Course Facilitator

Cheryl Seah

Cheryl is a Director at Drew & Napier LLC, where her key areas of practice are Technology, Media and Telecommunications, and Artificial Intelligence & Digital Trust.

Cheryl advises companies ranging from Fortune 500 MNCs to local and foreign start-ups on legal and governance issues arising from their use of AI at all stages of the AI life cycle: from procuring the computing resources and compliance with export controls, to the data used in model training, to the IP and liability issues arising from the output. Clients include legal technology providers deploying their products in Singapore, and companies who wish to customise their own generative AI applications to generate documents and code. She has acted for both developers and deployers of AI solutions, drafting contracts for both selling and procuring AI solutions, as well as AI use policies.

Cheryl is familiar with the in-house legal function, having been seconded to a Singapore-headquartered APAC technology group where she drafts, reviews and negotiates a variety of IT contracts such as Master Services Agreements, software development agreements, and reseller agreements.

Cheryl also advises clients on IT and procurement issues, as well as cybersecurity, payment services and gaming. She publishes frequently on legal issues arising from the use of AI with the Law Society of Singapore, where her work has been cited in a Singapore regulator’s report, awarded “Best Feature Article” in the 2024 Law Gazette awards, and also featured in the Law Society’s yearly top 10 most read articles. She speaks frequently about AI for external organisations and industry associations, local and ASEAN regulators, as well as in local (NUS, SMU), European and Chinese universities. She has also been invited to contribute her views on AI issues with research institutions such as the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre at the University of Oxford, and the Global Index on Responsible AI, and is appointed as an Industry Fellow with the Singapore Management University’s Centre for Digital Law.

For her work on AI, Cheryl was recognised as a Rising Star by Asian Legal Business Singapore in 2025 and identified by Singapore Business Review as one of Singapore's 20 most notable lawyers under 40 in 2024. She is also ranked in Lexology for AI regulatory and transactions work and won the Client Choice of counsel for AI in Singapore for 2026.

In her previous role as a legislative drafter in the Legislation Division of the Attorney-General’s Chambers (Singapore’s central law drafting office), she has drafted legislation across a wide variety of subjects, with a focus on transport (including autonomous vehicles), infrastructure, technology, and civil procedure.

View Cheryl's full profile here.