White-collar crime - Local firms

Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP continues to advise on a series of headline cases throughout the region and beyond. A comprehensive practice, the team has extensive experience assisting both regional and global clients on cross-jurisdictional criminal, financial, and regulatory matters, with extensive experience in major frauds, extradition, insider trading, and anti-corruption mandates, as well as cyber issues, breach of trust cases and investigations. The team regularly engages in both defence and prosecution cases for multinational corporations, financial institutions, governmental authorities and high-profile individuals across a vast number of sectors. Co-heads Hamidul Haq and Thong Chee Kun have considerable experience as public prosecutors; Haq focuses on disclosure and other corporate matters, as well as money laundering, while Kun is proficient in criminal law, with specialisms in financial and regulatory offences. Josephine Chee is another key contact in the group and handles securities fraud mandates, including market manipulation, insider trading and compliance issues.

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Key clients

Wirecard AG
Daewoo Construction & Engineering

Work highlights

Acting for Wirecard AG in an ongoing high-profile internal inquiry with wide-ranging implications with its index shedding substantially in value since the fraud allegations.
Jointly advising clients in criminal proceedings in the State Courts of Singapore in relation to a high-profile investigation by the Singapore authorities into their alleged corruption of Henry Foo for the purposes of furthering Daewoo's business interests with LTA.
Advising the client into the much publicised “Pandora Papers” data leak that has uncovered the financial activities and assets of renowned corporations, trusts and individuals internationally.