{"id":126,"date":"2019-02-18T10:06:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T14:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/probonolaw\/?p=126"},"modified":"2019-02-17T10:22:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T14:22:06","slug":"pro-bono-makes-the-profession-a-profile-of-arfat-selvam-managing-partner-of-the-duane-morris-singapore-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/probonolaw\/2019\/02\/18\/pro-bono-makes-the-profession-a-profile-of-arfat-selvam-managing-partner-of-the-duane-morris-singapore-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Bono makes the Profession: A Profile of Arfat Selvam, Managing Partner of the Duane Morris Singapore Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Arfat Selvam<\/a>, Managing Partner in the Duane Morris\u00a0 &\u00a0\u00a0 Selvam, LLP<\/a> \u00a0Singapore office was recently profiled <\/a>by the Law Gazette<\/a> of the Law Society of Singapore<\/a>.\u00a0 In 2017 \u00a0Ms. Selvam was Pro Bono Ambassador for the Society.\u00a0 In this profile,<\/a> Ms. Selvam answers questions on her pro bono work:\u00a0 How\u00a0 did she get started in pro bono<\/em>? And why does she think it is important? She also provides advice for young lawyers, law firms\u00a0 and her hopes for the pro bono landscape in Singapore. To read the profile, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mrs Selvam has over forty years’ experience in corporate finance having been at the forefront of the development of the financial services market in Singapore. Her wide array of experience includes mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructures, takeovers, funds raising in the capital markets, privatisations, financial services, cross border investments, financial services and international joint ventures.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Selvam was president of The Law Society of Singapore in 2003 and a former Director of the Stock Exchange of Singapore Limited. She was also a member of the Senate of the Academy of Law, the Board of Legal Education, and was formerly on the Board of the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority.\u00a0Arfat is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Directors.\u00a0 She is a director of JurongHealth Fund Limited and Law Society Pro Bono Services. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Rahmatan Lil Alamin Foundation Ltd.<\/p>\n

To read our 2018 Pro Bono\u00a0Annual Report<\/a> and learn more about the Duane Morris pro bono program, click here. <\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arfat Selvam, Managing Partner in the Duane Morris\u00a0 &\u00a0\u00a0 Selvam, LLP \u00a0Singapore office was recently profiled by the Law Gazette of the Law Society of Singapore.\u00a0 In 2017 \u00a0Ms. Selvam was Pro Bono Ambassador for the Society.\u00a0 In this profile, Ms. Selvam answers questions on her pro bono work:\u00a0 How\u00a0 did she get started in … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Pro Bono makes the Profession: A Profile of Arfat Selvam, Managing Partner of the Duane Morris Singapore Office”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,13,53,52,55,54],"ppma_author":[61],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-arfat-selvam","tag-duane-morris","tag-duane-morris-selvam","tag-duane-morris-pro-bono","tag-law-gazette","tag-law-society-of-singapore"],"authors":[{"term_id":61,"user_id":218,"is_guest":0,"slug":"vbrown","display_name":"Valentine A. Brown","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0310f9dbc9098c1b1179b6537f198f013555afbd265a8ccc673c16a1809b2de1?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/probonolaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/probonolaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/probonolaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/probonolaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/probonolaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/probonolaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/probonolaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/probonolaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/probonolaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/probonolaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}