Simon Guidecoq
Director, Global Solutions
ASIA
Corporate
Area of expertise
- FDI regulations
- Singapore and ASEAN markets
- Consultancy on international expansion
- Company formation, corporate governance, and compliance (Asia)
Responsibilities
Simon Guidecoq is a Director within Hawksford’s corporate global solutions team, leading the efforts to facilitate our clients’ international expansion.
The wide range of services he and his team can offer include: business setup and licensing, corporate secretarial, payroll and recruitment, accounting and tax reporting, and internationalisation research services.
With more than a decade of industry experience, Simon holds a PhD in economics and has been based in Singapore since 2012 – first as Financial Attache at the embassy of France in Singapore, then as CEO of the Singapore office of Healy Consultants Group, a company acquired by Hawksford in June 2023.
For more than ten years, Simon and his team have supported multiple companies of various sizes, helping them to expand their footprint across APAC, EMEA, and the Americas.
Qualifications and memberships
- PhD in Economics
Notable achievements
- Managed the international expansion of a leading listed logistics USA multinational corporation into ten Asian countries simultaneously
- Assisted a leading Indian multinational restaurant aggregator and food delivery company to expand their footprint to Vietnam
- Assisted multiple multinational corporations and startups to setup subsidiaries in virtually all regions in the world
- Simon is a proud father of two children; he enjoys taking them for walks around Singapore on the weekends