Simran brings over 20 years of litigation and regulatory experience to Tang Thomas, where she leads the firm’s regulatory and investigations offering and co-heads its disputes practice. Her practice focuses on complex white-collar crime, corporate governance, and regulatory investigations across sectors including financial services, charities, workplace health and safety, and employment.

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Her work spans fraud, corruption, insider trading, market misconduct, money laundering, and corporate malfeasance matters, including acting in the major and most high-profile financial crime and corporate-governance matters in the past 2 decades, including the:

 

•   prosecution of the leaders of the City Harvest Church, for criminal breach of trust

•   prosecution of a senior executive of ST Marine, for corruption and falsification of accounts

•   prosecution of the individual allegedly responsible for the $8billion Blumont penny stock crash

•   prosecution of senior executives of Trek2000, the inventor of the thumb drive, for accounting fraud

•   investigations into various C-suite individuals in relation to the Operation Car Wash

corruption scandal  

•   investigations by a major bank in relation to the Hin Leong scandal

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Simran also regularly acts for clients involved in investigations and inquiries into employee misconduct investigations.

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She is known for her ability to navigate sensitive investigations with discretion and strategic precision, whether advising corporate boards, financial institutions, or non-profit organisations, and is skilled at managing legal and reputational risk in an increasingly complex operating environment.

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Simran graduated in the top 10 of her Bar exam class, winning prizes in criminal procedure and professional ethics. She began her career a criminal prosecutor at the Attorney-General’s Chambers of Singapore, and later practiced at WongPartnership LLP, where, as a partner, she advised on contentious and non-contentious regulatory matters, enforcement defence, and commercial litigation for multinational clients.

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Beyond private practice, Simran served 6 terms as an elected member of the Council of the Law Society of Singapore, where she co-chaired the disciplinary committee and co-founded the Women in Practice committee.

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Simran also spent two years on the client side, serving as the first CEO of the non-profit, SG Her Empowerment (SHE). This, alongside her other roles on charitable boards in Singapore, gives her valuable insight into charitable regulations, organisational governance and stakeholder dynamics, deepening her empathy and effectiveness as a legal advisor.

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Ranked an “up and coming” investigations practitioner in 2022 by Chambers Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption Asia-Pacific guide, Simran has also contributed to the Chambers Anti Corruption guide in 2018 and 2019, and co-authored the Chambers Global Practice Guide – White Collar Crime (Singapore) in 2021.