Ms Elsa Chen > Allen & Gledhill LLP > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile
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Ms Elsa Chen
Work Department
Competition & Antitrust, ESG & Public Policy
Position
Co-Head of the Firm’s Competition & Antitrust Practice and ESG & Public Policy Practice
Career
Elsa is Regional Co-Head of the Firm’s Competition & Antitrust Practice, and Co-Head of its ESG & Public Policy Practice. She regularly assists clients on complex antitrust matters, including merger control, global cartel and abuse of dominance investigations. Elsa’s ESG and public policy experience ranges from assisting clients to map out ESG trends and implications, policy drafting, advocacy, and assisting on legislative changes.
In 2021, Elsa was cited for the third time in the Global Competition Review (GCR) Women in Antitrust survey as amongst the leading women globally recognised for their standout careers in antitrust. In 2020, GCR named Elsa as one of the world’s top 40 antitrust practitioners under the age of 40, and the only economist named in Asia, in its quadrennial 40 under 40 survey. She was also recognised amongst the 10 competition economists globally in GCR’s Women in Antitrust 2016: Economists. She is the only economist cited as a Thought Leader in Asia and Singapore by Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders: Competition 2020 to 2022.
Elsa was previously from the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore, and was also a pioneer member of the Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS), now known as the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS).
Languages
English, Mandarin
Education
Recipient of the Prime Minister’s Book Prize, graduated summa cum laude with a double degree in Economics and International Relations from Tufts University, Massachusetts, and was placed yearly on the Dean’s List. Holds a postgraduate degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an LL.M. with a specialisation in Competition Law.
Lawyer Rankings
Singapore > Antitrust and competition: local firms
Allen & Gledhill LLP is a preeminent firm when it comes to multi-jurisdictional merger control and foreign direct investment advice, servicing numerous high-profile domestic and international clients in their filings outside of Singapore, including jurisdictions throughout the Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. Regional joint head Daren Shiau is a renowned competition law specialist, covering the gamut of antitrust litigation spanning international cartels, monopolies and dominance, and global merger control. Co-head Elsa Chen is also highly regarded in these areas and is the lead partner when advising clients on the antitrust aspects of ESG collaborations, sustainability-focused transactions and greenwashing. Scott Clements is another experienced contact in the team, having regularly assisted clients during dawn raids and on multiple leniency filings made to the CCCS.
Lawyer Rankings
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