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Daryl Chew to speak at The Economist’s General Counsel Summit Asia

Events 22nd September 2025

Daryl Chew will speak on a panel titled “Navigating global disorder: challenges facing general counsels in Asia” at The Economist’s inaugural General Counsel Summit Asia.

The panel will explore how businesses in the region are navigating regulatory complexity, supply chain disruption and shifting compliance risks. The panellists will also address how legal leaders are helping their organisations stay agile, the legal frameworks to mitigate risks, and how GCs can ensure business resilience amid uncertainty.

Daryl will speak alongside Mayen Ekong (Gurīn Energy), Samuel K. Huen (Bank of Singapore), and Anna Quah (UPS). The panel will be moderated by Sue-Lin Wong (The Economist).

The session will take place on Tuesday, 7 October 2025, from 9:40 am to 10:15 am SGT at Pan Pacific Singapore.

To learn more or register, click here.

ABOUT DARYL CHEW

Daryl is the managing partner of the firm’s Singapore office. He has an active portfolio of arbitrations involving a wide range of applicable laws and venues, arising from energy, construction, M&A, joint venture, and general commercial disputes.

Daryl also serves as presiding arbitrator, co-arbitrator and sole arbitrator in institutional and ad hoc arbitration proceedings.

Chambers and The Legal 500 commend his “outstanding track record”, “superb written advocacy”, “valuable strategic input”, and recommend him for “consistently high-quality work”. Clients in these directories observe that he “scores highly for excellence in proceedings that turn on complex points of law” and describe him as “a brilliant all-round talent” and a “phenomenal advocate with the ability to turn the most complex facts in a case into simple, attractive and persuasive argument”. Daryl features as a “Global Leader” in Lexology Index: Arbitration, which describes him as “one of the best lawyers of his generation” and “a top name for international arbitration”. Prior editions of Who’s Who Legal have ranked him as “one of the brightest” and “most highly regarded” partners in the Asia Pacific. He also features in the inaugural “Legal 500 Arbitration Powerlist – Southeast Asia” and was named among “30 People to Watch in the Business of Law in Asia in 2022” by Asia Law Portal.