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  • Talented, resilient, erudite – few general counsel have proven their worth quite as conclusively as Citi Japan's general counsel, Akiko Yamahara.
  • When asked about the first thing that springs to mind in her long career as an in-house lawyer for Credit Suisse in Hong Kong, Patricia Sindel immediately recalls one particular encounter with a banker.
  • Aside from his undoubted seniority, Markus Diethelm's position on our list was secured by his involvement in high profile cases such as the 2007 World Trade Centre litigation. This case saw him successfully negotiate a multi-billion dollar settlement between a group of insurers and a developer of the World Trade Centre.
  • Vaishali Javeri is the natural choice to counsel the world's most successful dark pool and the world's only lit electronic communication network (ECN).
  • When General Electric (GE) asked Stephen Maloy to establish its Asia-Pacific legal division in 1983, the company had never had a lawyer in the region.
  • With nearly thirty years experience, Stuart Fishman is one of North America's most respected bankers' counsel. He's watched the market over many cycles and from the standpoint of a regulator, a law firm and in-house. Within JPMorgan Chase, he's sat on the issuer's side representing corporate functions including corporate treasury and capital planning, then worked on high grade debt private placements, and since 2002 has picked up the bank's high yield business.
  • Brad Gans' office is on the top floor of Citibank's UK headquarters in Canary Wharf, his ceiling-height windows offering views over swathes of London. From his desk, Gans can see The Shard emerging from its skirting of scaffolding, Blackfriars Bridge floating above a turgid Thames.
  • Whether attending to an enquiry in Europe or overseeing projects in Canada, Edith Shih is always immediately identified as the first point of contact. It is because she doesn't sleep, according Canning Fok, group managing director of Hutchison Whampoa.
  • Mark Harding always knew that he wanted to be a lawyer. While children may dream of being an astronaut or a firefighter when they grow up, it was the intellectual challenge of the law that attracted him from a young age. "Everybody told me that I argued enough to make a decent lawyer," he says.
  • As south-east Asia legal head at Standard Chartered, Ben Bowden has not just had a front-row seat for the Asian growth story. He has also played a starring role in his bank's progression from what was essentially a small Asia-focused currency house to the regional success story it is today.