Gerald Singham is the Global Vice-Chair & ASEAN CEO at Dentons. He is also a senior partner in the Corporate practice group, and Co-Head of the Competition & Antitrust practice. He has extensive experience advising domestic and multi-national clients from a broad range of industries on competition law matters. He deals with all aspects of competition law including merger clearance/notifications, cartel investigations, dawn raids, leniency applications and reviewing and advising on competition restrictive practices and sectoral competition laws.
Gerald also regularly conducts competition law compliance seminars and competition law audits, and sits on the competition law roundtable of the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (“CCCS”). Gerald’s other areas include a broad range of corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, foreign direct investments and cross-border transactions.
- Acted as Singapore counsel to Flipkart Private Limited in a US$16billion acquisition. This deal has won several Deal of the Year awards.
- Acted as Singapore counsel to Panasonic Corporation in its successful leniency application to CCCS in respect of the supply and distribution of capacitors in Singapore. The total financial penalties imposed on the investigated parties were S$19.5million. Panasoic Corporate received full immunity.
- Advised leading Japanese car manufacturer on various competition law issues including distributorship/dealership arrangements, retail pricing policies and competitive restraints.
- Competition
- M&A
- Automotive
- Banking
- Consumer goods and services
- Healthcare
- Oil and gas
- England & Wales
- Singapore
- Board Member, Casino Regulatory Authority
- Vice-Chairman, National Council on Problem Gambling
- Chairman, National Crime Prevention Council
- Resource Panel Member, Government Parliamentary Committee for Defence and Foreign Affairs
- Military Court of Appeal
- LLB (Hons), University of London, (1985)
- LLM, University of London, (1987)