Kala Anandarajah heads the Competition & Antitrust and Trade Practice and leads the Corporate Governance Practice at Rajah & Tann. Her key practice areas are Competition and Trade (including consumer protection), with strong secondary practices in Employment, Environmental (EHS) & Sustainability, Corporate Governance and Telco/Media Laws.She sits on various boards, including Building and Construction Authority, Singapore Institute of Legal Education; and is a member of the External Review Panel of Safety in SAF (MIDEF), the Appeal Board - Council of Estate Agents (MND). She was for a long-time part of the Workplace Safety & Health Council and was on the Committee for Professional Training of Lawyers formed by the Chief Justice of Singapore. Kala has been involved in major cartel/ abuse investigations, cross-border mergers/ other notifications, leniency applications, and also handles dawn-raids, complaints, consultation, counselling, compliance, training and implementation of competition laws across the region. On trade agreements specifically, her work has spanned providing feedback on FTAs being negotiated, setting up a business and structuring logistics flows to benefit from RTAs and FTAs, advising extensively on ROOs and COOs, whilst meandering the different ROO under different FTAs, advising on how best to benefit from preferential treatment, and also handling defending violations vis-à-vis customs regulators.