Desiree Lim

Practice Areas

Competition & Foreign Investment Review

Career

Desiree is a Partner in the Allen & Gledhill Competition & Foreign Investment Review Practice.

She has close to a decade of experience advising clients on a broad range of antitrust issues, including merger control, cartels and abuse of dominance. Her experience extends across a wide range of sectors, such as financial, aviation, real estate, technology, and semiconductor sectors. Clients both in Singapore and outside of Singapore recognise her for her sophisticated analysis, commercial approach, and ability to anticipate clients’ needs.

From 2021 to 2023, she was involved in over 40 per cent. of the merger reviews conducted by the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore, with combined transaction values exceeding S$100 billion. These included various complex mergers that moved, or proposed to move, into Phase 2 reviews.

Publications

Singapore chapters of Lexology In-Depth: Public Competition Enforcement 2025 and Cartels and Leniency 2025 by Law Business Research.

Languages Spoken

English