About

Alix Grice has held a wide variety of in-house and private practice roles in the Asia Pacific region over 25 years, working at Microsoft, General Motors, Herbert Smith Freehills, Baker McKenzie and, most recently, BT. Grice was made head of legal for Southeast Asia in 2013, and then vice president regional counsel for Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific in January 2016. She is recognised as a standout counsel in the areas of corporate technology and intellectual property law, as well as for her extensive commercial experience in the Asia Pacific region. In her regional counsel roles at both BT and Microsoft she has managed large teams covering a wide geographic scope and received praise from nominators for her managerial work. Among the many highlights of her career, Grice is personally most proud of a corporate and social responsibility project she was engaged in while at Herbert Smith Freehills. Working alongside the National Museum of Australia, Grice helped to protect the intellectual property rights of Indigenous art, an initiative that was recognised with the prestigious Australian Business and the Arts Foundation Toyota Community Award. In her current role, Grice has worked to break down “silos”, decrease the isolation of a geographically distributed team, review and re-engineer legacy structures and leveraged a variety of alternative service providers to supplement the resources of the in-house team.