November 10, 2023
On the changing role of a General Counsel Your Career Journey Has Traversed Multiple Countries With Roles In-house As Well As Private Practice. Can You Tell Us About Your Journey So Far? I am currently the General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer of TLC Industries and was hired as part of Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s investment in TLC in March 2022. My expertise is in construction projects, governance controls and turnaround management. TLC is a property developer with a specialised expertise in sustainable modular construction, operating across the Asia-Pacific. I am also responsible for delivering the group’s compliance program, the core focus of which is on corporate governance, anti-bribery/anti-corruption controls, data protection, diversity/inclusion, and supply chain controls. GCs are no longer limited to a reactive role and often find themselves in the centre of disruption management Prior to joining TLC, I worked at Norton Rose LLP in London and Abu Dhabi. I then moved in-house and was Corporate Counsel at Jacobs Engineering Group in Singapore, Mumbai, and Hong Kong. Most recently, I served as the General Counsel, Head of Compliance and Director of Standard Chartered PE’s portfolio company Maxpower Group (as well as the Maxpower-Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Joint Venture) in Singapore, Jakarta and Rangoon. I am a former Visiting Scholar at Duke Law School in North Carolina and engaged, at both Duke and the University of Fribourg Law School in Switzerland, in advanced research on why compliance programs fail. Being In The Industry As Long Have You Have, What Has Been Your Experience Of The Evolving Nature Of The General Counsel Role Over The Last Decade? GCs play...