About

Lavin S. Nair joined Juki Singapore as part of his ‘journey to assist companies in their efforts to conduct business in a manner that upholds compliance and the rule of law without undermining the efficacy of its business operations’, evidencing the genuine enthusiasm he feels for in-house legal work and the benefits lawyers can have for companies. ‘The key fundamental principle is always to have the company’s best interests in heart while having its vision and mission in mind’, Nair says. ‘Ever since the legal department in Juki Singapore was created, I have inculcated this principle to all of my team members’. He and his team oversee all legal and risk aspects of the company’s entities in Asia Pacific, the Middle East, East African and South African regions – a demanding a complex workload that provides ample opportunity for Nair to demonstrate his abilities. He mentions just some of the projects that he and the team have been responsible for since taking over: ‘The most important include, but are not limited to, a litigation case in Bangladesh, an the enforcement of IP rights in Malaysia and negotiation with key customers regarding outstanding payments for the company’s products in South Korea and Indonesia’. In terms of personal highlights, Nair mentions being tasked with leading a major M&A project for the company as a particularly fond memory: ‘I was given the opportunity to spearhead the company’s first ever acquisition project of one of our main distributors in Thailand. This task equipped me with instrumental knowledge of cross border M&A, and gave me an understanding of how companies operate in Thailand’.