Our Team

Helen is a Partner and Head of Employment, Asia at DLA Piper. Helen has been a lawyer for nearly 20 years, having previously worked in Hong Kong, New York and London advising clients on the full spectrum of contentious and non-contentious employment matters. She is heavily involved in her firm’s pro bono and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, including being involved in the firm’s international gender balance network, sitting on the Asia ESG committee and co-leading the firm’s international initiative on treating people fairly. 

Helen’s legal practice similarly involves working with employers to help them address key topics for their workforce across Asia around promoting mental wellbeing, diversity, implementing training and development and roll out of policies. Helen and her team also provide pro bono support to charities who are working in areas such as housing, asylum seekers, sustainability, human rights and LGBT+ issues.

Kishore is a director at Greater Asian Advisors Ltd., a professional services firm in Hong Kong where he focuses on helping North American companies enter the Greater China Markets.  Previously, he was a founding shareholder in the ICS group of companies, which were sold in 2012 to a Dutch based group.  During his 22 years at ICS, his responsibilities included the management of their trade and commercial services divisions, as well as providing advice to a number of the firm’s private clients on taxation, corporate structuring, accounting, regulatory and trust related matters.  He has also successfully assisted a broad range of overseas clients in their Greater China expansion strategies.  Prior to joining ICS, Kishore worked in the Leveraged Buyouts department at Citibank Canada and subsequently, in the Mergers & Acquisitions department at Burns Fry Limited.

Kishore currently sits on the Board of the Richard Ivey School of Business in Hong Kong and he is also an advisor to the CEO of Hospital Advisor Ltd., a HK based social enterprise.  Kishore is the past President of the Rotary Club of Hong Kong South and the former Chair of the Indian Resources Group.

Kishore has been involved with Community Business since its inception, and was Board Chair from then until August 2022.

Kishore holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario and a Bachelor’s degree from McMaster University.