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Chee Kun Thong

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Position

Co-Head, Fraud, Asset Recovery & Investigations

Career

Chee Kun co-heads the firm’s Fraud, Asset Recovery & Investigations practice. He is a well-known white-collar crime specialist focusing in financial and regulatory crimes and offences, and has advised clients in offences ranging from corporate and compliance breaches, criminal breach of trust, corruption and cybercrimes to market manipulation and securities fraud. He has also represented many individuals and corporations in enforcement proceedings initiated by local and overseas regulators and agencies. He was also involved as one of the lead lawyers relating to the recent case involving German payment services provider Wirecard as well as 1MDB.

Chee Kun also has extensive experience in advising and acting for clients in many major cases involving corporate and compliance breaches, corruption offences, tax-related offences, fraud, cheating, criminal breach of trust, cybercrime as well as securities fraud such as market manipulation and insider trading. Apart from having vast courtroom experience, Chee Kun has represented many individuals and corporations in respect of enforcement proceedings initiated by regulatory bodies including the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Singapore Exchange Ltd.

Chee Kun was recognised as one of the world’s leading business crimes defence lawyers by Who’s Who Legal. In addition, he has been acknowledged by global legal directories including Chambers, The Legal 500 and Benchmark Litigation as a prominent litigator in the areas of corporate investigations, anti-corruption and white-collar crime.