Competition
Law

The Drew Network Asia Competition Law Practice draws together the highly qualified and experienced dedicated competition law teams from three of the most recognised and reputable firms in the ASEAN region: Drew & Napier (Singapore), Makarim & Taira S. (Indonesia), Shearn Delamore & Co. (Malaysia) and Martinez Vergara & Gonzalez Sociedad (Philippines), and Tilleke & Gibbins (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam).

We pride ourselves on our responsiveness, practical and client-focused solutions, and providing clients with pragmatic and seamless legal responses across the ASEAN region.

We act for a wide variety of clients in a broad range of industries in regulated as well as non-regulated sectors.

We are proud to be trusted competition law advisors to foreign and domestic corporations as well as competition regulators. Significantly, our lawyers have been instrumental in the formulation of competition policies and laws in our respective jurisdictions and in ASEAN.

The Drew Network Asia Competition Law Practice offers a one-stop-shop in competition law solutions across the ASEAN region.

We regularly assist clients and possess extensive experience in a full range of contentious and non-contentious competition law work in the ASEAN region.

Our experience includes:

  • Competition advisory projects;
  • Defending competition law investigations and regulatory dawn raids and investigations;
  • Merger notifications and other notifications to competition authorities;
  • Conducting market studies;
  • Putting in place multi-jurisdictional compliance and dawn raid programmes;
  • Conducting competition law audits and risk management;
  • Competition litigation; and

Our network of multi-lingual competition lawyers enables us to provide our clients with a full range of competition law services requiring local legal language expertise, including competition law compliance training and audits, notifications to authorities, advisories and defending competition law infringements and investigations.  

With our network of leading competition law practitioners who possess intimate working knowledge of competition regulators and local markets in the ASEAN region, we are uniquely positioned to deliver results in each jurisdiction and work seamlessly across borders to advise and assist our clients on their transactions and in investigations where necessary.

Our competition lawyers are also active in various international fora including in events organised by the Global Competition Review (GCR), the Inter Pacific Bar Association (IPBA), ASIALAW, the American Bar Association (ABA) and the International Bar Association (IBA) Antitrust Committee.

Key Partners

Lim Chong Kin

Managing Director, Corporate & Finance / Head, Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) / Co-Head, Data Protection, Privacy & Cybersecurity / Co-Head, Competition Law & Regulatory /
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Dr Corinne Chew

Co-Head, Competition Law & Regulatory Practice / Director, Corporate & Finance
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Frederick Bonar Simanjuntak

Partner / Banking & Finance / Mergers & Acquisitions / Foreign Investment / Corporate and Commercial /
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Hilton King

Senior Foreign Legal Consultant / Mergers and Acquisitions / Investment and Corporate / Major Projects and Infrastructure / Energy and Mining / Real Estate / Construction / Employment / Transportation
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K. Shanti Mogan

Partner / Head, Arbitration & Mediation / Head, Competition Law & Antitrust / Dispute Resolution / Personal Data Protection & Privacy Laws / Regulatory Compliance & Enforcement / Technology, Media & Telco /
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Anand Raj

Partner / Head, Tax Disputes / Competition Law & Antitrust
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Gwyneth S. Ong

Partner, Corporate and Commercial Group / Co-Head, Capital Markets / Co-Head, Projects & Energy
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Janice L. Co

Partner / Co-Head, Real Estate & Construction / Co-Head, Corporate Services
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Kobkit Thienpreecha

Partner and Director, Corporate & Commercial
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Jay Cohen

Partner and Director, Cambodia
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Accolades

Singapore | Drew & Napier

Chambers Asia-Pacific
Competition/Antitrust 2025 – Band 2 for 3 consecutive years; Band 1 practice for 9 consecutive years

Lim Chong Kin – Band 2 for 3 consecutive years; Band 1 Leading Individual for 9 consecutive years
Dr Corinne Chew - Band 2; Band 3 Leading Individual for 4 consecutive years; Up & Coming Individual for 3 consecutive years (2018-2020)

  • "They have been extremely knowledgeable about antitrust matters and developments across the APAC region, which gives us a lot of confidence in their ability to handle complex work."
  • "We receive swift responses to our enquiries, and the needs of our business are taken into consideration when rendering advice."
  • “They are extremely responsive and offer pragmatic solutions.”
  • “Drew & Napier are very reliable, prompt and to the point. They have good commercial sense and are practical.”

The Asia Pacific Legal 500
Antitrust and Competition 2025 - Tier 1 practice for 9 consecutive years

Antitrust and Competition Team of the Year 20/21: Highly Commended

Lim Chong Kin - Leading Individual for 9 consecutive years
Dr Corinne Chew - Leading Individual for 9 consecutive years
Cavinder Bull, SC - Recommended Lawyer for 9 consecutive years
Chia Voon Jiet - Recommended Lawyer for 4 consecutive years

  • "Very practical, solution-oriented client focus. Strong category knowledge."
  • "Drew & Napier LLC’s antitrust and competition team is the oldest and largest dedicated competition law practice in Singapore. Their experience has grown in tandem with the development of both national and sectoral competition laws in Singapore."
  • "The competition team has wide industry knowledge, including a familiarity with the Competition Commission of Singapore."
  • “D&N possesses very strong competencies and expertise in the area of antitrust and competition. Sense of client-centricity is also strong and legal advice is pragmatic and business focused.”

Best Lawyers
Competition & Antitrust Law 2025

Cavinder Bull, SC - Leading Lawyer
Lim Chong Kin - Leading Lawyer
Dr Corinne Chew - Leading Lawyer; Named Lawyer of the Year for the 2024 edition

Indonesia | Makarim & Taira S.

asialaw Profiles
Competition & Antitrust 2023 - Highly Recommended Firm from 2017-2023  

  • “Makarim is a good firm – they provide timely and practical advice.”
  • “The advisory opinion has covered all the questions. The work was done in a timely manner. They are very professional.”
  • “The attorneys at the firm are responsive, helpful and knowledgeable. We have been very pleased with their assistance.”

Malaysia | Shearn Delamore & Co.

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
Antitrust and Competition 2025 - Top Tier for 8 consecutive years

Anand Raj - Hall of Fame for 2 consecutive years; Leading Individual for 6 consecutive years
K. Shanti Mogan - Next Generation Partner; Recommended Lawyer for 4 consecutive years
Lilien Wong - Next Generation Partner for 2 consecutive years; Recommended Lawyer for 4 consecutive years (2018 and 2021)

  • “The team is able to support in terms of knowledge, skills and practicality. Given the vast experience of the partners and team, they are able to balance it out between business needs and legal requirements when it comes to implementing the measures as prescribed by the regulations.”
  • “The Competition Law team at Shearn Delamore & Co. is an experienced, knowledgeable and industry-savvy team.”

asialaw Profiles
Competition/Antitrust 2024 – Highly Recommended for 4 consecutive years
Competition/Antitrust 2021 – Outstanding for 5 consecutive years and Highly Recommended for 3 consecutive years: 2014-2016

Anand Raj - Elite Practitioner for 4 consecutive years; Leading Lawyer for 5 consecutive years (2015-2019)

  • “Shearn had a sound reputation and has been in practice for a very long time, very established.” - Asialaw Profiles 2022

Chambers Asia-Pacific
Competition/Antitrust 2025 – Spotlight Table for 5 consecutive years

Anand Raj – Band 1 Leading Individual for 11 consecutive years

  • Anand Raj is a very competent lawyer, particularly in this area of law. He never fails to provide sound and strategic advice.”
  • Anand conducts in-depth discussions and proposes routes to take that are acceptable to the business and technically strong to win the case.”
  • “Anand Raj is a very strong competition attorney.”
  • well placed to advise clients on the implications of horizontal and vertical agreements, as well as abuse of dominance issues.

Philippines | MVGS 

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
Antitrust and Competition – Tier 3 firm in 2021

  • “MVGS advises groups of companies and banks on pre-notification consultations, compliance issues and requests for information by the PCC. The firm was also one of the first to be instructed to act in adjudication proceedings, and has previously been invited to participate in public consultations regarding the development of the legislative framework governing merger control procedures. Head of M&A Elmer Serrano regularly advises BDO Unibank, the largest bank in the country, on various competition matters.”

Asialaw Profiles
“Philippines Firm of the Year”  Nominee, Asialaw Awards 2021
Competition/Antitrust 2021 – Notable firm (new MVGS Practice Group)

Thailand | Tilleke & Gibbins

Chambers Asia Pacific
Competition & Antitrust 2023 – Band 2 for 2 consecutive years

Nutavit Sirkan – Associate to Watch

In-House Community
Antitrust/Competition Law Firm of the Year 2022 – Winner

Who’s Who Legal Awards
Thailand Firm of the Year 2022 – Winner

Vietnam | Tilleke & Gibbins

Leading publications and rating agencies have yet to introduce rankings in respect of Competition legal practice in Vietnam.

Tilleke & Gibbins is ranked in the following related practice areas.

Chambers Asia Pacific
Corporate/M&A 2023 – Band 4 for 5 consecutive years

Chuyen Huu Hong Le – Associate to Watch for 2 consecutive years
Kien Trung Trinh – Band 5 for 3 consecutive years

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
Corporate/M&A 2023 – Tier 2 for 16 consecutive years

IFLR 1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms
M&A 2024 – Tier 3 for 13 consecutive years

Cambodia | Tilleke & Gibbins

Leading publications and rating agencies have yet to introduce rankings in respect of Competition legal practice in Cambodia.

Tilleke & Gibbins is ranked in the following related practice areas.

Chambers Asia Pacific
General Business Law 2023 – Band 2 for 3 consecutive years

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
General Business Law 2023 – Tier 2 for 6 consecutive years

IFLR 1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms
Financial and Corporate 2024 – Tier 2 for 4 consecutive years

Laos | Tilleke & Gibbins

Leading publications and rating agencies have yet to introduce rankings in respect of Competition legal practice in Laos.

Tilleke & Gibbins is ranked in the following related practice areas.

Chambers Asia Pacific
General Business Law 2023 – Band 2 for 2 consecutive years

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
General Business Law 2023 – Tier 1 for 6 consecutive years

IFLR 1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms
Financial and Corporate 2024 – Tier 2 for 3 consecutive years

Myanmar | Tilleke & Gibbins

Leading publications and rating agencies have yet to introduce rankings in respect of Competition legal practice in Myanmar.

Tilleke & Gibbins is ranked in the following related practice areas.

Chambers Asia Pacific
General Business Law 2023 – Band 4 for 4 consecutive years

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
Corporate/M&A 2023 - Tier 2 for 8 consecutive years

IFLR 1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms
Financial and Corporate 2024 – Tier 3 for 6 consecutive years