Elsa Chen 陈伟芬

合伙人（首席经济师）PARTNER (CHIEF ECONOMIST)

陈伟芬是本所竞争与外国投资审查业务部的区域联席主管，同时担任环境、社会与公司治理（ESG）与公共政策业务部的联席主管。

Elsa is Regional Co-Head of the Firm’s Competition & Foreign Investment Review Practice, and Co-Head of its ESG & Public Policy Practice.

陈伟芬常协助客户处理新加坡及其他地区复杂的反垄断和外国投资审查事务，包括合并控制、全球卡特尔和滥用支配地位调查。她的工作经验涵盖从战略制定、申报陈述到承诺谈判的全流程，成功协助客户在新加坡境内外获取并购审查及外商投资批准。

She regularly assists clients on complex antitrust and foreign investments review matters in Singapore and beyond, including merger control, global cartel and abuse of dominance investigations. Her experience ranges from strategy and advocacy in submissions to negotiation of commitments to obtain merger control and foreign investment approvals in and outside of Singapore.

自新加坡2024年实施国家安全投资审查制度（《2024年重大投资审查法》及《2024年交通领域（关键企业）法》）以来，她已为包括跨国企业、新加坡财团、私募基金及对冲基金在内的各类指定与非指定实体及投资者提供法律服务，业务范围涵盖航空、银行、消费品、国防、金融服务、保险、物流、制造、石化、港口运营、房地产、科技、电信及运输等多个行业，具体包括制度合规咨询、监管机构沟通以及获取必要审批等全流程服务。

Since the inception of Singapore’s national security investment screening regime in 2024 (the Significant Investments Review Act 2024, and the Transport Sector (Critical Firms) Act 2024), she has advised designated and non-designated entities, and investors, including multinational corporations, Singapore conglomerates, private equity firms and hedge funds, across a wide spectrum of sectors, including aviation, banking, consumer products, defence, financial services, insurance, logistics, manufacturing, petrochemicals, port operations, real estate, technology, telecommunications, and transportation, on compliance with the regimes, engagement with the regulators, and securing the requisite approvals.

陈伟芬是亚洲唯一获评《Lexology指数：2024年竞争法领域思想领袖》“全球精英思想领袖”的经济学家。《Lexology指数》同时评价她为“新加坡并购审查领域的顶尖实务专家”、“新加坡市场的领军人物”，并盛赞其“分析务实”、“见解独到”、“能以简明易懂的方式阐释专业观点”。《法律500强》也指出她“经验丰富”、“善于精准解答客户疑问，并能审慎细致地处理复杂问题”。其“凭借经济学家背景为竞争法事务带来的全新视角”亦广受赞誉。

Elsa is the only economist in Asia cited as a Global Elite Thought Leader by Lexology Index: Thought Leaders: Competition 2024. She is also noted by Lexology Index to be “the top merger control practitioner in Singapore”, “a leading name in the Singaporean market” and praised for her “analytical and practical approach”, “intelligent and insightful”, and “able to provide her views in concise and readily understood manner”. The Legal 500 also notes that Elsa has a “wealth of experience”, and is “excellent in addressing client’s questions and good at handling complex issues with care and sensitivity”. She has also been lauded for bringing “a fresh perspective on competition matters from her economist background”.

陈伟芬在ESG与公共政策而言领域的经验包括协助客户应对ESG趋势及影响、编制可持续发展报告、制定行为准则、开展政策倡导，以及协助客户适应法规变更。此外，她还经常就ESG事项涉及的反垄断、消费者保护及公共政策问题为客户提供支持，包括合作协议审查、并购控制合规，以及应对“漂绿”指控等全方位法律服务。

Elsa’s ESG and public policy experience ranges from assisting clients on ESG trends and implications, sustainability reporting, codes of conduct, advocacy, and assisting on legislative changes. Elsa also regularly assists clients on the antitrust, consumer protection and public policy aspects of ESG matters, including collaboration agreements, merger control, and greenwashing claims.

2007年，陈伟芬加入本所。她曾任职于新加坡贸易与工业部（负责监督新加坡的竞争和重大投资审查立法），也是新加坡竞争委员会（CCS）（现称为新加坡竞争与消费者委员会（CCCS））的创始成员。

Elsa joined the Firm in 2007. She was previously from the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore, which oversees competition and the significant investments review legislation in 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).

代表性交易

• 经申报的交易项目总额近8000亿新元，涵盖向CCCS申报的所有公开收购案，并创下成功推翻该委员会首例（亦是迄今唯一一例）临时侵权裁定的先例（Greif/GEP）。

Deal book of notified transactions with total value close to S$800 billion, including every public takeover notified to the CCCS, and the first and only Provisional Infringement Decision of CCCS to be successfully overturned (Greif/GEP).

• 参与CCCS近90%需附加承诺条件的复杂并购审查案件，其中包括：首例涉及承诺条款的外资企业间并购案（Thomson/Reuters），以及CCCS首个要求本地化承诺的附条件并购许可案（SEEK/JobStreet）。

Assisted on close to 90 per cent. of complex CCCS merger reviews requiring commitments, including the first foreign-to-foreign merger with commitments (Thomson/Reuters), and the first CCCS conditional merger clearance requiring local commitments (SEEK/JobStreet).

• 协助起草立法、准则、政策和监管制度，包括《机场竞争准则》的合并控制框架、《媒体市场行为准则》以及电力和天然气市场竞争法经济方面的规定。

Assisted on drafting of legislation, codes, policies and regulatory regimes, including the merger control framework for the Airport Competition Code, the Media Market Conduct Code, and economic aspects of competition law in the electricity and gas markets.