A lot actually. Today I start work at TSMP Law Corporation. Yep, that’s right. After a year of running a solo IP practice in the US and Singapore, it became clear that to grow a practice, I needed to focus on one jurisdiction. Singapore became that jurisdiction. Also, feedback from potential clients was that it was impossible for them to send quality work to a solo practice. I needed to be in a larger law firm.
So the choice for me was to grow organically or to join an existing practice. Fortunately, the choice wasn’t a very difficult one after I had a long talk one evening with Stef and Shen Yi over a nice bottle of 1998 Chateauneuf du Pape. This was followed by numerous discussions with the other directors of the firm. I found that their vision of their practice coincided with mine. The firm wanted to build their intellectual property and technology practice along the same lines as I did. And the rest was history as they say.
In many ways this is a full career circle for me as I go back to work in Raffles Place which is the epicenter of downtown corporate Singapore. I started work in Raffles Place in 1983 and worked in the buildings next to the building I will be heading too in a couple of hours. Deja vu.
I’m excited by the opportunities that will open together and working with a team again. I missed the teaming aspect when I was running a solo practice.
Gotta run and get ready for work!
