Rajah & Tann Asia

Partner, White Collar Crime

Josephine has been involved in a broad range of disputes and advisory work that straddles both commercial and criminal litigation during her time with the firm since graduation. Her practice focuses on white collar financial crimes, investigations work and regulatory offences.

She regularly advises and acts for both individuals and corporations in complex criminal matters involving securities fraud such as market manipulation and insider trading, major financial and compliance offences and corporate breaches under the Companies Act. Her portfolio also encompasses advising financial institutions and corporations on enforcement proceedings initiated by regulatory bodies including the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Singapore Exchange and the Ministry of Manpower.

Additionally, Josephine has assisted in internal investigations for multi-jurisdictional companies in respect of corporate and compliance breaches and advising on reporting obligations and anti-money laundering matters.

In recent times, she has been involved in several landmark decisions that have shaped Singapore’s legal landscape. These include offences involving proceeds of crime under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking & Other Serious Crimes Act, offences under the Casino Control Act, and market manipulation offences under the Securities and Futures Act.

Josephine has experience at all levels of the Singapore courts for both criminal and commercial matters. She has succeeded as lead counsel before the Court of Appeal arising out of a decision rendered by the Singapore International Commercial Court (“SICC”) and led criminal trials. She has also been involved in a wide range of commercial disputes relating to securities litigation, shareholders’ disputes, hotel management disputes and employment-related matters.

Josephine has been recoginsed as a Next Generation Partner for White Collar Crime by The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific (2024). Clients lauded that she “has the capacity to grasp complex transactions and evaluate these in light of the law”, “is good at drawing a line between a crime and commercial dispute” and “very capable and quick to react”.

She is also identified as one of Asia’s Super 50 Disputes Lawyers by Asian Legal Business (ALB) (2022).

Josephine graduated from the Singapore Management University, which she represented in the Willem C. Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot 2011 and the Monroe E. Price Moot 2012. She was placed on the Dean’s List in 2012. She is also a tutor of modules for the SILE Part B Examination course, including Civil Procedure.