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Shook Lin & Bok LLP Offices
1 ROBINSON ROAD
#18-00 AIA TOWER
SINGAPORE 048542
Singapore
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Mr Eric Chan
Work Department
Banking & Finance; Environmental, Social and Governance; Financial Services Regulatory
Position
Eric Chan heads the financial services regulation practice. His work includes advising and helping banks and other financial institutions to understand and comply with Singapore financial regulatory rules and regulations. He works with financial institutions new to the Singapore market in helping them secure the requisite approvals, authorisations or exemptions, as well as existing financial institutions in relation to ongoing compliance issues. Eric’s work covers the full spectrum of the financial services sector in Singapore, and he works regularly with banks, financial advisers, insurers and insurance brokers, fund managers, securities brokers and other intermediaries.
Eric is also extensively involved in advising various financial institutions as well as corporate clients on privacy and personal data protection, as well as anti-bribery controls.
Eric started private practice doing general commercial and corporate litigation. He later joined the Monetary Authority of Singapore as in-house counsel, where he provided legal support and advice on various regulatory initiatives. During this time, Eric also concurrently taught banking law as an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore. In 2003, Eric was seconded from the Monetary Authority of Singapore to the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, as a research fellow where he wrote a paper on payment systems law. After his stint, he re-joined the Monetary Authority of Singapore MAS as Head of International & Regional Relations where he led a policy team working on international central banking issues, including implementation of various international regulatory standards within Singapore. In 2006, Eric joined American Express Bank and served as the Regional Director for Compliance & Ethics responsible for compliance matters across the Asia-Pacific region. Eric returned to legal practice in 2008 and was until 2014, a director in another leading Singapore law firm where he had helped to set up and lead their financial services regulation practice.
Languages
English; Mandarin
Education
Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore, 1993
LLM, University College of London, 1998
LLB (Hons), National University of Singapore, 1992
Lawyer Rankings
Singapore > Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms
Shook Lin & Bok LLP combines expertise in fintech and financial services regulation with payment services regulation and data privacy. Fintech and business conduct requirements, licensing issues and anti-money laundering and sanctions advice are core pillars of the team’s financial services work. Andrea Ng heads up the fintech side of the practice and is skilled in advising on the regulatory regime surrounding token offerings. Eric Chan‘s regulatory practice extends to assisting financial institutions new to the Singapore market with obtaining the necessary approvals, authorisations or exemptions.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution: local firms
- Investment funds: local firms
- Private wealth and family law – local firms
- Real estate: local firms
- Restructuring and insolvency: local firms
- Capital markets: equity and debt: local firms
- Corporate and M&A: local firms
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms
- Labour and employment: local firms
- Start-up and venture capital – Local firms
- TMT: local firms
- International arbitration