Daren Shiau

Practice Areas

Competition & Antitrust; Corporate & Commercial

Career

Daren Shiau, BBM, PBM, is Co-Head of the Firm’s Corporate & Commercial Department, and is concurrently its Regional Co-Head of Competition & Antitrust.

A leading regional competition law specialist, he has been referred to as Singapore’s top competition lawyer and senior stateman of the Singapore competition bar. He is the only Singapore competition lawyer ranked an Eminent Practitioner by Chambers.

Daren’s deal book of ground-breaking transaction practice covers antitrust litigation, international cartels, monopolies and dominance, and global merger control.

He has been a lead advisor in a predominant majority of Singapore’s merger control cases (including the majority of all complex Phase 2 Reviews), successfully represented appellants in a watershed Competition Appeal Board matter which overtured the Singapore competition agency’s decision on liability and successfully defended parties in 100% of Singapore’s international cartel decisions to-date.

He is District Councillor of the Central Singapore District. For his contributions to the nation, Daren was conferred the Public Service Medal (Pingat Bakti Masyarakat) in 2016, and the Public Service Star (Bintang Bakti Masyarakat) in 2022.

Professional Memberships

Singapore’s first appointed non-governmental advisor at the International Competition Network. Commissioned trainer of the high-level ASEAN Experts Group on Competition. Principal Examiner on competition law for the Singapore Institute of Legal Education’s Foreign Practitioners Examinations, and the Singapore Bar Examinations.