Sanjiv Kumar Rajan

Practice Areas

Employment, Health and Safety; International Arbitration; Litigation; White Collar & Investigations

Career

Sanjiv is a litigator with more than two decades of experience, in practice areas spanning litigation, arbitration and white-collar crime and investigations.

A market leader, Sanjiv is regularly instructed in high profile white-collar defence and fraud investigations work, commercial disputes, international and domestic arbitrations and employment, and health and safety investigations and prosecutions.

In terms of white-collar defence and investigations, Sanjiv advises clients on matters involving corruption, criminal breach of trust, insider trading and money-laundering. He remains counsel of choice on regulatory investigations and was lead defence counsel for the Noble group in one of the largest regulatory investigations launched by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority under the Securities and Futures Act and the Companies Act.

In terms of commercial practice, Sanjiv is regularly instructed on shareholder disputes, minority oppression, and derivative actions. On the arbitration front, he is involved as counsel in both international domestic arbitrations before the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and the International Chamber of Commerce and has successfully acted for clients in proceedings before the courts challenging arbitral awards.

Recently appointed as co-head of the Employment, Health & Safety Practice, Sanjiv has extensive experience in advising and representing clients in respect of employment, health and safety matters. He regularly acts for and advises clients on employment disputes, ranging from restraint of trade to wrongful dismissal, retrenchment, and disciplinary inquiries. For Health and Safety, he is also counsel of choice in relation to inquiries, investigations, and defence work relating to large-scale industrial accidents, chemical leakage and pollution.

Professional Memberships

Fellow, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. Principal Mediator, Singapore Mediation Centre. Chairman, Admissions Committee of the Law Society of Singapore. Board of Directors, School of the Arts. Member, Programmes Committee of the Singapore Business Federation Foundation. Member, Resource Pool of committee members for the Yellow Ribbon Fund. Honorary legal adviser, Hao Ren Hao Shi. Lead Counsel, Legal Assistance for Capital Offence Scheme administered by the Supreme Court. Senior Trainer, Singapore Institute of Legal Education. Advocacy Trainer, National University of Singapore. Mediation Advocacy Trainer, Singapore Mediation Centre.