Danny Ong

Danny specialises in complex international commercial and financial disputes and investigations across a multitude of industries. In particular, he is deeply experienced in cross-border financial disputes – from those involving fintech, complex financial products, blockchain and cryptocurrencies, commodities, bonds, market manipulation, insider trading, layering and spoofing, and investigations into interest-rate fixing, currency fixing, and money laundering, to name a few. Most recently, he successfully prosecuted the first cryptocurrency claim before the Singapore International Commercial Court, which raise raised novel and complex legal issues as to the nature and trading of cyrptocurrencies.

On the fraud and asset recovery front, Danny is regularly called upon to investigate and prosecute claims involving complex multi-jurisdictional corporate and commercial fraud, and the recovery of misappropriated assets globally, most recently arising from the Malaysian 1MDB debacle. He is the sole Singapore member of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Fraudnet, an international network of independent leading civil asset recovery specialists. Danny has been recognised by Who’s Who Legal as amongst the Global Elite and one of 40 Thought Leaders in the field of asset recovery globally.

Danny has also acted and continues to act in some of the largest and most comp...