Caroline Berube

Caroline Berube is the Managing Partner of HJM Asia Law, a boutique law firm with offices in China and Singapore. She is admitted to practice law in New York and Singapore, holds a BCL (civil law) and an LL.B. (common law) from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and studied at the National University of Singapore with a focus on Chinese law in 1998/1999. Caroline worked as a lawyer in Singapore, Bangkok, China and South Africa (China Africa desk) for British and Chinese firms and established her own firm in 2007. Based in Asia since 1998, Caroline represents SMEs, MNCs, foreign banks and private equity firms in the Asia Pacific region. She is an arbitrator approved by the Chinese European Arbitration Center (CEAC) and a foreign arbitrator appointed by the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC).

Caroline has been featured in numerous magazines and newspapers, including Bloomberg, the Straits Times, the Business Times, Les Affaires and La Presse and is a regular speaker at international conferences. Caroline was selected in 2015 as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Caroline is also the Co-Chair of the China Working Group of the International Bar Association (“IBA”), past officer of the IBA Intellectual Property Committee and was appointed as a IBA Legal Practice Development Officer from January 2019 to December 2022. Caroline has been involved as publication chair and Secretary General of the Inter Pacific Bar Association between 2010 and 2019. She is the author of the practical book "Doing Business in China" published by Lexis Nexis in French and English. A firm believer in entrepreneurship, Caroline set up her own international platform to work with young entrepreneurs between 16 and 25 years old: the Young E3 Entrepreneur Fund.