Corporate and Transactional
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
Banking and Finance 2025 – Recommended Lawyer
“Both Renu Menon and Benjamin Gaw are professional, insightful and patient in their consult and advice.”
“Benjamin Gaw is a knowledgeable lawyer and good communicator. Able to break down complex legal issues into smaller, bite-sized problems and explain it in plain language to non-legal persons.”
Asialaw Awards
Client Choice Awards – Singapore Lawyer of the Year 2024
Asialaw Leading Lawyers
Corporate/M&A 2018 – Market-Leading Lawyer for 2 consecutive years
“Excellent comms with the client. Was cool and composed during the negotiation process with our counterpart. Managed his team well and meeting quick turnaround time and deadlines well.”
“Benjamin was the most responsive and very helpful.”
Healthcare and Life Sciences
Who’s Who Legal
Global Elite Thought Leader:
Global Guide: Life Sciences - Regulatory 2024 (6 consecutive years)
Global Guide: Life Sciences - Transactional 2023 (3 consecutive years)
Recommended Lawyer:
Global Guide: Life Sciences - Product Liability, and Transactional 2024 (14 consecutive years)
Global Guide: Life Sciences - Patent Litigation, Product Liability, Regulatory, and Transactional 2023 (13 consecutive years)
National Guide: Southeast Asia - Life Sciences 2024 (4 consecutive years)
“Benjamin Gaw drills deep into the issues to provide comprehensive and comprehensible advice.”
“Benjamin’s substantial experience in fund-raising in the health science space leads to winning outcomes.”
“Benjamin Gaw is “professional, calm and able to effectively manage counterparties in M&A transactions”, with sources further noting his deep regulatory understanding of the life sciences sector.”
“Benjamin Gaw is a top-tier lawyer, who is sought after for his expertise in M&A, joint venture transactions and restructurings.”
Benjamin Gaw is known as “a responsive and prompt advocate who gives clear advice and brings a calm and professional approach to matters”.
“First-class practitioner who expertly advises on complex issues”
“Benjamin Gaw is a well-regarded name in Singapore for patent disputes”.
“Held in high esteem for his excellence in joint ventures and M&A transactions in the life sciences sector”
“Extremely well informed of the needs of life sciences clients”
“Benjamin Gaw is recognised for his dynamic corporate and commercial practice, where he excels at handling a wide range of complex matters for clients in the life sciences sector.”
Benjamin Gaw of Drew & Napier is “precise, knowledgeable and extremely commercial” in his approach, and is “particularly god with biotechnology and high-tech issues associated with medical devices and medical systems”. Peers call him “efficient and always a delight to work with”.
“Clients “warmly endorse” Benjamin Gaw for his excellent work in the field of patent law. He is particularly well regarded for his deep knowledge life sciences and pharmaceutical regulation.”
“Benjamin Gaw is one of the region’s foremost lawyers in pharmaceutical and healthcare regulatory matters.”
Practical Law Company Which Lawyer?
Life Sciences: Regulatory and Transactional 2013 - Leading Lawyer for 3 consecutive years
Corporate Intellectual Property & Technology
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
Fintech and Financial Services Regulation 2025 – Recommended Lawyer for 3 consecutive years
“Benjamin Gaw and his team are excellent. Very reliable and solution oriented.”
“Benjamin Gaw is a technically very sound lawyer with a great commercial mindset. I would recommend him very highly.”
Chambers Asia-Pacific
FinTech Legal 2025 – Band 3
"Benjamin Gaw is blessed with an optimal combination of high IQ, EQ and adversity quotient to competently deal with a broad spectrum of work. He advises his clients exceptionally."
Best Lawyers International: Singapore
Information Technology Law 2026 – Endorsed Individual for 5 consecutive years
Asia IP Experts 2013 – 2017
Leading individual in Pharma & Biotech
Who’s Who Legal
National Guide: Southeast Asia – Data 2024 – Recommended Lawyer
Telecommunications Media & Technology 2016 – Leading Lawyer
Employment
Asialaw Leading Lawyers
Labour and Employment 2024 – Distinguished Practitioner
“The work was led by Benjamin Gaw, who was excellent, very knowledgeable, responsive, rigorous and commercial in his approach. The whole team provided good value for money too.”
“Professional and gives quality advice.”
“Easy to work with, responsive, down-to-earth and offers pragmatic solutions.”
“Benjamin was excellent, responsive, technically knowledgeable and very commercial. He was also very down-to-earth and easy to work with.”
“Benjamin is very easy to work with. He is knowledgeable in employment and data privacy matters. He is responsive and gives answers that are straight to the point.”
“Knowledgeable, professional, available, has a positive attitude and is attentive to client’s needs.”
Who’s Who Legal
Global Guide: Labour & Employment 2024 – Leading Lawyer for 12 consecutive years
National Guide: Southeast Asia – Labour & Employment 2024 – Leading Lawyer for 4 consecutive years
Pensions & Benefits 2015 – Leading Lawyer
“Benjamin Gaw applies his vast experience to complex employment disputes and advisory work spanning across multiple sectors.”
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
Employment 2025 – Recommended Lawyer for 9 consecutive years
“Benjamin Gaw is knowledgeable and sound."
“Benjamin Gaw is always available and understands the issues well.”
“Benjamin Gaw is highly rated as a non-contentious employment specialist.”
““True subject matter expert” Benjamin Gaw is “practical and efficient, able to deliver timely and accurately pitched advice”
“Benjamin Gaw handles non-contentious work such as data protection, immigration and post-acquisition matters. He is praised for his ‘quick turnaround time’.”
Chambers Asia-Pacific
Employment 2025 – Band 3 for 5 consecutive years
Employment 2020 – Recognised Practitioner
"Benjamin is certainly a rising star in his field."
"Ben has a depth and breadth knowledge on employment and labour laws, and he is very responsive."
"Benjamin's strengths are managing his clients' expectations and being very personable. He is knowledgeable on all things Singapore and is helpful in finding practical solutions."
"He is direct, on the ball, businesslike, and very structured and reliable."
"Their advice is always led by strong sense of commercial issues. This is definitely one of their greatest strengths. They do not advise in a vacuum - they are quick to pick up on commercial direction."
Benjamin understands the issues we're trying to deal with and offers succinct advice, giving the key points.
Very helpful and extremely responsive"
“Clients report that “the firm is very good to work with,” also highlighting the team's "knowledge and appropriate advice.””
“I find them very responsive and their written work is of a very high quality.”
"Extremely professional, sound advice and very prompt in serving their clients."
"I am continually impressed by their thoroughness."
Singapore Business Review
Singapore’s 70 most influential lawyers aged 40 and under in 2016 – Listed Lawyer