Ken Chia

Telecommunications

Infrastructure

• Advising the Infocommunications Development Authority of Singapore on the tenders for the implementation of both the passive and the active of Singapore’s SGD 1 billion Next Generation National Broadband Network project.

Mobile

• Advising a leading telecommunications company on its RAN sharing agreements with another leading telecommunications company to create a Shared 2/3/4G RAN network and to expand its existing 4G JV to build a Shared 5G RAN network.
• Advising Y-Max Networks Sdn Bhd on the implementation of a multi-billion ringgit WiMAX network in Peninsular Malaysia and on its agreements to rollout a new IP Core, national WiMax radio access network, OSS/BSS, and microwave transmission network.

Regulatory

• Advising various car manufacturers on telco licensing requirements for Machine to Machine services in Singapore, and the importation of embedded SIMs.

Technology

• Advising Singapore Customs on the first IT Public Private Partnership deal in Singapore to create a one-stop integrated logistics information port, TradeXchange.

Competition

• Advising an automotive company in reviewing its discounts policies across its full line of parts business in Singapore.
• Advising an industry association on its response to a proposed Government vaccine subsidy program.
• Advising a biopharmaceutical company on government pricing requirements related to its participation in a vaccine tender.

FinTech

• Advised The Association of Banks in Singapore on the PromptPay-PayNow linkage between Singapore and Thailand’s real-time retail payment systems.

Data Protection and Privacy

• Advising on several data breach cases in Singapore, including 3 which are now reported decisions. We advised client on its voluntary notifications to the PDPC and the remediation measures.

• Singapore Academy of Law
• American Bar Association
• State Bar of California
• Law Society of England & Wales
• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators - Accredited Mediator - ADR Group UK
• Singapore Institute of Arbitrators - Fellow