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Daren Shiau, PBM, is Regional Co-Head of Competition & Antitrust at Allen & Gledhill. His pioneering expertise dates back to when he had been cited as the "most highly nominated practitioner", and "a real expert according to rivals", in the inaugural Competition chapter of Who’s Who Legal: Singapore. For his unparalleled antitrust experience in South-east Asia, Daren is recognised in the tier of Most Highly Regarded in Who's Who Legal: Southeast Asia in which he is named as "the number one name in Singapore" due to his "stellar reputation". Currently ranked as a Global Elite Thought Leader (Asia-Pacific) by Who's Who Legal: Competition, Daren is "really well-known" for his "broad expertise". He is named as "Singapore's top competition lawyer", ranked as a "star performer" by Chambers Asia-Pacific. Daren is teh first and only Singapore competition lawyer to be ranked an Eminent Practitioner by Chambers. Before he turned 40 in 2012, Daren was named by Global Competition Review in its 40 Under Forty survey, and is the only South-east Asian lawyer in the history of the list. Daren has been recommended as a leading practitioner in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, and Euromoney Guide to the World's Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers. His deal book of ground-breaking competition transactions, which is "market-leading", covers general antitrust as well as sectoral regimes such as banking and insurance, media and telecommunications, electricity and gas, and airports. Daren is Singapore’s first-ever appointed non-governmental advisor to the CCCS at the International Competition Network (ICN). A commissioned trainer of the high-level ASEAN Experts Group on Competition (AEGC), Daren is also competition law Principal Examiner for both Singapore's Bar Examinations, and its Foreign Practitioner entry qualifications. He has advised successfully on 100% of Singapore's international cartel decisions (successful amnesty applicant (freight forwarding), and successful leniency applicants (ball bearings, and aluminium electrolytic capacitors) to CCCS’ first three global cartel reviews, on the first dominance appeal to the Competition Appeal Board (ticketing), and a predominant majority of Singapore's merger control cases, including Grab/Uber, Siemens/Alstom Alstom/Bombardier, Thomson/Reuters, Holcim/Lafarge, Johnson & Johnson/Synthes, Volkswagen/MAN, Western Digital/SanDisk, GlobalWafers/Siltronic. Analog/Maxim, SK Hynix/Intel, AMD/Xilinx, Thermo Fisher/PPD, Glencore/Chemoil, Nippon Steel/Sumitomo Metal, Hyundai/Daewoo, and SIA/Airbus . (Source: A&G web)