Simmons & Simmons

Employment

Clarence is a labour and employment law specialist, whose work covers the full spectrum of employment and immigration issues spanning the life cycle of the employment relationship (and beyond).

Clarence routinely advises on the employment aspects of M&A transactions and internal reorganisations, and assists clients on issues ranging from cross-border restructurings and retrenchments to employee misconduct, disciplinary hearings and terminations. A litigator by training, Clarence also regularly acts for clients in matters involving breaches of post-termination restrictions, including seeking (and resisting) the enforcement of restrictive covenants and confidentiality obligations before the Singapore courts, with considerable success.

Clarence also has significant experience in dealing with fraud, corruption and data privacy issues. He is often called upon to assist with complex compliance and regulatory breaches, and to conduct internal investigations into bribery, corruption and white-collar crime issues across the region.

Clarence is qualified in Singapore and England. Among his various accolades, Clarence is recognised as a “Next Generation Partner” for Labour and Employment by the Legal 500 Asia Pacific, an “Up and Coming” partner for Singapore Employment by Chambers and Partners, one of Singapore’s “30 Most Influential Lawyers Under 40” by the Singapore Business Review and one of International Employment Lawyer’s inaugural “Tomorrow’s Leaders”. He is the author of the employment law and data privacy chapters in Lexis Practical Guidance. Clarence was previously appointed an amicus curiae to the Supreme Court of Singapore, and is a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the Association of Workplace Investigators. He is also an accredited specialist mediator with the Singapore International Mediation Centre.