Robert Chen
Senior Legal Counsel
Monoova
I am a fresh in-house lawyer at Monoova by day, muay thai kickboxer by night, and freediver on the weekend. My life motto is "life is all about the stories you can tell", and I'm still collecting stories. I finished high school without a clue what to do with my career, completed a Bachelor of International Studies to travel the world, then became a personal trainer.
I then discovered my brain and following a series of unfortunate events, started studying a Juris Doctor. Graduating with Honours, I did my clerkship, graduate program and formative years at Clyde & Co before moving to HWLE in a front-end construction role. Scarred, I took a short stint at LG Electronics before realising I had more to learn in private practice. I found myself in LegalVision's commercial team where I developed an aptitude for technology clientele and rode the crypto bull run, built a crypto practice before landing myself in financial services law out of all places. Now, I am a legal counsel at Monoova and am loving the work and the juncture we find ourselves at. We live in exciting times, on the precipice of myriad overdue regulatory reforms.