Arbitration and Winding Up: Is it Time to Embrace Change?
by The Right Honourable Lady Mary Arden
International Judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore
Former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
29 October 2025
Shaping the Future of Commercial Law in Asia: Making Great Ideas Work
The Future of Capital Markets: Navigating Change in Singapore and Beyond
9 September 2025
“Technology offers a paradigm shift. Protections, governance, and compliance can now be embedded directly into financial instruments. These innovations have the potential to create entirely new markets beyond traditional equities and bonds, with Singapore in a unique position to take the lead. The real opportunity lies in identifying which innovations will generate genuine network effects and moving first to shape the future of global capital markets.”
Mr Piyush Gupta
SMU Chairman
Research Excellence and Informed Debate on Trusts, Wealth Management and Philanthropy
Startup Failure
by Professor Elizabeth Pollman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
16 April 2025
Jointly launched by the University of Chicago’s Center on Law and Finance, the Singapore Management University’s Singapore Global Restructuring Initiative, and the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law with the purpose of facilitating academic and policy discussions that can lead to the improvement of insolvency systems around the world.
The Asian Corporate Law Forum (ACLF) aims to be the preeminent organisation in the world for scholarship on corporate law and governance in Asia. The ACLF’s primary objective is to generate ground-breaking scholarship on Asian corporate law and governance to advance the understanding of corporate law and governance in Asia and around the world.
A Global Platform Created to Serve the International Insolvency Community by Promoting Cooperation and Cutting-Edge Research in Insolvency and Restructuring Law
To drive transformative change through futures-focused interdisciplinary legal research that offers cutting edge solutions to sustainability challenges.
Welcome to the Centre for Commercial Law in Asia (CCLA)
CCLA aims to advance commercial growth in Asia marked by
sustainability, inclusion and innovation, through excellent research.
We conduct and facilitate research in all areas of commercial law, with focus on its application, development and impact in Asia.
We aim to be a platform for generating great ideas and making these great ideas work, by promoting academic debates and active engagement, with government, practice and industry at international, regional and national levels.
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Awards
Cross-Border Insolvency Academic of the Year (2024) by Global Restructuring Review
This award recognises Associate Professor Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez’s cutting-edge work on insolvency and its impact in academic and policy debates internationally.
CIBEL Global Network Young Scholars Prize (2023)
The 2023 CIBEL Global Network Young Scholars Prize was awarded to Assistant Professor Stefanie Schacherer for her paper: “Normative Impacts and Legitimacy Dimensions in the Intersection of Trade and Agile Regulation within Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements".
You may download the paper here.
European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Best Law Working Paper (2023)
The 2023 ECGI Law Prize for the Best Paper in the ECGI Law Working Paper Series was awarded to Professor Dan W. Puchniak for his paper: “No Need for Asia to be Woke: Contextualizing Anglo-America’s “Discovery” of Corporate Purpose”.
You may download the paper here.
News & Updates
CCLA warmly congratulates our Yong Pung How Research Fellows, Dr. Ethan Beringen and Dr. Tianqi Gu, on their faculty appointments at the University of Queensland and Nanjing University, respectively.
Their achievements reflect the strength and impact of CCLA’s postdoctoral programme in nurturing the next generation of academic leaders.
Read Professor Vincent Ooi's article 'Beneficial ownership in domestic tax legislation, some clarity, but far from ‘well established’: Hargreaves Property Holdings Ltd v HMRC [2024] EWCA Civ 365' (Cambridge University Press)
Forthcoming: American Journal of Comparative Law
Professor Dan W. Puchniak's paper titled 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢: 𝘙𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘍𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘭𝘺 𝘐𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤? has been accepted for publication in the American Journal of Comparative Law.
Forthcoming: Harvard Business Law Review 15(3).
Professor Dan W. Puchniak's paper titled The Overlooked Reality of Shareholder Activism in China: Defying Western Expectations has been accepted for publication in the Harvard Business Law Review.
Publication: Journal of Corporation Law, vol. 50, no. 3
Professor Dan W. Puchniak's paper titled Climate-Related Shareholder Activism as Corporate Democracy: A Call to Reform ‘Acting in Concert’ Rules is published in the Journal of Corporation Law.
Publication: Reinventing Insolvency Law in Emerging Economies
Read our new book Reinventing Insolvency Law in Emerging Economies (Cambridge University Press)
King's Law Journal, Volume 35, Issue 1 (2024)
Read our Special Issue of King's Law Journal, Volume 35, Issue 1 (2024), containing eight articles, each exploring the theme of 'innovation and reform in the law of trusts'. (King's Law Journal)
Publication: Trusts and Private Wealth Management
Read our new book Trusts and Private Wealth Management: Developments and Directions (Cambridge University Press)