About

Chan Hoe leads the legal team of six at Toyota Motor Asia Pacific, the regional headquarters in Asia for the marketing and sales functions of the automobile manufacturer. This office holds the regional legal function and operates as the Asia Legal Hub with a regional coverage of 10 countries in Asean, along with Pakistan and India. To cope with this geographic diversity Hoe has appointed a network of law firms in each country of interest and has successfully implemented a personnel exchange program to increase communication and to act as a ‘foreign desk’ in the Singapore office. After six years in private practice, spent at Rodyk & Davidsons (now renamed Dentons Rodyk) and Rajah & Tann Asia, Hoe moved to consumer electronics company Razer. ‘It was a great place to cut my teeth on the in-house experience’, says Hoe. ‘[Razer] was a very small company at that point – about 30 people – and [the role] made me very quickly learn the entire gamut of legal issues a small company could, and sometimes did, face’. In 2008 he joined Toyota Motor Asia Pacific as a mid-level manager. Going from a small company to one of the largest companies in the world has given him a very broad-based and essential understanding of the legal problem a business can face. He became general manager of the legal department in 2014.