As Hong Kong railway operator MTR Corporation spreads its wings internationally, the legal team is facing a new set of compliance challenges. Jeremy Bennett talks to Elizabeth Broomhall about managing his team’s expanding remit and the fall-out from a serious derailment in the region

Jeremy Bennett is what you might call a typical Hong Kong expat. Having moved to the city from London in 1994 with a plan to stay for two years, he quickly took to its work-hard, play-hard lifestyle, and two decades later still finds himself there.