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Singapore

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Labour and employment: foreign firms

CMS handles a range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters. The team is regularly instructed on multi-jurisdictional projects, coordinating cross-border advice and acting as sole international counsel for clients in the region. Lakshanthi Fernando leads the team, with expertise across jurisdictions and a specialism in contentious issues, such as breach of restrictive covenants, employee wrongdoing, internal investigations, contentious hires and dismissals, and complex retrenchment.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘Lakshanthi Fernando – Always a pleasure to work with Lakshanthi. She is very professional and able to deliver top-quality work with a good turnaround time.’

Key clients

  • A+E Networks
  • Acciona

Work highlights

Advising a leading manufacturing company and its Singapore subsidiary on a sophisticated fraud involving deepfake impersonations of senior executives and a complex scam which resulted in unauthorised fund transfers by a senior employee from Singapore to Hong Kong, coordinating a cross-border investigation and internal disciplinary action.
Practice head

Lakshanthi Fernando

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