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Grace Chong

Women in Corporate

Grace head the Financial Regulatory team at Gibson Dunn's Singapore office. She has been consistently named as one of Singapore’s top 10 FinTech lawyers and is highly ranked in Chambers FinTech 2022, with clients noting that she “is very savvy and shares her knowledge of the MAS and market trends” and “is very pragmatic and always comes forth with sensible and realistic propositions, after an in-depth understanding of our requirements and objectives. She is a real asset to have on our side.” Further, she is recommended in Financial Services Regulatory for Singapore by The Legal 500 2022 guide which notes that she “is one of the best crypto regulatory lawyers in Singapore and is very responsive and personable.” Ms. Chong was recognized as an “Innovative Individual” in Financial Times’ Innovative Lawyers Awards 2021 and was named as one of Asian Legal Business’ Top 15 Rising Lawyers for APAC. Formerly from MAS, Grace has been an instrumental thought-leader in regional regulatory reform initiatives, and regularly leads discussions with key regulators on behalf of the industry. She is currently leading an industry group to draft a Code of Best Practices for Advertising Guidelines on behalf of the digital assets industry, and sits on the Boards of ACCESS Blockchain Association, the Women in Payments group and leads the ESG Working Group in AIMA. Due to her trailblazing work, she was invited to act as a Contributing Expert for Asia for the CFTE Payments course. • Grace speaks regularly at various influential industry conferences in the region, and in the last year, her sought-after insights on regulatory matters were published in various esteemed publications, including Forbes, the Financial Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Regulation Asia and Ignites.

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Grace head the Financial Regulatory team at Gibson Dunn's Singapore office. She has been consistently named as one of Singapore’s top 10 FinTech lawyers and is highly ranked in Chambers FinTech 2022, with clients noting that she “is very savvy and shares her knowledge of the MAS and market trends” and “is very pragmatic and always comes forth with sensible and realistic propositions, after an in-depth understanding of our requirements and objectives. She is a real asset to have on our side.” Further, she is recommended in Financial Services Regulatory for Singapore by The Legal 500 2022 guide which notes that she “is one of the best crypto regulatory lawyers in Singapore and is very responsive and personable.” Ms. Chong was recognized as an “Innovative Individual” in Financial Times’ Innovative Lawyers Awards 2021 and was named as one of Asian Legal Business’ Top 15 Rising Lawyers for APAC.

Formerly from MAS, Grace has been an instrumental thought-leader in regional regulatory reform initiatives, and regularly leads discussions with key regulators on behalf of the industry. She is currently leading an industry group to draft a Code of Best Practices for Advertising Guidelines on behalf of the digital assets industry, and sits on the Boards of ACCESS Blockchain Association, the Women in Payments group and leads the ESG Working Group in AIMA.

Due to her trailblazing work, she was invited to act as a Contributing Expert for Asia for the CFTE Payments course. • Grace speaks regularly at various influential industry conferences in the region, and in the last year, her sought-after insights on regulatory matters were published in various esteemed publications, including Forbes, the Financial Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Regulation Asia and Ignites.

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