Singapore’s Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow Grows Antitrust Team

Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow, the global law firm’s member firm in Singapore, has hired competition lawyer Harikumar Sukumar Pillay as a partner.

Hari is an associate principal in the Competition & Anti-trust Practice Group at Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow. His practice covers competition law and regulation-related advisory work in Singapore and the Southeast Asia region. Hari was the Director of the Enforcement Division at the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (“CCCS”), where he supervised the CCCS’s Intelligence Unit and IT Forensics Taskforce, in addition to the supervision of case teams on various investigations, mergers and notifications. 

He was also responsible for managing leniency applications made to the CCCS, overseeing the secret complainant and reward schemes, planning and executing dawn raids, and recording investigative statements of persons under investigations. Hari led teams involved in defending appeals brought against the CCCS’s decisions before the Competition Appeals Board. Prior to joining the Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow, Hari completed stints in private practice and as a Justices’ Law Clerk with the Singapore Legal Service.

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