Geeta Thakerar is a foreign attorney at Kim & Chang. She is a seasoned, experienced legal and compliance professional. She has over three decades of legal experience. She is a UK solicitor and was admitted in 1985. She holds a current practicing certificate for England and Wales issued by the Solicitors Regulation Authority under the Solicitors Act 1974.

Ms. Thakerar has been an independent consultant for Kim & Chang since 2017, becoming the resident director of Kim & Chang Pte. Ltd., our firm’s Singapore registered foreign law practice, since early 2020. 

Ms. Thakerar continues to work on a part-time basis for our firm. She also maintains her own consultancy, independent from our firm, doing voluntary work and adhoc project work.

She has spent over two and a half decades in-house. She has over two decades of experience in the pharmaceutical industry with GlaxoSmithKline, both in UK as well as in Singapore. Also, she worked two years in-house for fast moving consumer goods company, Kimberly Clark, in Singapore. In both roles she was the APAC regional legal and compliance head.

She is currently doing voluntary work for the Asia Pacific Medical Technology Association (the “APACMed”) as well as the Singapore Corporate Counsel Association (the “SCCA”) and is a co-convenor of its Well-Being Chapter. 
She is an active member of the APAC Legal & Compliance Pharma/Life Sciences Industry Group, and an Associate Member of the Singapore Academy of Law and Singapore Institute of Arbitrators respectively.

She has done adhoc project work and given strategic support to both in-house lawyers, compliance professionals and law firms largely on legal and compliance strategy, compliance and policy matters and client engagement and management. She is a seasoned coach and mentor for junior lawyers and young business executives.