"Elsa Chen is a Partner in the Corporate & Commercial Department. She is also Regional Co-Head of the Firm’s Competition & Antitrust practice, and Co-Head of its ESG and Public Policy practice. In 2020, Global Competition Review (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. In 2013 and 2016, Elsa was featured in the 100 elite women globally in the field of competition law by GCR in their Women in Antitrust 2013 and 2016 peer-nominated surveys. She was also named as one of the 10 competition economists globally in GCR’s Women in Antitrust 2016: Economists. Elsa is regularly recognised as a leading competition economist in Who’s Who Legal Competition: Economists since 2010, Who’s Who Legal Consulting Experts: Economic Consulting – Competition Economists, Euromoney Guide to the World’s Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers and Economists, and Expert Guides’ Women in Business Law. She was also cited by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2017) to have a “good grasp of the subject matter”. Elsa regularly assists clients on complex antitrust matters, including global cartel and abuse of dominance investigations. In 2013, Elsa led the team in a matter which was conferred the GCR Award 2013: Behavioural Matter of the Year (Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa).Elsa’s public policy experience ranges from formulating regulatory policies, advocacy to governments and businesses, and assisting on legislative changes, such as the drafting of the Competition Act, Block Exemption Order, and regulations for other sectoral regimes. Elsa was previously Assistant Director at the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore, and was also a pioneer member of the CCS. A recipient of the Prime Minister's Book Prize, Elsa 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. She holds a postgraduate degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an LLM with a specialisation in Competition Law."