His projects and transactions have included the following:

• Acting as the chief legal advisor to Shinsei Bank，to which he provides ongoing advice relating to all aspects of its business, including government relations, banking, commercial transactions, acquisitions as well as general advice to the management.

• Advising Barings，a prestigious UK investment bank after it failed following unauthorized Asian future transactions. The work involved intense negotiations with Japan's financial authorities, stock exchange, and courts.

Susan has been listed as one of the leading lawyers in several professional publications such as Euro Money Legal Group Guide to the World’s Leading Real Estate Lawyers, Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers, and AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers.

Bar Admissions
• Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore, 1985

Education
• National University of Singapore, LL.B. (Hons), 1984

Admitted to practice in 1981, Mr. Kreider started his career as a trial lawyer with the Wall Street law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw and Pittman LLP, where he took more than 70 commercial cases to trial and prosecuted more than 20 appeals. Since that time, he has held senior positions in government, investigating and prosecuting fraud and securities law violations as the Chief of Enforcement of the New York Regional Office of the US Securities & Exchange Commission, and as the Director of Corporation Finance of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.

With more than a decade of experience as General Counsel to the world's #1 and #2 telecommunications operators, China Mobile and Vodafone, Mr. Kreider has been a member of Vodafone’s Executive Leadership Team since 2006. Dividing his time between advising the Vodafone directors in relation to contentious and regulatory matters, supervising a team of 10 in-house Vodafone lawyers, overseeing relationships with external legal counsel, and working as an arbitrator and mediator, Mr. Kreider also frequently speaks and writes about telecommunications and dispute resolution.

Mr. Kreider has been appointed by various leading arbitral institutions and nominated by disputants themselves to serve as arbitrator in relation to a wide range of cases, involving telecommunications, computer networks and services, and China-related business matters, including among them complex, multi-party cases with very significant dollar amounts at stake.

He is a member of the Singapore Omnibus Insolvency Legislation Committee; Technical Research Committee of INSOL International; Insolvency Practice Committee of the Law Society of Singapore; Expert Witness Committee of the Singapore Institute of Architects; Legal Advisor to the Advertising Standards Authority of Singapore; Deputy Chairman of the Ethics Committee and Chairman of the Publications Committee of the Insolvency Professionals Association of Singapore.

Some significant high profile insolvency and restructuring matters he has been involved include having acted for:

•	advising Mira International Holdings (“Mira”), an indirect wholly‐owned subsidiary of PT Mitra Rajasa Tbk, and Mira’s subsidiaries including PT Apexindo, in debt and corporate restructuring and defending Mira in the enforcement action taken against the company by its creditors. The total debts of Mira amount to an overall of US$525 million;
•	advising various Lehman Brothers entities on Singapore legal issues relating to the collapse of Lehman Brothers
•	Reliance National Asia Re Pte Ltd, an insurance company in ‘run‐off’. The matter involved effecting a solvent company Scheme of Arrangement to manage the ‘run‐off’;
•	Ernst & Young, the Judicial Managers for Citiraya Industries Ltd, which was embroiled in allegations of financial fraud and had debts to the tune of several hundred million dollars;
•	Fu Yu Corporation Ltd on its financial and operational restructuring;
•	the Singapore subsidiaries of Refco Inc on various issues resulting from Refco Inc being placed under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code;
•	a substantial creditor in relation to the insolvency of China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corporation Limited;
•	Raffles Marina Ltd on a restructuring exercise of Raffles Marina, which involved the creation of a novel structure for club membership;
•	SPH Mediaworks Ltd, one of the only two companies in Singapore with a Free‐to‐Air TV broadcast licence, in its liquidation which amounts to S$220 million;
•	DBS Bank Ltd, in placing Jurong Hi‐Tech Industries Pte Ltd under judicial management and defending a claim of unfair preference initiated by the judicial managers;
•	Singapore Exchange as the principal advisor in relation to a clearing member default scenario exercise;
•	KBC Bank N.V. and a potential investor in relation to a proposed restructuring of Jaya Holdings Ltd;
•	Continental Chemical Corporation Pte Ltd on its financial and operational restructuring; and
•	KBC Bank N.V. in relation to a proposed restructuring of TT International Ltd.

Ashok is noted for his expertise in insolvency and restructuring in various publications including Chambers Global (2007), Chambers Asia (2008), Who’s Who Legal Singapore (2008), IFLR 1000 (2008), PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2008 and Best Lawyers International 2008. Chambers Asia (2008) notes that Ashok “‘knows his way around things in a local context, giving useful and practical advice.’ Commended for his strategic approach, he is also described as ‘quick at grasping the complexities, and capable of handling people in tense situations.’

Bar Admissions

•	Barrister‐at‐law, Middle Temple, London, 1990
•	Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore, 1991

Education

•	Queen Mary College, University of London, LL.B. (Hons), 1989

Mr. Lawrence’s practice involves a wide array of regulatory, legislative, and transactional issues relating to the restructuring of the U.S. wholesale and retail electricity and natural gas industries, renewable energy, emissions regulation and trading, demand response and energy efficiency. He represents banks and financial institutions, marketers, aggregators, traders, municipal departments, industrial and large commercial customers, each as counterparties to energy-related transactions and before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and numerous utility commissions in states such as Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Illinois, Michigan, California, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Nevada, Montana, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland and Utah. He represents hedge funds, lenders and arbitrageurs regarding a variety of energy and utility matters. He also advises U.S. and international renewable and other generation developers with power plant and transmission projects including licensing, power purchase and REC agreements, interconnections and market structure throughout the United States. He also advises on FERC compliance and enforcement matters.