Associate Director
Victoria Ting
Prior to Setia Law LLC, Victoria was a Deputy Public Prosecutor and Deputy Senior State Counsel with the Financial and Technology Crime Division of the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC).
While at the AGC, she successfully prosecuted and tried many significant fraud, bribery, money-laundering, and sanctions cases and acted for the State in asset forfeiture and mutual legal assistance matters. She has also overseen complex fraud and fraudulent trading investigations and prosecutions, working in close collaboration with other law enforcement and governmental agencies such as the Commercial Affairs Department, the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau.
Victoria brings an in-depth understanding of law enforcement, policy-making and regulatory agenda-setting in Singapore and is uniquely positioned to advise corporates, financial institutions, and investments funds, on matters concerning fraud, financial crimes, corporate governance issues, regulatory investigations, and regulatory enforcement actions.
Victoria has been named among the worldwide ‘40 Under 40’ in the field of investigations, by the Global Investigations Review. She has also been recognised in Chambers and Partners (Corporate Investigations / Anti-Corruption – Singapore), in the Legal 500 (White-Collar Crime), and in Singapore Business Review’s list of ‘Singapore’s most notable lawyers under 40’. Clients have appreciated her “depth of legal knowledge and breadth of real-life case experience“, her “ability to communicate with layman clients in a way which is totally understandable“, and her “great empathy and care for the client” and willingness to “go the extra mile“.
She holds a First Class degree from the University of Cambridge, and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School. At Columbia, she was awarded the Walter Gellhorn prize, for graduating with the highest academic average, and served on the Columbia Journal of Asian Law and the Columbia Journal of International Investment Law and Policy. She has undergone attachments with the Ministry of Law and the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, and has represented Singapore as a delegate at financial regulation forums such as the G7’s Financial Action Task Force.
Victoria's Representative Experience
Acted for a petrochemicals conglomerate headquartered in the People’s Republic of China, whose employees had been suspected of a sophisticated trade financing fraud and misappropriation $70 million, in conducting multi-jurisdictional internal investigations;
Acted for a major international private bank whose employees had been suspected of complex misconduct involving customers’ transactions and accounts, implicating sums in excess of USD 50 million; conducted broad-ranging internal investigations, and liaised with Singaporean as well as European regulators;
Acted for trustees in the fall-out of the ‘1MDB’ matter in relation to the negotiated release and realisation of assets seized as part of the cross-border money-laundering investigations involving the US, Singapore, Malaysia, and other countries;
Acted for a technology / social media company facing allegations of fraudulent misrepresentation and accounting misconduct, involving approximately SGD 165 million;
Acted for a C-suite member of a prominent conglomerate headquartered in Singapore and listed on the SGX, who had been under investigation for graft allegations arising out of an anonymous whistleblower’s complaint, and successfully cleared the client of all complaints;
Acted for a client who had fallen victim to a multi-million dollar cyber-attack through the blockchain, denominated in USD-Tether. Under extreme tight timelines and the threat of dissipation, and overseeing a team comprising blockchain investigators and overseas counsel in the British Virgin Islands, successfully secured injunctions in multiple jurisdictions against private wallet-holders and cryptocurrency exchanges to secure and recover the defrauded assets;
Led the prosecution of the main offender and bribe-recipient in Singapore’s largest public sector corruption case in recent times;
Oversaw investigations into a complex and multi-actor fraud perpetrated against the Government, involving about $40 million;
Oversaw fraudulent trading investigations into a Ponzi scheme involving more than 100 claimants and $100 million;
Led the prosecution of a matter involving more than $8 million of secret profits reaped by a high-level employee of a former listed multi-national corporation;
Acted for the State in contested domestic and cross-border asset restraint matters, including matters involving valuations in excess of USD 1 billion;
Led the prosecution of multiple high-profile fraud and bribery matters involving public institutions, financial institutions and multi-national corporations;
Led the negotiations of deferred prosecution agreements, financial penalties and civil settlements in the multi-million-dollar range;
Acted for the State in seminal Court of Appeal and High Court matters establishing the law on entitlement to possession (Oon Heng Lye v Public Prosecutor [2017] 5 SLR 1064), the computation of financial penalties for corruption (Public Prosecutor v Takaaki Masui and another and other matters [2022] 1 SLR 1033) and the establishment of a sentencing framework for private sector corruption (Goh Ngak Eng v Public Prosecutor [2022] SGHC 254).
*The representative cases above include matters handled prior to Setia Law LLC.
