Padraig Seif

Pádraig has been invovled with the Irish Chamber in Hong Kong since 2018, initially as treasurer and vice president, before being elected President in 2023. 

Pádraig is a German Rechtsanwalt, English Solicitor and Foreign Registered Lawyer with Boase Cohen & Collins Solicitors & Notaries as well as inhouse counsel to Swiss based Asset Manager OLY AG. He also is founder of Precious Metals Asia, a long established physical bullion trading house in Hong Kong. From 2019 to 2025 we also was director and responsible officer of Hong Kong based Asset Manager OLZ (Hong Kong) Limited with an unrestricted type 4 and type 9 license issued by the SFC in Hong Kong. 

Before moving to Hong Kong Padraig practiced law with international law firms in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. After nearly 5 years as foreign registered lawyer in Singapore he moved to Hong Kong in 2013 to build a multi-billion HKD physical precious metals trading house with a client base throughout the APAC region. Besides this he holds a number of advisory board positions with leading edge fin-techs.

Padraig continues to be a fully licensed German attorney and English solicitor, with degrees and research experience at Passau University (Germany), King's College London (United Kingdom) and St. Anne's College Oxford (United Kingdom). Outside of work you can find Padraig involved with the Irish community in Hong Kong, playing the occasional round of golf, or spending time on his farm in Indonesia.