Drew & Napier LLC

Artificial Intelligence and Digital Trust; Competition Law & Regulatory Practice; Data Protection, Privacy & Cybersecurity; Telecommunications, Media & Technology

Managing Director, Corporate & Finance

Head, Telecommunications, Media & Technology

Co-Head, Data Protection, Privacy & Cybersecurity

Co-Head, Competition Law & Regulatory Practice

Chong Kin is the Managing Director of Drew & Napier LLC’s Corporate & Finance department. He heads the Telecommunications, Media & Technology (TMT) Practice, and co-heads the Data Protection, Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice and Competition Law & Regulatory Practice.

Chong Kin played a key role in the liberalisation of the telecommunications, media and postal industries in Singapore. Since 1999, he routinely advises the sectoral regulators on liberalisation, market access, licensing, competition regulation, merger reviews and enforcement issues, including successfully defending the regulators in many Ministerial appeals. He was an early pioneer in the practice of competition laws in Singapore, through drafting of the competition frameworks that continue to govern the telecoms, media and postal sectors today. Chong Kin is also a pioneer in the practice of data protection, being relied upon by Singapore’s data protection commission to draft their implementation guidelines, assist in complex enforcement of data breach cases, and develop cross-border frameworks. Besides Singapore, Chong Kin also acts for various ASEAN regulators on matters related to his expertise in competition, data and TMT.

Given Chong Kin’s broad, deep and overlapping experience in competition, data and regulatory work, he is truly unique in being able to advise on complex matters spanning across the entire spectrum of the digital economy. Drawing on this unique background, Chong Kin frequently advises clients in the cutting-edge industries of AI, FinTech, Big Data and TMT. He is equally adept at advising clients on market entry, telecommunications infrastructure deployment and data center issues (hard core TMT), to advising on all aspects of the data handling (focusing on data protection and cybersecurity), and into the new areas of AI and other “killer applications” that are driving the digital economy.

As a testament to his standing, Chong Kin has consistently been recommended as a leading individual by all the major international legal publications across the areas of competition, data and TMT including The Asia Pacific Legal 500, Global Competition Review, Chambers Asia-Pacific, The Guide to the World’s Leading Competition & Antitrust Lawyers/Economists, Who’s Who Legal, Practical Law Company Which Lawyer?, Asialaw Profiles and Best Lawyers. He is also highly regarded by his peers, clients and rivals alike for his expertise. All the practices in Competition, Data and TMT that Chong Kin founded and continues to head in the firm, have been widely acclaimed as leading practices in Singapore.

Chong Kin is a Senior Accredited Specialist in Data and Digital Economy Law by the Singapore Academy of Law.

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Member, Law Society of Singapore Member, Singapore Academy of Law Member, Law Society of England and Wales Member, Pacific Telecommunications Council Associate member, American Bar Association

LL.B. (Hons), National University of Singapore LL.M., National University of Singapore Admitted to the Singapore Bar (1996) Solicitor, England & Wales (1999)