United States play an important role in the IPBA and serve on many committees.
We welcome you to join and to get involved. I am proud to have been a member of the IPBA for many years, and I consider the IPBA vital to my practice of international trade law in Washington, DC (and a lot of fun).

We can pair new members with long term members who can provide ideas on getting involved and seizing the benefits of IPBA membership.
The key step is to join a Committee and get involved in the Committee activities, which include everything from preparing panels for the Annual Conferences (next up, Singapore in 2019) or the mid-year meeting (next up, Thailand),
or any number of regional conferences (like our recent event in Los Angeles).  

If you have any questions about how to get more involved in the IPBA and how to make the most of your membership, please let me know. 
We need you to be actively engaged. We need each of you to recruit a new member from the United States, to help with regional events (send me any ideas for topics, areas of your expertise, what you would like to speak on, which committees are of interest).

JCM

2023-2026

Diep Hoang

Dilinh Legal
3F Broadway C, 150 Nguyen Luong Bang street, District 7
Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

 Email
 00842862983778
 00842862983779

Vietnam has 26 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

At-Large Council Member

2023-2026

Frederique David

Harlay Avocats
83, Boulevard Haussmann
Paris, France, France

 Email
 +33 (0)1 45 01 45 01
 +33 (0)1 45 01 45 00

Number of members in Europe: 

Austria 4Belgium 5Denmark 2France 23Germany 39
Italy 20Kazakhstan 2Luxembourg 4Malta 1Netherlands 11
Poland 4Russian Federation 19Spain 7Sweden 2Switzerland 40
Ukraine 2United Kingdom 45   

(as of June 23, 2020)

 

At-Large Council Member

2023-2026

Luciano Ojea Quintana

Marval O'Farrell Mairal
Av. Leandro N. Alem 882
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

 Email
 54-9-11-5848-4792
 54-11-4310-0200

Number of members in Latin America:

Argentina 3Brazil 13Chile 7
Colombia 2Mexico 1Peru 5
Uruguay 2  

(as of June 23, 2020)

 

 

Regional Coordinator

2021-2025

Benjamin Smith

MinterEllison
Level 40 Governor Macquarie Tower 1 Farrer Place
Sydney, NSW, Australia

 Email
 +61 2 9921 8888

Number of members in Australasia and Southwestern Pacific Islands:

Australia 21          Fiji 1          New Zealand 17

(as of June 23, 2020)

 

Regional Coordinator

2020-2024

Steven E Howard

Fiskars Japan Co. Ltd.
Kowa Nibancho Bldg. 4F, 11-19, Nibancho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

 Email
 81-70-4101-8823

Hawaii has 11 members
(as of June 23, 2020)

Regional Coordinator

2021-2025

Song Dihuang

Hui Zhong Law Firm
21 Floor, North Tower, Beijing Kerry Centre. 1 Guang Hua Road, Chaoyang District
Beijing, China, China

 Email
 86-10-5639 9688
 86-10-5639 9699

Regional Coordinator

2021-2025

Mohammed R Alsuwaidi

Alsuwaidi & Company LLC
Suite 252 Emarat Atrium Building, Sheikh Zayed Road, P.O. Box 7273
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

 Email
 971-4-321-1000
 971-4-321-1001

Number of members in the Middle East:

Bahrain 1Iran 1Kuwait 1
Turkey 2United Arab Emirates 11 


(as of June 23, 2020)

Regional Coordinator

2021-2025

Sylvette Young Tankiang

Villaraza & Angangco
V&A Law Center11th Avenue corner 39th StreetBonifacio Global City
Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines

 Email
 63-2-8988-6088
 63-2-988-6000