Weiyi Tan

Weiyi is a partner at Clyde & Co in the Singapore office. Her practice focuses on corporate investigations, regulatory compliance and commercial disputes.

Weiyi regularly advises clients on investigations into corruption, money laundering, employee misconduct, fraud and other white-collar offences, and assists them with their response to enforcement and regulatory authorities in the context of government investigations. The enforcement and regulatory authorities that she has experience with include the Singapore Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau, the Commercial Affairs Department, the Competition Commission of Singapore, Singapore Customs and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. She also has experience in coordinating cross border matters involving investigations by the US DOJ, UK SFO, the MACC in Malaysia and the KPK in Indonesia.

Weiyi also advises clients on the design and implementation of their compliance programs, with a focus on anti-bribery and data privacy compliance programs. In recent years, her practice has also expanded to include advice on compliance with sanctions and modern slavery laws. These projects involve undertaking risk assessments to identify risk areas, drafting compliance policies to address these risks, assisting with the training of employees/third parties and addressing instances of non-compliance when they occur. As part of the compliance program, she further advises clients on their internal investigation protocols, employee disciplinary processes and dawn raid procedures.

As a litigator, she represents clients in litigation and arbitration proceedings involving international trade, employment, intellectual property, probate and general commercial disputes. She is also an experienced mediator and arbitrator, having been appointed to the panels of the Singapore Mediation Centre and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre.

Weiyi serves as President of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners’ (ACFE) Singapore Chapter and Honorary Treasurer of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. She is also a Certified Privacy Manager with the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Weiyi authored the Singapore Chapter of the International Comparative Legal Guide – Corporate Investigations 2022 and regularly speaks on topics related to compliance, ethics and investigations at local and international conferences. She is also the recipient of several awards, and most recently nominated in 2021 for “Lawyer of the Year – White Collar Crime” at the Euromoney Women in Business Law Awards and “Litigator of the Year – South East Asia” at the Asian Legal Business (ALB) Women in Law Awards.