Alternative Legal Service Providers - Asia-Pacific Region
Band 1
What the Team is Known For
NOVA8 is based in Singapore and has offices across the Asia-Pacific region, including in Malaysia and Hong Kong. Its services include flexible staffing, contract lifestyle management and managed services, and its clients include blue-chip corporates and international law firms.
Strengths
NOVA8 has a strong team with solid expertise across key legal areas. The lawyers demonstrate a good depth of knowledge. Their collaborative approach and responsiveness ensure clients receive well-considered advice when dealing with complex issues.
The main thing to highlight is bench strength. NOVA8 sent profiles at speed, so they have a strong bench, and the people were very good.
The practitioners have incredible knowledge of the market and client needs. They are fantastic at sourcing top tier secondees that never fail to impress clients.
Notable practitioners
Safa Zahedi is a highly experienced corporate lawyer and handles many of NOVA8's strategic mandates. His clients include significant financial services clients and he handles varied flexible legal staffing matters and managed services work across a range of APAC jurisdictions. He has additional capabilities assisting in the implementation of AI enabled optimisation solutions.
Safa Zahedi is very commercial and nimble. He is able to understand our needs and allocate resources in a short period of time.
Safa Zahedi is a trusted senior adviser who brings experience, sound judgement and a clear commercial perspective to our engagements.
Safa Zahedi brings deep market knowledge and a strategic perspective that adds significant value to the partnership. His judgement, network and commercial instincts make him a trusted senior contact in our collaboration on secondments and ALSP strategy.
Simon Bedford is a strong choice to handle a range of flexible legal staffing and managed services matters. His clients include significant asset managers who he represents across a range of APAC jurisdictions. He offers additional expertise in the implementation of AI tools in legal work.
Simon adds depth to NOVA8’s offering through his strong client delivery and technology-driven focus. His involvement has been an important part of ensuring that our experience has been consistently strong.
His focus on technology-enabled solutions and his understanding of the evolving ALSP landscape make him a strong and reliable partner.
Simon Bedford executes well, is responsive and provides quality service.
