Yuet Ming Tham, global co-leader of Sidley’s White Collar Defense and Investigations practice, head of the Litigation group in Asia, and leader of the Asia-Pacific Compliance and Investigations practice, has been shortlisted in the “Investigations Professional of the Year” category at Global Investigations Review’s GIR Awards 2024. The GIR Awards are international and “celebrate the people and firms behind the past year’s most dazzling investigations and court cases.” Winners will be announced at an awards event in Washington, D.C., on November 14, 2024.
Global Investigations Review has highlighted Yuet’s support to “corporate heavyweights” and her key role in a team that has “over the last decade acted on more than 450 investigations across Asia, Europe and the Middle East.”
Yuet is qualified in England and Wales, New York, Singapore and Hong Kong. She focuses on the FCPA, corporate compliance and investigations, sanctions, privacy, cybersecurity, and employment law. She has led investigations and compliance projects across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, and has counselled clients on matters involving the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. SEC, FINRA, the HK Securities and Futures Commission, as well as investigations by other enforcement agencies in Asia. Most recently, Yuet led investigations in India, China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Australia, Nepal, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Nigeria, South Africa, and Algeria. She has experience across a broad range of industries but has a special focus on the life sciences and technology industries.
