About

Kenneth Ho was appointed general counsel for Swire Pacific Offshore in 2008. ‘The learning curve has been extremely steep but the past nine years with Swire have been the most rewarding of my professional life’. Since joining the group, Ho has built a compact and high-performing legal team which supports all of the group’s business units across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. ‘We set ourselves the objective of building and maintaining a department culture based on efficiency and practicality, so that our internal clients know they can depend on the legal team to deliver on time, every time’, Ho says. ‘Over the years, the legal function has evolved from a backroom support role to an integral function that is closely involved in the business at multiple levels, ranging from strategic decision-making, policy-setting and high-capex project analysis, to everyday tasks such as contract review and dispute management.’ Prior to joining Swire Pacific Offshore, Ho was in private practice with JTJB, a boutique marine litigation firm based in Singapore.