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Here you will find all the latest information for Asia Pacific Region. This includes upcoming events, news and insights.
Asia Pacific Insights and Events
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Climate Change Adaptation: Climate Contracting & Policy Interventions in South Asia – Recording and Member Content
In this GAIL regional event, hosted by GAIL Asia Pacific, we examine the role of cross-border legal policy interventions in South Asia to facilitate climate change adaptation. Access the event recording and an 8-step case study and template for involving lawyers in climate contracting.
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GAIL Blended Finance Project
A global project undertaken by the Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers that aims to identify and map the legal and regulatory barriers to combining philanthropic, government and commercial funding to achieve positive impact; and share legal case studies to support and enable the scaling of blended finance instruments and structures.
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Climate Change Adaptation: Climate Contracting & Policy Interventions in South Asia
In this GAIL regional event, hosted by GAIL Asia Pacific, GAIL members and partners will examine the role of cross-border legal policy interventions in South Asia to facilitate climate change adaptation. It will focus on concrete steps that lawyers can take to upskill themselves and encompass climate change considerations within their legal practice. And it…
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GAIL Asia Pacific presents Issue 2 of the Impact Lawyers Journal
We are proud to present the second edition of the Impact Lawyers Journal, produced by members of GAIL Asia Pacific.
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Annual Summit 2023 – Member only access
Join leading impact lawyers from around the world in London at the Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers’ Annual Summit on 14 – 15 March 2023. Book your tickets here.
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Annual Summit 2023
Join leading impact lawyers from around the world in London at the Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers’ Annual Summit on 14 – 15 March 2023. Buy tickets here.

Dr. Ammara Farooq Malik
Chair, GAIL Asia Pacific
Founding Principal Attorney, AFMalik Law- Attorneys & International Development Consultants
Pakistan
Dr. Ammara Farooq Malik is a Pakistani corporate and impact lawyer, international social entrepreneur and international development expert with over 23 years of professional experience across various multidisciplinary sectors such as academia, Law, social entrepreneurship, international development, gender and green infrastructure development.
She is Founder of the Seplaa Group (CEO of Seplaa Canada, Seplaa Enterprises-Pakistan, AFMalik Law, SEPLAA Foundation and Impact World Press). As Founder Principal Attorney of AFMalik Law- Attorneys & International Development Consultants, she is also the first impact lawyer of Pakistan focusing on the integration of ESG (Environment, Sustainability & Governance) clauses in companies’ legal compliance documents and has created the 5 Cog Wheels for Sustainable Business Strategy Tool for impact law, impact investing and policy integration in impact businesses for a transdisciplinary holistic approach towards development.
She has presented as a legal, gender, climate change and social enterprise expert at international conferences at UNESCO (Kazakhstan), CGA New York University (USA), University of Kent (UK), International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development-ICIMOD (Nepal), Asia Pacific Adaptation Network’s Climate Change Adaptation Forum (Colombo and Manila), Hollings Centre for International Development (Maldives & Turkey) and the Asian Development Bank (Singapore). She is a US World Learning IVLP Alumna, Former Chairperson of the Lahore High Court Bar Association Committee on ‘Climate change, Infrastructure, Gender & SE Laws’ and is presently the Co- Lead for the ICIMOD Nepal Technical Working Group for ‘Data Analysis’ for Climate change adaptation’s scientific research in the Upper Indus Basin.

Brian Tang
Founding Executive Director, LITE Lab at Hong Kong University
Hong Kong

Dr Joseph Chun
Partner, Shook Lin & Bok
Singapore

Giana Lin
Partner, Fuguan Law
China

Jon Cheung
Partner, Prolegis Lawyers
Australia

Michael Ryland
Director, Centre for Social Finance Law
Australia

Phillippa Wilkie
Special Counsel, Chapman Tripp
New Zealand

Sotaro Hotta
Associate, Nishimura & Asahi
Japan

Steven Moe
Partner, Parry Field Lawyers Limited
New Zealand

Sung-Hyui Park
Partner, Bates Wells
UK (South Korea)

Tze-Wei Ng
Associate, Stephenson Harwood
Hong Kong

Vivien Teu
Partner and Head of Asset Management & ESG, Dentons Hong Kong LLP
Hong Kong