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Simran brings over 20 years of litigation and regulatory experience to Tanglin Law, where she leads the firm’s regulatory and investigations offering and co-heads its disputes practice.

She began her career as a criminal prosecutor at the Attorney-General’s Chambers of Singapore and later practiced for 15 years at Big 4 law firm WongPartnership LLP, where, as a partner, she advised on contentious and non-contentious regulatory matters, enforcement defence, and commercial litigation for corporate and multinational clients.

Simran’s practice focuses on commercial disputes, corporate governance, white collar crime, and regulatory investigations across various sectors including financial services, charities, building and construction, and facilities management. Her work focusses on board and shareholder disputes, fraud, corruption, insider trading, market misconduct, money laundering, crypto fraud, and workplace health and safety matters.

Simran also regularly advises on employment issues, employee misconduct, whistleblower claims, and corporate crisis management. 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.

• Prosecution of oil giant Shell for the 2011 Pulau Bukom refinery fire
• 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 responsible for the $8billion Blumont penny stock crash
• Prosecution of a senior executive of Trek2000, inventors 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 multimillion dollar Hin Leong fraud
• Class action suit by 1000 investors against allegedly fraudulent crude oil investments marketed by Capital Asia Group and Capital Asia Group Oil Management.

Simran graduated in the top 10 of her Bar exam class, winning prizes in criminal procedure and professional ethics. She was ranked an “up and coming” investigations practitioner in 2022 by Chambers Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption Asia-Pacific guide.

Simran 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. More recently, Simran co-authored the Lexology – Anti-Bribery & Corruption in 2026.

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. She also served as a member of the Young Lawyers Committee, Publications Committee, and Criminal Practice Committee.

Simran spent two years serving as the inaugural CEO of the high-profile women’s interests non-profit, SG Her Empowerment. This, alongside her other roles on charitable boards in Singapore such as Fertility Support Singapore and Kidstart Singapore Limited, gives her valuable insight into societies and charitable regulations, organisational governance and stakeholder dynamics, deepening her effectiveness as a legal advisor.