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‘Very technically strong and yet very practical,’ Hoon-Leng Phuak leads a small team overseeing UBS’s corporate function across Asia. ‘My role is to be a trusted advisor,’ he says. ‘But with full recognition of the fact that we need to be the ones telling the business to do things in the right way’. During his time in the role Phuak has helped to set up an onshore securities entity in Beijing. In his internal management of the team, he also implemented a range of standard documentation to enable lawyers to concentrate on more complex issues. ‘My main focus was to find out how to make our department more efficient,’ he says.