About

Tricia Feng’s rise in the legal profession over a career spanning two decades is testament to her skill, work ethic and legal and commercial talent. Qualifying in 1999, Feng, a financial services specialist, joined Schroders Singapore in 2007, and was made head of legal for Singapore only a year later. In 2017 she was made head of legal for the whole of Southeast Asia, and is a key senior member of the Southeast Asian management team. Feng has worked together with the Southeast Asia business teams for more than a decade to establish and maintain Schroders’ market-leading positions in Singapore and Indonesia, and the offshore sectors of Malaysia and Thailand. She has also played a role in pivotal Asia-Pacific transactions, for example acquiring and establishing Schroders’ first private bank in Asia Pacific, establishing Schroders’ successful Indian partnership with Axis Bank, being part of Schroders’ first start-up investment in Asia Pacific (a minority stake in Weinvest) and establishing a strategic relationship with Maybank in Malaysia. In addition, Feng is the Asia Pacific legal lead for Schroders Asia Pacific infrastructure, IT and digital initiatives, and recently worked with the digital team on the successful launch of a Schroders chatbot, a first in the asset management industry in Asia. This ties in with her forward-thinking and technologically-focused strategic overview of the future of the legal industry. ‘Given the rate of change in technology, I truly believe that advances in technology today will bring fundamental shifts to the legal industry in the near future – not just further enabling legal processes but altering legal work itself. In 2017, I accepted the exciting challenge to make a step change in how we approach legal processes and am leading explorations on how we can leverage AI and robotics to drive game-changing improvements for the Schroders global legal function. I am very pleased that my team and I have managed to automate a number of legal processes and are looking forward to doing more in 2019’, she concludes.