Scott Clements

Practice Areas

Competition & Foreign Investment Review

Career

Scott’s experience spans more than 20 years in competition law, with 17 years in Singapore. He has extensive experience in relation to contentious and non-contentious competition law matters and was involved in the first set of appeals made to the Competition Appeal Board in respect of a cartel matter and in the appeal of the first ever abuse of dominance case.

Scott has assisted with some of the most complex cross-border merger and acquisitions transactions to be reviewed by the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (“CCCS”), and has assisted on multiple leniency filings and dawn raids.

Scott is qualified as an advocate and solicitor of Singapore, and a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.

Publications

Singapore chapter of ICLG Vertical Agreements and Dominant Firms 2024.

Singapore chapter of Lexology In-Depth: Public Competition Enforcement; Lexology In-Depth: Cartels and Leniency and Lexology In-Depth: Dominance and Monopolies (12th Ed) by Law Business Research.

Competition Appeal Board dismisses water feature maintenance contractor’s appeal against CCCS’s financial penalty for bid-rigging; CCCS unconditionally clears proposed acquisition by iNova Pharmaceuticals (Singapore) Pte. Limited of Mundipharma’s consumer healthcare business; CCCS consults on the proposed acquisition by ANA Holdings Inc of Nippon Cargo Airlines Co., Ltd; CCCS Issues Guidance Note for Environmental Sustainability Collaborations; Conditional Approval Given After CCCS Accepts Commitments for SIA, Air India and Vistara Airline Transactions; CCCS Consults on the Proposed Cooperation between Singapore Airlines Limited and PT Garuda Indonesia (Persero) Tbk; CCCS issues Proposed Infringement Decision against companies for bid-rigging tenders for interior fit-out construction services; Conditional Approval Given After the CCCS Accepts Commitments for Proposed Commercial Cooperation between SIA and Garuda; CCCS Clears Proposed Transaction by Green Esteel Pte Ltd of shares in HG Metal Manufacturing Limited; CCCS consults on the potential release of Qantas Airways and Emirates from capacity commitments on the Singapore-Brisbane and Singapore-Melbourne routes and CCCS penalises company and ex-director for rigging bids in 7th infringement decision involving bid-rigging conduct in Practical Law Competition Multi-jurisdictional e-mail by Practical Law.

Singapore chapter in Cartel Leniency Quick Compare Chart by Practical Law.

Singapore chapter in LIDC Contributions on Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition by Springer Media Group.

Professional Memberships

Member, IBA Working Group on Mergers.