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	Pohan Sofia
	Quek Ronnie
	Rajan Sanjiv
	Sathia J
	See Regina
	Seet Patricia
	Seow Steven
	Shiau Daren
	Sim Julie
	Soh Margaret
	Soh Yin Chuin
	Song Corina
	Song Su-Min

Daren Shiau

Telephone
+65 6890 7612

Facsimile
+65 6302 3037

E-mail:
daren.shiau@allenandgledhill.com

Daren Shiau is a Partner in Corporate & Commercial and is the Head of the Firm’s Competition & Antitrust Practice. Besides his general commercial practice, which includes private equity, trusts and labour law, Daren advises on competition law in both adversarial and non-adversarial capacities.

In 2004, Daren was seconded to the London and Brussels offices of Linklaters’ EU Competition Practice where he worked on European Commission and Office of Fair Trading matters. He presently sits on the Competition Roundtable of the Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS).

Daren is cited as the “most highly nominated practitioner” and “a real expert, according to rivals” in the Competition chapter of Who’s Who Legal: Singapore (2008). He is further recommended as a leading antitrust practitioner in The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers (2006 to 2010) and the Euromoney Guide to the World’s Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers (2006 to 2010).

In the first 30 months since the CCS’ merger control regime came into force, Daren has advised on more than three-quarters of the 17 merger filings lodged with the Commission. Daren’s deal book of groundbreaking competition transactions covers the CCS and sectoral regimes. These include:

•	successfully advising on Singapore’s first-ever share acquisition cleared under the merger control regime of the Competition Act (Chapter 50B): US$3.6 billion acquisition by Flextronics International Ltd of Solectron Corporation;
•	successfully advising on Singapore’s first three public take-overs of listed companies (Labroy/Dubai Drydocks, NCS/SCS, SATS/SFI) to be cleared pursuant to the CCS’ merger regime and the Security Industry Council’s Practice Statement on Merger Procedures;
•	successfully advising on Singapore’s first merger to be blocked and reviewed under the advanced Phase 2 of the CCS’ merger regime reserved for complex acquisitions: US$17.2 billion acquisition by The Thomson Corporation of Reuters Group Plc;
•	successfully advising the exclusive distributor of Agenda, the product at the centre of the first infringement decision by the CCS where downstream retailers received record fines; and
•	successfully advising a monopoly gas transporter in the first competition dispute to be heard by a tribunal convened under the Gas Act (Chapter 116A), an essential facilities and access rights matter.

Daren is also engaged in pioneering legislative and policy work such as the establishment of the merger control framework under the Airport Competition Code administered by the CAAS, and the redrafting of Singapore’s media competition framework, the Media Market Conduct Code, which regulates TV and print, to cover new media technologies.

Daren graduated with an LLB (Hons) degree at the National University of Singapore where he was placed yearly on the Law Faculty’s Dean’s List and received the NUSSU Gold Award. Since his graduation in 1996, he has received appointments to sit on several Government committees and statutory boards, including the Government’s Feedback Unit Supervisory Panel. He currently serves on the Board of Film Censors and is a District Councillor of the Central Singapore CDC.

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