Technology, Media and Telecommunications Pioneering Space: Commercial Opportunities and Legal Challenges

Miriam is a registered foreign lawyer in Japan licensed in both the Philippines and the State of New York. She is regularly involved in cross-border transactions (e.g., JVs, FDIs, licensing, supply and other service arrangements, reinsurance, finance-related transactions, and funds), and inbound investments into Japan as well as international dispute resolution, including arbitration, and compliance investigation matters. She is the incoming Co-Chair of the TMT Committee of the IPBA from 2024. She also serves as a volunteer Public Relations Officer of the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association and is a Co-Founder and Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Energy Related Arbitration Practitioners – Japan Chapter. She also teaches international arbitration and cross-border transactions and legal issues from time to time.

Doil Son is the Head of the IP & Technology Practice of Yulchon LLC. His experience is focused on Mergers & Acquisitions, Information Communication Technology (ICT), Telecom and Media, Data Privacy and Cyber Security, including Trade Secret Protection as well as crisis management. He represented leading multinational and local e-commerce companies and financial institutions for their ICT businesses involving artificial intelligence, big data, data privacy, cyber security, cryptocurrency, metaverse, fintech, and healthtech. He frequently lectures on ICT issues concerning data privacy, artificial intelligence, fintech, and healthtech in various conferences held by the International Bar Association (IBA), Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA), and Korean government agencies. Mr. Son has a B.A. in political science from the Seoul National University and an L.L.M. from UCLA School of Law (2002). He joined Yulchon as a partner in 2012, after serving as a judge at Kwangju District Court for two years from 1996 to 1997 and working at other major Korean law firms. Mr. Son established his international network by serving as the Vice President for International Relations of the Korean Bar Association from 2012 to 2013, and is currently serving as the Co-Chair of the TMT Committee of the IPBA and Co-Chair of the Technology Law Committee of the IBA.

A Franco-Maltese national splitting his time between Perth, Paris, and Tokyo, Rodolphe Ruffié-Farrugia is a lawyer with the International Arbitration Group at Clifford Chance. His practice as counsel and arbitrator is primarily geared toward energy, resources, and infrastructure disputes in Asia and Africa (both commercial and investment cases) but he has developed a specific expertise in international space law since 2015. Rodolphe is frequently invited to speak about space dispute resolution and space resources exploitation at industry conferences and arbitration seminars. He is one of the lawyers leading Clifford Chance's Space Group; he is also an Advisor of the Space Court Foundation and he advises the Iceland Space Agency on all legal matters.

Ms. Yumiko Tateshita is the Executive Secretary of the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF) and an Advisor to the Director of the International Relations and Research Department at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. She manages the Secretariat office of the APRSAF, the largest space-related conference in the Asia-Pacific region, which is participated in by governments, space agencies and industries. Within the APRSAF, she also manages the National Space Legislative Initiatives, which aim to enhance the capacity of countries to implement their national space legislation/policies in accordance with international norms. She holds an L.L.B from Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo and is a graduate of the Space Studies Program of the International Space University (France).

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Yi-Shun Teoh is a partner in the Commercial Disputes team at RPC in Hong Kong. His practice focuses on international arbitration and commercial litigation. Yi-Shun represents technology companies, private equity firms, financial institutions, hospitality, major corporates and high net worth individual clients in complex Hong Kong court litigation proceedings and international arbitrations under leading institutional rules (including ICC, HKIAC, SIAC, CIETAC and UNCITRAL) seated in Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Beijing, Shenzhen and Jakarta. He has acted in some of the most high-profile and landmark set aside/enforcement cases in the Hong Kong courts over the past decade. Yi-Shun is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), and a member of the Arbitration Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong and the Arbitration and ADR Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Hong Kong. He is a Solicitor Advocate with Higher Rights of Audience in civil proceedings before the Hong Kong High Court and Court of Final Appeal, and is triple-qualified in Hong Kong, England and Wales and New South Wales (Australia).