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Andy Yeo is a Partner in Litigation & Dispute Resolution. He is also the principal partner of the White Collar Crime Practice Group. He commenced his legal career in the public service where he held the concurrent appointments of Magistrate, Subordinate Courts and Assistant Registrar of the Supreme Court, Singapore, from 1996 to 1998. Thereafter, he was appointed State Counsel and Deputy Public Prosecutor in the Attorney-General’s Chambers’ Civil Division as well as the then Criminal Justice Division.
He has previously dealt with a wide array of the Singapore Government’s civil matters, and prosecuted a wide variety of offences including those under the Penal Code, Immigration Act and Misuse of Drugs Act. Since moving to private practice in 2000, he has practised and successfully handled matters in the fields of administrative, criminal and commercial law.
His particular expertise within the Firm is in securities and banking regulatory compliance and in white-collar criminal law where he has in-depth experience in advising and handling matters involving complicated fraud, corruption, whistle-blowing, risk management, market misconduct, money laundering, as well as issues relating to counter-proliferation. He has also actively advised on and managed several disciplinary and ethical issues for the Firm’s premium and priority clients.
Andy’s wide experience also includes handling of regulatory, compliance, quasi-criminal and enforcement matters arising under the Securities and Futures Act, the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, Tokyo Convention Act, Terrorism (Suppression of Financing) Act, Corruption, Drug Trafficking & Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act, Prevention of Corruption Act, Immigration Act, Workplace Safety & Health Act and Customs Act. He also deals with a wide range of commercial cases and other transactional matters. His varied interests also lie especially in AML and banking risk management, asset tracing and recovery in fraud and corruption matters.
Andy has been involved in the training as well as the advisory aspects of many transactions and issues, from the local law perspective, including those relating to the US Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the Sarbannes-Oxley Act as well as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He has a close and extensive range of professional contacts within his specialist networks and is a regular speaker and a trainer in both local and international seminars and conferences, often dealing with the areas of his speciality.
Andy participates very actively in the Law Society of Singapore and sits on a few of its committees. He serves in the Law Society’s pro bono programme and is also one of the pioneer trainers in the Advocacy Module of the Post Graduate Practice Law Course for many years. He was a contributing editor in the inaugural edition of the Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore - Criminal Law together with other leading practitioners in this field.
Andy was involved in the Law Society’s ad-hoc committee which helped move the 2008 amendments to the Penal Code. At the same time, he is also in the International Bar Association’s Anti-Money Laundering Legislation Implementation Group. Andy is the Firm’s Compliance Partner.
Andy is fluent in English, Mandarin as well as a few Chinese dialects. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LLB (Hons) degree in 1996 and was called to the Singapore Bar in 2000. He is also qualified to practice as a solicitor in England and Wales.
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