About

From her base in Singapore, vice president and chief international counsel Lisa Mather heads the international legal team of PayPal, the US Fortune 300 company and revolutionary online payment platform. Key figures in her team that cover Southeast Asia include senior director, associate general counsel and head of legal for Asia Pacific, Andrew Ho as well as Daniel Teo who recently joined as senior legal counsel for Southeast Asia. Mather says, ‘The team supports business units which are operating in highly regulated, economically varied and politically diverse environments around the globe. It has the expertise and track record of navigating all of the complexity associated with these environments with the utmost efficiency and effectiveness, which in turn forms a very important part of PayPal’s competitive advantage. The team’s collective international fintech legal expertise, its practical value and impact is truly unique within the legal profession’. Mather’s team regularly support the business in bringing new digital financial products and features to market across the globe including Southeast Asia which requires a unique, detailed level of understanding of PayPal’s business and the applicable law across multiple jurisdictions. Mather says, ‘this level of practical legal expertise does not exist outside the team. You can’t readily buy “off the shelf” the scale and scope of legal and practical insights and solutions for fintech which are consistently delivered by this team’.