Byron is the Founder and Managing Director of Xavier & Associates LLC. He has assisted clients on various matters throughout the region and coordinated multi-jurisdictional actions and programs.

Having spent time both as a practising trial lawyer and as regional General Counsel for a multi-national corporation, Byron has developed an in-depth understanding of how to blend legal solutions with commercial realities in order to help clients meet their business objectives.

After reading law at the National University of Singapore, Byron started out in private practice in 1999, where he managed contentious and non-contentious matters for international clients in the intellectual property and technology spheres in addition to handling general transactional matters. He also handled criminal prosecutions for copyright and trademark owners against pirates and counterfeiters, worked with trade associations for the global business and entertainment software industries, represented right collecting societies and participated in dialogues with government authorities on legislative amendments to intellectual property laws. Throughout his time in practice, Byron gained immense experience and insight on helping clients commercialise their IP assets.

In 2004, he left practice to join Epson Singapore Pte Ltd, the Southeast and South Asian headquarters for the Seiko Epson Corporation, as General Counsel. He established and led a legal team that expanded Epson’s legal coverage and infrastructure. This period saw him broaden his experience base to cover corporate and commercial legal work, lead and implement various compliance programs and manage and resolve contentious matters in numerous areas. Leveraging on his intellectual property expertise, he also put in place a multi-pronged program that enabled Epson to recover significant market share from illegitimate infringers throughout the region. As counsel to Epson’s senior management, he was frequently called upon to use his litigation background to provide advice on risk management and navigate complicated and ambiguous business environments to resolve intricate issues; as a team leader, he developed and managed a team that consistently delivered workable, efficient outcomes for business units, often within resource limitations.

Within the team, Byron is known as the strategist, the big-picture guy, the pragmatic optimist. A collaborator and a team player, he believes that knowing each client’s unique context allows him work best, drawing from a common culture, set of values and goals.

Byron has also trained numerous lawyers who have gone on to sterling careers in the legal field, whether in practice or as in-house counsel, believing that knowledge and experience are best preserved when they are passed on and used.

Byron has a broad range of interests, ranging from tennis and football (both American and o jogo bonito) to cinema and literature. A self-described repository of useless and unusual information, he started out as an avid coin collector and has since moved on to various other things, believing that they’ll either have some value someday or be of use to somebody.

Wan Li is an Associate Director at Xavier & Associates LLC. Her main area of practice is in corporate and commercial law, with a particular focus on intellectual property (IP) and information technology (IT) issues and transactions.

She graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) Second Class (Upper Division) Honours in 1998, and was called to the Singapore Bar in 1999. Thereafter, she practised at Allen & Gledhill LLP, starting out in IP litigation and enforcement and trademark registration before finding her niche in transactional IP/IT work as part of Allen & Gledhill’s Technology & Corporate Intellectual Property Practice Group. She has extensive experience with a broad range of IP and IT commercial transactions, including negotiating, drafting and advising on franchising, distributorship, technology transfer and licensing, IT outsourcing, e-commerce and internet banking transactions. Her natural meticulousness and eye for detail means that she is capable at and enjoys structuring legal documentation for her clients’ commercial transactions in an effective and comprehensive manner. She particularly thrives on the challenges associated with transactions involving new or emerging technologies.

Wan Li has acted on behalf of diverse clients including major telecommunications companies, stock exchanges, statutory boards, banks, airlines, publishers, local and international IT manufacturers and service providers, food and beverage companies, biotechnology companies and various other multi-national corporations (MNCs), small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and start-up companies. Her exposure to a variety of agreements and corporations of various sizes translates into means that clients benefit from the depth and breadth of her experience to bring value and insight to their transactions based on her understanding of their industries.

Known for her forthright and yet personable style, Wan Li is valued for being a clear communicator and strong analytical thinker. Clients appreciate her ability to walk them through complex legal issues and bring clarity to complicated transactions. She is focused on delivering practical legal solutions that make good business sense.

Outside of practice, Wan Li has a wide variety of interests. She enjoys running, baking, gaming and also reading up on the latest news and developments in education, neuroscience, the maker scene, electronics, computer programming for juniors and other aspects of geek culture.