Allen & Gledhill LLP

Competition & Antitrust, ESG & Public Policy

Co-Head of the Firm’s Competition & Antitrust Practice and ESG & Public Policy Practice

Elsa is Regional Co-Head of the Firm’s Competition & Foreign Investment Review Practice, and Co-Head of its ESG & Public Policy Practice. She regularly assists clients on complex antitrust matters, including merger control, global cartel and abuse of dominance investigations. Elsa’s ESG and public policy experience ranges from assisting clients to map out ESG trends and implications, policy drafting, 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.

In 2021, Elsa was cited for the third time in the Global Competition Review (GCR) Women in Antitrust survey as amongst the leading women globally recognised for their standout careers in antitrust. In 2020, GCR named Elsa as one of the world’s top 40 antitrust practitioners under the age of 40, and the only economist named in Asia, in its quadrennial 40 under 40 survey. She was also recognised amongst the 10 competition economists globally in GCR’s Women in Antitrust 2016: Economists. Elsa is the only economist in Asia cited as a Global Elite Thought Leader by Who’s Who Legal: Competition 2024.

Elsa was previously from the Ministry of Trade and Industry of 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).

English, Mandarin

Recipient of the Prime Minister’s Book Prize, graduated summa cum laude with a double degree in Economics and International Relations from Tufts University, Massachusetts, and was placed yearly on the Dean’s List. Holds a postgraduate degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an LL.M. with a specialisation in Competition Law.