Emmanuelle de Saint SeineRegional Legal Counsel, Kiabi Group

With 12+ years experience as private practice lawyer and in-house legal counsel and based in Hong Kong, Emmanuelle's specialties are Commercial, Corporate, Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics.

A solicitor in England and Wales and a qualified lawyer in France and Spain, Emmanuelle is a French native speaker, fluent in English and Spanish. Her experience in law firms and in-house helped me build the skills required in companies' environment to actively support their business decisions and commercial development whilst preempting legal challenges.

She is currently Regional Legal Counsel for the KIABI Group, an international garment retailer with over 10,000 employees globally, headquartered in Lille, with procurement operations and offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Dhaka, Istanbul, Delhi and Bangalore.

Her responsibilities include overseeing legal issues across the APAC offices’ different departments. She is supported by a legal counsel in Hong Kong, whom she has been managing whilst liaising extensively with the Group's other departments and senior management. In this position, she has been drafting, reviewing, negotiating and approving commercial agreements while ensuring companies' good corporate governance and appropriate transfer pricing framework. she has also striven to draft and streamline processes in place to ensure work efficiency and compliance.

For more than a year now, she has also been the Group key legal contact in relation to corporate social responsibility matters, ensuring proper legal monitoring and compliance and anticipating on business needs in view of expected CSR regulations.