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Qualifications

  • LL.B. (Hons), University of Nottingham
  • Admitted to the Singapore Bar (2020)

Shao Min is an Associate Director with the Corporate & Finance Department in Drew & Napier.

Her key areas of practice are Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT), Data Protection, Privacy and Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence.

Shao Min’s practice includes complex advisory work supporting both the industry and its regulators. For TMT, she advises regulators on the application and enforcement of telecommunications and sectoral competition laws and regulations, including drafting decisions, directions and codes of practice. She also advises organisations on their data protection compliance and governance obligations, and the management of data breach incidents.

She has assisted with making notifications and representations to the regulator, including on novel areas involving the Legitimate Interests Exception and breach of statutory timelines for incident reporting.

Shao Min regularly advises clients on other regulatory issues, including online safety, product liability, and gambling laws.

Shao Min was seconded to a Singapore-headquartered APAC technology group, supporting in-house stakeholders by negotiating and advising on a range of commercial IT agreements, such as master services agreements, vendor partnership agreements, and software development agreements.  

Before joining the firm in 2021, Shao Min trained and practised in one of Singapore’s largest law firms where she practised commercial litigation and arbitration.    

  • Advised a large US-based AI company on issues concerning the training of AI models using user data (including sensitive personal data), applicable online safety laws, and general business risks for operations in Singapore.
  • Advised a large multi-national corporation on the conduct of its annual cybersecurity audit, which includes a comprehensive legal review of its cybersecurity measures for compliance with local laws and regulations.
  • Advised a legal technology company on the deployment of its large language model product in Singapore to provide legal services.
  • Advised a local startup on their procurement of high-performance computing resources to train AI models and reviewing and drafting Infrastructure-as-a-Service contractual documents.
  • Advised a multi-national telecommunications company on intellectual property and liability issues arising from the implementation of AI chatbots in the workplace to boost employee productivity.
  • Member, Law Society of Singapore
  • Member, Singapore Academy of Law