About

A highly experienced legal professional with particular skill in negotiation, risk avoidance and management, Regina Chan has been with her current employer, tech and communications company Viavi Solutions (formerly JDSU), for almost a decade. Chan was appointed senior legal director after ‘facilitating… expanding and growing [the] business in [the] Asia Pacific region, achieving and exceeding [the] company’s goal of revenue share’ Chan was then promoted to senior director and legal lead of Viavi following the spin-off of its communications and commercial optical product division and subsequent restructuring. In this spin-off and restructuring process, Chan was ‘responsible for transactional matters in Asia incorporating new entities and effecting business transfers including employees and assets in an unusually tight timeframe’. She is the founding member of the company’s Asia Council, which aims at ‘promoting branding and incorporating strong Asia cultural awareness into execution and achievement of company strategy’. During her career path, Chan points to managing the challenges from workers, an often undesirable by-product of divestiture of plants and businesses for successfully completing any company restructuring, as evidence of her crisis management abilities. As well as being regional legal lead for the company, she has also had a major impact on the overall company’s operations. Chan says: ‘I pioneered the global compliance program for channel partner selection processes in view of the increased awareness on anti-corruption practices including setting up the channel partner due diligence programs in 2008. Most importantly, I also rolled out in-class training to employees in different countries to raise awareness of the regulatory requirements’. Chan believes that, for all regional in-house counsel, ‘it is important to know and understand the business direction of the company, to be sure that resources are aligned to support the growth of the company’ in the most appropriate manner. She also emphasises that ‘it is always good to be engaged earlier on in the cycle rather than later’.