About

Currently in charge of a ten-lawyer team, having been made general counsel and chief compliance officer for the region in April 2017, Patience Bin was a private practice lawyer specialising in white collar defence and regulatory compliance at Mayer Brown in Washington DC. Regarding her move to in-house legal work as having contributed to her becoming a ‘strategic commercial business partner and leader’, Bin lists her three main achievements since taking on her role with Avon as follows: ‘Acting as the leading legal advisor and negotiator for a cross-border M&A deal, including leading on-the-ground due diligence, agreements negotiations and drafting, and communications with the union, employee representatives, government agencies, and the press; helping design the sales channels of the company’s China business from legal, compliance, and commercial perspectives; and successfully leading a team of ten lawyers across seven Asia Pacific countries to provide exceptional legal and compliance advice to internal clients’.