Chris Drake has been general counsel at finance portfolio manager Portigon for 15 years and currently manages a team of five lawyers across Japan, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Sydney. During...

‘It is cliché perhaps, but what I enjoy the most is definitively being so close to the business,’ Peter De Neef says on his role at GDF Suez. ‘I deliberately...

Currently heading the Asia legal function for Hays Plc, UK and Australia-qualified Chris Dancey’s career has moved full circle, having once worked as a legal recruitment consultant. He developed Hays’...

‘One of Logitech’s mottos is that “success is never final”,’ Judith Crosbie-Chen says. ‘I agree with that statement but also tell my team members that “on the Journey, successes need...

The Galileo Japan Trust is a $900m real estate investment trust listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, and a part of The Galileo Group, which is involved in numerous Australian...

‘As in-house counsel we can no longer content ourselves with just being good lawyers,’ says Elizabeth Colfer. ‘We need to invest time and energy, and factor into our legal analysis...

Former head of DFDL’s Laos offering, Brennan Coleman, is RMA Group’s first general counsel. The company specialises in assisting governments, aid agencies and other non-commercial enterprises with support in developing...

Justus Chua led on the legal aspects of Reckitt Benckiser’s de-merger and spin off of its pharmaceuticals arm into a stand-alone business. As the first in-house lawyer in Reckitt Benckiser...

Praised for his ‘drive’ and ‘strategic vision’, US-qualified Gunny Cho has a varied legal and entrepreneurial career history, including a deep involvement in Asia’s financial services sector. Formerly an attorney...

When Mitsuro Claire Chino became executive officer in 2013, she was not only Itochu’s youngest employee to do so, but the first woman to reach executive level in any of...