General Counsel and Company Secretary | First Pacific
Fiona Chiu
General Counsel and Company Secretary | First Pacific
Fiona is a Hong Kong-qualified lawyer with over 18 years of experience in legal, governance, and compliance roles in Hong Kong.
She joined First Pacific in May 2022 from Goldman Sachs, where she was an Executive Director in the Compliance Department, overseeing their Investment Banking Division’s mergers and acquisitions and equity and debt capital markets businesses in Asia Ex-Japan. Prior to that, Fiona held senior leadership roles in investment banking and corporate banking compliance at both JP Morgan and HSBC. In particular, Fiona built the compliance program for JP Morgan’s Asia Pacific Global Corporate Banking business from the ground up and pioneered a number of compliance initiatives among peer financial institutions.
Before transitioning into financial services compliance, Fiona was a seasoned corporate finance lawyer in private practice.
Fiona was appointed as a director on the board of the Hong Kong Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel in June 2023. She also co-chairs the Membership Engagement Committee and sits on the Sponsorship Committee of the same organisation. Fiona is also a council member of the Asia Chief Legal Officers’ Council, organised by The Conference Board, and volunteers as a mentor in The Women’s Foundation Mentoring Programme in Hong Kong.