Beyond the War Room: Turning Strategic Response into your Strategic Advantage

Back to SCCA Asia Pacific Legal Congress 2025

Threats to businesses take various forms, often at the intersection of legal, reputational, and governmental risks. In-house legal teams are expected to manage, if not lead, strategic responses to these threats to ensure alignment with business objectives, while coordinating with multiple internal and external stakeholders. In APAC, a multidisciplinary approach in your strategic response considering unique business, regulatory, and cultural nuances in each jurisdiction is essential.

This panel will walk through a scenario-based discussion with real-life examples to discuss how in-house counsel may appropriately identify and analyze relevant risks, develop and adopt strategies to respond to these risks, and prepare their businesses for potential threats in the future.

Speakers

Daniel Levison – Head of Litigation, Singapore and the firm’s Ethics and Compliance regional practice in Asia, Morrison Foerster, Singapore

Daniel Levison is the co-Managing Partner of Morrison Foerster’s Singapore office. He also leads the firm’s Litigation Department and heads its Ethics and Compliance practice in Asia. With over 24 years of experience in the Asia Pacific region, Dan has advised on a wide range of highly sensitive and complex cross-border compliance issues, including internal investigations and compliance reviews. His expertise covers areas such as fraud and corruption, cartel and competition matters, anti-money laundering, economic sanctions, export controls, privacy and data security, as well as regulatory and product safety investigations. Dan also assists clients with pre-acquisition and third-party compliance due diligence and the development, review, and implementation of compliance policies, procedures, and training programs.

Saqib Alam – Partner, Crisis Management, Morrison Foerster, London

Based in London, Saqib Alam advises global companies, boards and high net worth individuals facing business-critical issues and helps them resolve such matters from a legal and reputational standpoint. Saqib has acted in investigations and advised on corporate crises covering more than 30 countries around the world and has helped companies and individuals resolve issues with government agencies in the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Germany, India, and Singapore. Saqib regularly advises companies and individuals facing concurrent issues in multiple countries and has experience reaching coordinated and global resolutions with government agencies and third parties around the world. Saqib is admitted to practice in England, New York and Singapore.

Anish Hazra – Associate, Litigation, Morrison Foerster, Singapore

Anish helps clients resolve high-value business critical issues including complex commercial litigation and arbitration, as well as government enforcement action. Anish began his career in London, before relocating to Singapore in 2023. He has unique experience in the region advising clients who are concurrently managing multiple claims, regulatory actions and related reputational issues.

Anish has particular experience with contentious issues in the technology and sustainability sectors, and on matters that have a nexus with Japan. He has most recently advised global clients on multiple arbitrations arising out of renewable energy investments in Japan and a multinational technology company in connection with a high-profile UK public inquiry. Anish has also represented clients in a wide range of other matters including those arising out of shareholder disputes, M&A transactions, and bribery or fraud allegations. He has acted under major arbitral institutional rules, and collaborates with US colleagues and local counsel to provide clients with strategic advice on court litigation and investigations in a variety of jurisdictions, including India and the UAE. 

Prior to joining Morrison Foerster’s Singapore office, Anish was based in the firm’s London office and also practiced in the London disputes and investigations team of a leading international law firm. Anish studied law at the University of Oxford, graduating with First Class Honours.

Anish is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales.

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