PacLegal was founded in 1999, and has been serving Hong Kong's legal and business community ever since. Our current clientele includes major law firms, banks and hotels, as well as multinationals in the fields of telecommunications, property development, transportation, electronics and energy.

PacLegal has a team of legal translators who are all rich in professional knowledge and experience and are particularly adept at coping with technicalities in translation, especially where legal and sophisticated commercial documents are involved. Our managing director, Ms. Bridget Chi, is a US-qualified lawyer with 15 years' experience in Hong Kong working on PRC foreign direct investment transactions and other commercial and regulatory matters in Hong Kong and China. Our executive manager, Ms. Colleen Lau, has been a professional legal translator and editor for 13 years. PacLegal is capable of providing you with reliable and professional translations, done as well as a discerning client could desire.

Bridget Chi graduated from the University of Texas-Austin in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in Asian Studies and obtained her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center (Washington, D.C.) in 1990. She is a lawyer qualified in California with experience practicing law in the US as well as Hong Kong. Ms. Chi is a native English speaker, is fluent in Mandarin, and is familiar with both the simplified and traditional Chinese writing system.

In 1990, Ms. Chi commenced her legal career with the Los Angeles office of Rogers & Wells. In 1993, she joined the Hong Kong practice of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler. In 1997, she served as legal editor at Asia Law & Practice, Ltd. for its China publications including China Law & Practice and the China Law Reference Service and also began providing private legal consulting and translation services to a variety of Hong Kong-based clients.

In 1999, Ms. Chi founded Pacific Legal Translations Limited.

Colleen Lau graduated from the City University of Hong Kong in 1994 with a higher diploma in Translation and Interpretation and further obtained her master's degree in Applied Linguistics in the UK from the University of York in 2001.

Upon graduation in 1994, Ms. Lau joined Asia Law & Practice, Ltd. as the editor and translator for its periodical China Law & Practice and for various books on China by the same publisher, including Establishing A Representative Office in China and The Encyclopedia of China Law. In 1997, she joined the Hong Kong office of Allen & Overy as a legal translator, providing translation services for professionals within the firm as well as clients of the firm. During the period between 2000 and 2002, Ms. Lau worked as a legal translator for a number of professional firms including Asia Information Associates Limited and Deacons. In addition, she also began providing translation services to Enlighten Hong Kong, a registered charitable organization for people with epilepsy, and to the Hong Kong office of Financial Times, a leading financial publisher in the UK.

Ms. Lau was born in Hong Kong and is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.