Daren Shiau

Practice Areas

Competition & Antitrust

Career

Daren Shiau, BBM, PBM, is a leading regional competition law specialist in ASEAN whose practice involves antitrust litigation, international cartels, foreign investment screening and global merger control. He is Co-Head of the Firm’s Corporate Department, and Regional Co-Head of its Firm’s Competition & Foreign Investment Review Practice.

A pioneering antitrust specialist in Singapore and the region, Daren has been globally recognised as the senior statesman of the Singapore competition bar.

Chambers and Partners cites Daren as “Singapore’s top competition lawyer”, and he is the first and only Singapore lawyer to be recognised by the journal as “an Eminent Practitioner” in the area of Singapore competition law.

Daren is also the only lawyer in Singapore currently recognised by Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) as a Global Elite Thought Leader.

Daren 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.

Professional Memberships

Singapore Institute of Legal Education:

• Principal Examiner (Competition Law), Singapore Bar Examinations

• Principal Examiner (Competition Law), Foreign Practitioners Examinations

International Competition Network:

• Singapore’s first appointed Non-Governmental Adviser to the CCCS

ASEAN Experts Group on Competition:

• Commissioned Trainer

Publications

Over 400 articles on Competition Law

Most recent:

• Cartels and Leniency 2024 (Singapore chapter), Lexology

• Vertical Agreements & Dominant Firms 2024 (Singapore chapter), Global Legal

• Public Competition Enforcement 2024 (Singapore chapter), Lexology

• Global Legal Insights: Merger Control (Indonesia chapter), Global Legal

Personal

District Councillor of the Central Singapore District (since 2009)

National Civilian Orders:

• Public Service Medal (2016)

• and the Public Service Star (2022)

Languages Spoken

English; Mandarin