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Victor David Lau

Associate Director, Dispute Resolution

Key Practices

Qualifications

  • L.B. (Hons), National University of Singapore
  • Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore (2019)

Victor is a civil/commercial and crime disputes specialist with a strong focus on advocacy.

Victor’s civil and commercial practice focuses on shareholder disputes, trust disputes, tortious (i.e. negligence) actions and obtaining injunctive relief for his clients in the Singapore courts. He also represents clients in commercial arbitrations.

Victor has a deep and active practice in white-collar crime. He has defended individuals and companies facing allegations of bribery, cheating, corruption, customs offences, money laundering and regulatory offences. He has acted in professional disciplinary proceedings and private prosecutions. Finally, he regularly advises on extradition and immigration matters.

Victor has a growing investigations practice centred on uncovering fraud and misappropriation within companies.

A significant portion of Victor’s clientele is based in Greater China, and he makes regular trips to the region to support their evolving legal needs. Victor speaks and writes Mandarin and is conversant in Cantonese.

  • Represented one of the 10 accused persons in Singapore’s largest money-laundering probe involving over S$3 billion in seized cash and assets.

  • Represented minority shareholders of a special purpose vehicle which owned an FPSO vessel in their dispute with the majority shareholders. Successfully obtained interim injunctions on an emergency basis to prevent the sale and movement of the vessel.

  • Represented (in separate instances) multiple directors of various motor vehicle importers/exporters, including one of the largest cases of customs evasion in Singapore, prosecuted for conspiring to fraudulently under-declare the value of motor vehicles to the Singapore Customs (reported in Low Han Siang v Public Prosecutor [2024] SGHC 217).

  • Represented a director of a construction company who was prosecuted for cheating various government agencies (reported in Public Prosecutor v Cheow Boon Peng [2022] SGDC 87).

  • Advised a global trading platform on the fraudulent misappropriation of funds and cryptocurrency by members of staff.

  • Law Society of Singapore
  • Criminal Legal Aid Scheme Committee, Law Society of Singapore
  • Public and International Law Committee, Law Society of Singapore