YOUR CHAMBER: PERSPECTIVES
Perspectives In this issue of Britain in Hong Kong, we check in with one of the Chamber’s Sterling Members to get a fresh perspective on our local businesses, and a peek into the personalities of our captains of industry.
Mun Yeow
Partner, Member of the Global Strategy Board, Clyde & Co How’s business? Now is a very exciting time for our firm in Hong Kong and across the APAC region. The Hong Kong office was opened in 1981, our first overseas office. Since then, we have opened, across the region, an office in Singapore, three offices in mainland China and four offices in Australia. The region is full of possibility for our firm. Hong Kong is strategically placed to capture the opportunities which come with the exponential growth in Asia, and particularly, mainland China. Hong Kong succeeds because it has stable and sound legal and governance systems. Despite the recent challenges with protests, and more recently the coronavirus, I am optimistic that Hong Kong will bounce back and continue to serve as an international finance centre and a gateway
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for capital flowing into mainland China for the foreseeable future.
What are your plans for the firm in the region this year? Our plans for Asia are to be one of the leading international law firms in the Greater Bay Area during the course of 2020, which dovetails the target set by the Central Committee for collaboration among the 11 cities. The Greater Bay Area will have a population of 70 million people and GDP of around US$1.5 trillion. The size of the economy will be close to Russia’s and larger than Australia’s. Hong Kong’s status as a financial centre and an international legal and dispute resolution centre is emphasised, and its leadership in aviation and ports sectors
