About

Bella Peck Lim Chhoa has spent five years as assistant director – corporate affairs, general counsel and company secretary at Hong Kong-based property company Hang Lung. In this role she has successfully combined technical legal knowledge and superb business acumen. Aside from legal matters, Chhoa is involved in company secretarial work, training and is even responsible overall for human resources issues. She is a key executive of the company and plays an important role in corporate governance and strategic decision making. Chhoa’s tenure with Hang Lung has seen the company grow exponentially, with workforce numbers more than doubling from 2,000 to almost 5000. To deal with this huge influx of new talent Chhoa devised and implemented improvements to Hang Lung’s management trainee program, a major boon to their onboarding process. A mark of her commitment to improvement of the legal profession as a whole and the esteem she is held in, Chhoa is active on the conference circuit and can often be found speaking on matters ranging from legal business to training and human resources processes. She held a variety of in-house roles prior to joining Hang Lung, including at fashion manufacturer Esprit Holdings, and holds both a law degree and an MBA.