About

JP Morgan, the global leader in financial services that offers solutions to the world’s most important corporations, governments and institutions, has had a presence in Asia Pacific for 140 years. The Technology, IP and Cyber and Corporate Functions team is led by Christian Gordon-Pullar. As part of a wider Asia Pacific Corporate Investment Banking and global Corporate and Regulatory team, the Asia team is comprised of five lawyers who all cover different areas of core specialism and apply their expertise to all areas of coverage, in rotation, whilst focusing on the core areas of technology and IP. ‘We particularly focus on outsourcing and offshoring, cloud, cybersecurity, technology contracts, fintech, together with non-technology outsourcing as well as inter-affiliate outsourcing. We also cover IP advisory matters across the region’, explains Gordon-Pullar. The team has recently assisted the company on significant cloud and fintech initiatives including Project Ubin, a blockchain-technology initiative run by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). They also are commended for aligning the department into jp Morgan’s corporate investment banking business and with regional banking legal colleagues to promote greater understanding of client and infrastructure risks across outsourcing, cyber regulations and emerging artificial intelligence. Vice president and assistant general counsel Kemmy Teng is based in Singapore and covers regulatory issues for Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan and Sri Lanka whilst providing legal support to various lines of business within the firm across Asia Pacific for their technology initiatives. Vice president and assistant general counsel Paul Petersen focuses on technology law and has a particular expertise in IT and telecommunication projects and has advised on both the vendor and procurement side of transactions, with a specialisation on the regulatory outsourcing elements of such transactions. His prime geographic focus at the company is Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia. Another key figure in the team is vice president and assistant general counsel, Anthony Lim, who covers regulatory issues for Southeast Asia and in particular, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines. His transactional work coverage includes cloud computing, cybersecurity issues and other third party vendors and his specialist coverage areas are cybersecurity regulation, Singapore and Malaysia outsourcing and IP. Lim is also a member of the Singapore Country Counsel office as their representative handling vendor, technology and other general regulatory matters and also assists in inter-affiliate agreement coverage with respect to outsourcing within the JP Morgan Chase Group. Ravenna Long, assistant vice president, covers regulatory issues for Northeast Asia, including Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea by supporting HR, Asset Management, Private Bank, global cloud and other technology projects and covering third party vendor contracting requirements for various lines of business within the firm in the region.