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Southeast Asia Teams 2018

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Southeast Asia Teams 2018

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SATS is a Singaporean airport ground handling and catering business that was founded in 1972. Owing to its position as market leader and its long history in the commercial aviation industry in the country is required to employ a legal team that has the culture of being, in the words of a team member, ‘a trusted partner, working collaboratively, innovatively and proactively to safeguard SATS’ interests and advance SATS’ vision and mission’. The team is led by general counsel Prema Subramaniam and consists of five lawyers and three non-legal staff arranged in a flat, single-tier hierarchy that ‘fosters a close working relationship amongst all members’. Embracing technology, the team has recently changed its internal processes by working with an external IT vendor to support SATS’ “interested person transaction clearance procedures” onto an electronic platform, and to develop an online electronic reporting platform for the board of directors to declare changes in directorships and share ownership. These initiatives have resulted in ‘increase efficiency and productivity’ through a reduction in paperwork and administrative work across departments. The team is an international one, comfortable working across jurisdictions and in 2017 assisted on five major projects in the jurisdictions of China, Hong Kong, Turkey, Malaysia and India. These projects were an example of the teams’ expertise in both legal and business senses, spanning two joint venture agreements, a share swap, a new partnership with Hong Kong Airlines and a collaboration with Turkish Airlines that aims to create one of the largest flight kitchens in the world.

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