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Commercial and Corporate Practice
Kim Tean’s main areas of practice are equity capital markets, funds and fund management and corporate restructuring. Kim Tean also has extensive experience in cross border work handling joint ventures, cross-border mergers and acquisitions. He is also familiar with Chinese, Indonesian and American laws.
Intellectual Property and Technology Practice
Kim Tean heads a team of IP professionals that covers all aspects of prosecution and management of IP portfolios, including patents, trade marks, registered designs, domain names, trade secrets and confidential information in Singapore and many other countries. With his strong background in the technological field, Kim Tean provides effective guidance in the field of technology licensing and research collaborations.
Recent Experience
- Advising China Medstar Limited on Singapore law for its admission to trading on AIM market operated by the London Stock Exchange;
- Advising Alphomega Research Group Pte Ltd on its admission to trading on OTC Captial, a market making trading platform for the securities of unlisted Singapore companies.
- Appointed as Independent Director of Jade Technologies Holdings
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Laws (Honours), University of London
- Bachelor of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore
- Barrister-at-law, The Middle Temple, London
- Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore
- Registered Patent Attorney, Singapore
Memberships
- Advisor, SMU Business Innovation Generator (BIG)
- Consultant, Singapore Inventors’ Development Association
- Co-Representative (Patents Committee), Asian Patent Attorneys Associations Singapore Group
- Member, Association of Singapore Patent Agent
- Intellectual Property Judicial Expertise Observer, Beijing, China
Publications / Seminars
Kim Tean is a prolific speaker who is often invited to speak in seminars and symposiums. He also regularly authors articles for publications and books.
- Invited Speaker, IPOS Career Seminar (30 May 2008)
- Invited Guest, represented Singapore to attend the Korea International Women’s Invention Exposition (KIWIE) 2008 in Seoul, Korea (8 May 2008)
- Co-Author, Intellectual Property for Integrated Circuits, J Ross Publisher (USA) – to be published in June 2008
- IP Consult Series (10 Apr 2008)
- Invited Judge, Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award 2008 (8 Mar 2008)
- Invited to attend the Ministry of Law Appreciation Dinner (27 Nov 2007)
- Invited Speaker, Patents & Intellectual Property at BCS Group Management Meeting (9 Nov 2007)
- Invited Speaker, Wee Kim Wee Centre, Entrepreneurship Talk Series, in collaboration with SMU BIG (5 Nov 07)
- Interviewed by Career Central Magazine, Jobs Factory Pte Ltd
(3 Sep 07)
- Invited Judge, Creatively Mine II – MediaCorp Channel 8 TV Programme (Jun 07)
- Invited Speaker, 2nd China-Singapore Intellectual Property Conference (Beijing, China) (28 May 07)
- Invited Judge, Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award 2007
(10 Mar 07)
- Invited speaker, IP Government Incentives for Business, organised by SBF (Aug 2006)
- Invited speaker, 360 View of Internationalisation – Opportunities and Challenges of Growing via M&A, organised by IE Singapore (Jul 2006)
- Invited speaker, Synergy; A Patent Commercialisation Competition (Jul 2006)
- IPOS-IE Singapore and Global IP – Dealing with IP Abroad (Apr 2006)
- IP Consult Series (Feb 2006)
- Nominated as Singapore representative to attend WIPO Asia-Pacific Regional Seminar on the Role of Intellectual Property Institutions in Promoting Innovation in Developing Countries, World Intellectual Property Organisation (Nov 2005)
- Company Secretary Forum, The Asia Business Forum (Aug 2005)
- Invited speaker, 17th Singapore Pharmacy Congress, organised by Pharmaceutical Society of Singapore (PSS) and Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore (NUS) (Jul 2005)
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