Shu Min Ho > Sidley Austin LLP > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile

Sidley Austin provides ‘practical, commercial and pragmatic advice’ to clients from a wide range of industry sectors, including asset management, financial services, life sciences, and technology, across a broad array of anti corruption-related matters. Leveraging the firm’s strong presence in other critical offices in the region, the team is best known for its ability to provide a unified, Asia-wide offering to clients engaged in regulatory investigations and enforcements, as well as compliance counselling on inter alia sanctions and AML, and FCPA matters associated with transactional work handled by the firm. In addition, the team is noted for its aptitude at handling mandates which also touch upon UK and US regulatory concerns. Although now both based in Singapore, following their return to the firm after a brief stint at McDermott Will & Emery Singapore LLP, ‘highly intellectual and pragmatic’ co-heads Yuet Ming Tham and Shu Min Ho are both well-versed in anti-corruption matters with a nexus to Hong Kong, having spent many years practising in the country. Stephanie Chan, who joined in February 2023 from Reed Smith Richards Butler LLP, adds firepower to the firm’s offering on the ground in Hong Kong, particularly as it relates to regulatory investigations conducted by regulatory and enforcement authorities, including the HKSE, SFC, and HKMA.

Sidley Austin LLP’s dedicated practice handles corporate investigations for high-profile multinational clients across the life sciences, technology, and manufacturing sectors. In addition to cross-border compliance, antitrust, corruption, and misconduct investigations, the team often advises clients on cyber, data privacy and sanctions work. According to clients, ‘pragmatic, relevant and concise advice is the hallmark of the team’. ‘Powerhouse’ and practice leader Yuet Ming Tham advises on matters concerning the FCPA, corporate compliance, investigations, sanctions, money-laundering regulations, data privacy, employment and antitrust. Shu Min Ho, who handles investigations and compliance projects in the life sciences, technology, biotech and biopharma industries, is another key contact in the group.