Announcement on Law Society of Hong Kong’s Vice Presidents

Mr. Amirali B. Nasir first joined the Law Society Council in 2005 and has since been involved in the work of Standing Committee on Practitioners Affairs, Standing Committee on Policy and Resources, Standing Committee on Compliance, Standing Committee on External Affairs, Belt and Road Committee, Guidance Committee, Consents Committee, Constitutional Affairs and Human Rights Committee, International Legal Affairs Committee, Innotech Committee, Working Party on Islamic Finance and various other committees. Mr. Nasir was elected as Vice-President of the Law Society in 2016 and re-elected in 2017.

Mr. Nasir is the founder of Nasirs Solicitors. His main areas of practice are litigation, company, commercial, islamic finance, property, trusts and notarial services.

Mr. Nasir was educated in, and first qualified as a solicitor, in London, UK. He moved to Hong Kong and first practised as a solicitor at a prominent local firm of solicitors after which he established the firm of AB Nasir & Co later renamed NASIRS. In addition to his practise as a Solicitor in Hong Kong, he is enrolled as a solicitor in England and Wales and as a Notary Public by faculty granted in Hong Kong and in England and Wales. Mr. Nasir is also a trustee of a local charitable trust serving the local community in all aspects of life. Mr. Nasir was appointed a Justice of the Peace in July 2005.

Mr. Gilchrist has been serving as a Law Society Council member since 2009. In addition to serving on Council, he has acted as the Chairman and/or been a member of various Law Society committees and working parties, including the Standing Committee on Standards and Development, the PIS Claims Committee, the Standing Committee on Practitioners Affairs, the Standing Committee on Policy and Resources, the Hong Kong Solicitors Indemnity Fund Board and the Board of the Academy of Law.

Mr. Gilchrist is a partner of Clifford Chance and has extensive experience in risk management and dispute resolution, advising large corporates, major institutions and high net worth individuals on banking, insurance, tax, contentious probate, directors’ duties and minority shareholders’ rights. He was born and brought up in Zimbabwe, and educated at Sevenoaks School and Cambridge University in the UK. He is qualified to practise as a solicitor in England and Wales (1991) and Hong Kong (1995).

Mr. Gilchrist is the Honorary Legal Advisor to the British Consulate General in Hong Kong. He also represents the Law Society in Statutory and Official Committees of public bodies, including the Civil Court Users’ Committee, the High Court Rules Committee and the Civil Justice Reform Monitoring Committee.

Mr. C.M. Chan first joined the Council in February 2016 and has since been involved in the work of Standing Committee on Compliance, Standing Committee on Practitioners Affairs, Standing Committee on Standards and Development, Public Policy Committee and various other committees. Mr. Chan was the founding chairman of In-House Lawyers Committee. He was nominated to represent the Law Society in the International Bar Association Corporate Social Responsibility Committee (2007 - 2012) and LAWASIA as Country Councilor (2016 - 2018). He currently serves on a number of statutory bodies, including the Board of Review (Inland Revenue) and the Committee on Provision of Space in the Legal Hub.

Mr. Chan is qualified to practise as a solicitor in Hong Kong (1997) and England and Wales (2002). He is also a Civil Celebrant, Registered Financial Planner, and Chartered Tax Advisor. Mr. Chan holds an LLM degree from London School of Economics, an MBA degree from the University of Oxford and an MPA degree from Harvard University.

Mr. Chan had practiced in a notable law firm, where he advised high net-worth clients and corporations in relation to their asset management, trust, succession and tax planning matters. Thereafter, he became a legal adviser of different Family Offices for prominent families. Mr. Chan is now a General Counsel of an investment company.