Drew & Napier - Partners' Profiles

Gary joined Drew & Napier LLC in 2000 and is a Director with the Dispute Resolution Department.

He read law at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law under a Public Service Commission (Local Merit Scholarship). Prior to joining Drew & Napier LLC, he was appointed to the Attorney-General's Chambers as a Deputy Public Prosecutor and State Counsel, where he handled a multitude of criminal prosecutions, particularly prosecution of white-collar criminal offences under the Corruption and Specialist Crimes Directorate.

Gary is also an adjunct tutor for Trial Advocacy at the Law Faculty, National University of Singapore, since 2001.

Gary's practice spans both civil and criminal litigation. His civil/commercial practice comprises both contentious and non-contentious work and includes disputes in banking and finance, commercial disputes, arbitrations, directors’/shareholders’ disputes, minority oppression, tortuous liability, property and contractual disputes.

He has acted for several major local and foreign banks in defending claims brought by customers for effecting payments in breach of mandate and in general banking and insolvency practice, ranging from routine credit recovery, insolvency processes like judicial management and liquidation, to advisory work such as bank confidentiality, anti-money laundering practices and banker-customer obligations. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, he has also represented banks, corporations and individuals in claims relating to the mis-selling of financial products.

Gary also advises clients on matters relating to the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other regulatory issues. He has wide experience in criminal proceedings and his criminal practice includes both white and blue collar crime, in particular commercial crimes, corruption offences and securities offences such as insider trading and market manipulation.

Experience

Some of the matters that Gary has handled include the following:

Representing Citibank N.A. in a claim for over S$12 million against two directors/shareholders of a public-listed company under a Deed of Undertaking.
Representing major local banks in defending claims brought by customers for effecting payments in breach of mandate.
Representing banks, corporations and individuals in claims relating to misrepresentation and mis-selling of financial products.
Representing related corporations in actions against its former director/fiduciary to recover unauthorised payments and monies misappropriated by the director/fiduciary.
Representing shareholders in suits against the controlling shareholders for oppression.
Representing corporations in claims against former employees for breach of duties, breach of confidentiality and breach of non-compete covenants.
Representing a jeweller and its director against a claim for dishonestly assisting in the dissipation of trust monies by the former solicitor of the Plaintiffs who absconded with the Plaintiffs’ monies.
Defending a managing director of a Singapore-listed company against alleged offences under the Securities Industry Act (now known as the Securities and Futures Act) based on charges of alleged market manipulation, and making of alleged false and misleading statements in a public announcement to the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited.
Defending a businessman in a market-rigging case involving the shares of a public listed company.
Acting for StarHub Cable Vision in private summons against sellers of unauthorised decoders.
Defending clients accused of a variety of offences, including outrage of modesty, criminal intimidation, cheating, traffic offences, offences under the Misuse of Drugs Act, Immigration Act and other offences under the Penal Code.
Extensive investigation into the affairs of an international financial institution in relation to fraud, criminal breach of trust, cheating and breach of fiduciary duties.