Dan W. Puchniak

Dan W. Puchniak, BA (Manitoba), LLB (Victoria), LLM & LLD (Kyushu), Barrister & Solicitor (Ontario) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore where he teaches Comparative Corporate Law, Japanese Corporate Law and Governance and Singapore Company Law. Dan is the past recipient of numerous academic awards including the Jean and Joseph McCombe Memorial Prize for placing first in his Bachelor of Arts Degree and the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship to complete an LLM in International Economic and Business Law and an LLD at Kyushu University. Dan has published widely on comparative, Singapore and Japanese corporate law and governance and is regularly invited to present his scholarship and lecture at leading law schools in Japan, South Korea, China, Mongolia, Australia, the US and Canada. Dan is currently the ASEAN Convener for the Australian Network for Japanese Law and a member of the Editorial Board for the Max Planck Institute’s Journal of Japanese Law. His most recent working paper on shareholder litigation in Japan was selected for presentation at the 2010 Harvard-Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum. Prior to entering academia, Dan worked as a corporate commercial litigator at Torys LLP in Toronto, Canada.