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FAVIAN KANG
DIRECTOR, Counsel
Favian Kang is a seasoned dispute resolution and criminal defence lawyer. He frequently conducts Court trials and appears at all levels of the Singapore Courts.
Favian takes pride in doing his best, going the extra mile, and leaving no stone unturned for all his clients and every piece of work to deliver strategic, value-added, and practical solutions and positive outcomes.
Criminal Defence
Favian is an experienced criminal defence lawyer. Favian represented clients in many high-profile and complex criminal cases in a full range of offences from money laundering, corruption, cheating and falsification of accounts offences to murder, drug trafficking, sexual and syndicated offences.
On several occasions, Favian obtained favorable outcomes for his clients – acquittals, withdrawn charges, and reduced sentences. Favian is a criminal defence lawyer with unique insight into all stages of the criminal justice system and is well-placed to guide his clients through the entire process.
Favian’s experience in commercial, financial, and corporate governance matters gives him an edge in defending clients charged with white-collar offences.
Favian defended an individual in Singapore’s biggest billion-dollar money laundering case, individuals charged with falsification of accounts arising from the Auditor-General’s Office’s audit of government projects, corruption involving a foreign embassy official, the bunkering industry, and the cheating of financial institutions.
Dispute resolution
Favian is well-versed in a wide range of dispute resolution work. Favian acts for companies, directors, shareholders, professionals, and other individuals from various industries such as finance, hospitality, healthcare, and property development.
Favian often acts in disputes involving private and listed companies, hostile takeovers, calling and conducting of extraordinary general meetings, minority oppression of shareholders, joint venture fall outs, diversion of corporate opportunities, misuse of company assets, solicitation of customers, suppliers and staff, restraint of trade and misrepresentation on deals.
Favian is experienced in acting for distressed companies, creditors, directors, and shareholders in insolvency and restructuring matters, and has acted in several contentious applications for winding up, schemes of arrangement, and judicial management.
Outside of Practice
As a former national athlete who represented Singapore in Muaythai for the Asian and World Championships, Favian is a determined and tenacious individual who thrives in high-stress situations.
Favian gives back to the community by acting as assigned counsel in pro-bono schemes and is a committee member of HUG Community Services Limited which is a non-profit charity that works with at-risk youths and inmates on rehabilitation and reintegration.
Notable Experience and Cases
- Acted for the independent directors of Fu Yu Corporation Limited in a hostile shareholder’s requisitions for extraordinary general meetings to remove the independent directors (2025).
- Acted for a woman charged with the murder of her boyfriend. After trial, the woman was sentenced to life imprisonment instead of death (2025).
- Acted for a man facing a capital charge of drug trafficking and secured a reduction of the capital charge. The man was sentenced to imprisonment instead of death (2025).
- Obtained the lowest sentence and earliest release for one of the defendants in Singapore’s biggest billion-dollar money laundering case (2024).
- Acted for the directors and shareholders of a prominent construction company against an opposing director and shareholder in a dispute involving the company’s assets, corporate governance and the winding up of the company (2024).
- Acted for a man accused of being a leader of an international insider trading and money laundering syndicate in extradition proceedings (2024).
- Acted for the board of directors of ASTI Holdings Limited to defeat a hostile takeover by shareholders who conducted an extraordinary general meeting by excluding the board. Persuaded the General Division of the High Court that section 177 of the Companies Act does not give shareholders the power to conduct an extraordinary general meeting (2023).
- Acted for a director of Singapore cryptocurrency platform Hodlnaut Pte Ltd in judicial management and companies winding up proceedings (2023).
- Acted for a group of shareholders of 2 popular food-and-beverage companies (which are home to supercar enthusiasts’ clubs) in convening extraordinary ordinary general meetings to remove old directors and appoint new directors to take over control of the companies (2023).
- Acted for an ultra-high-net-worth individual in securing the release of his assets that were frozen by the banks and authorities due to lapses by the corporate service provider in setting up his family office in Singapore (2023).
- Obtained a lower sentence than what the Prosecution submitted for in the General Division of the High Court for a man charged with multiple offences of sexual penetration of a minor, attempted statutory rape, sexual grooming of a minor and obtaining for consideration sexual services of a person below 18 years of age (2023).
- Obtained an acquittal for a C-suite executive of an international advertising agency who was charged with outrage of modesty of a colleague at a company dinner and dance event (2022).
- Acted for a financial media personality against an investment firm in a dispute involving wrongful dismissal, salary and bonus claims, joining a competing business, confidential information and trade secrets (2022).
- Acted for a group of shareholders in their requisitioning of an extraordinary general meeting of Ecowise Holdings Limited (2021).
- Acted for several ultra-high-net-worth individuals and owners against minority co-owners in a dispute involving of a plot of land in Singapore comprising of more than 10 terrace houses (2021).
- Acted for a local celebrity against a management agency in a dispute involving restraint of trade clauses and management fees (2021).
- Obtained an acquittal for a man charged with the murder of a family member (2020).
- Obtained an acquittal – on appeal – for a man facing a capital drug charge of attempting to possess diamorphine for the purposes of trafficking (2020).
- Acted in an appeal against sentences of fines given for the offences of falsification of accounts which arose during a government audit of a public sector project. The appeal was dismissed, and the sentences of fines were upheld (2019).
- Acted for a group of medical doctors in a dispute involving management control, dividend payments and unfair buyout offer and obtained a winding up of a private medical practice on the just and equitable ground (2019).
- Acted for a shareholder and director of an insurance company against other shareholders and directors in a dispute over dividend payments, management rights, and valuation of shares. Negotiated and obtained a favourable buyout (2018).
- Acted for a corporate creditor in opposing a construction company’s application for a scheme of arrangement in the High Court and the Court of Appeal (2018).
- Obtained sentences of fines for the director and manager of a construction company charged with falsification of accounts, which arose during a government audit of a public sector project (2017).
- Acted for one of the defendants charged with murder in the Rowell Road Suitcase Murder case (2017)
- Acted for a defendant facing a capital drug charge of trafficking methamphetamine and proved the courier defence which enabled the defendant to avoid the death penalty (2017).
- Acted for an electrical engineering company against the MCST of a condominium in a dispute involving the construction of the condominium in Singapore (2016).
- Acted for a mechanical engineering company and its senior executive against the senior executive’s former employers in a dispute involving breach of directors’ duties, breach of confidence and trade secrets, inducing breach of contract, and conspiracy (2016).
- Acted for a hospitality and food-and-beverage company, its controlling shareholder and director against an industry competitor in a dispute involving confidential information and trade secrets and soliciting of customers, suppliers, and staff members (2015).
- Acted for the minority shareholders and directors of a construction and property development company against the majority shareholder and director in a dispute involving conduct of an extraordinary general meeting, use of company assets, and change of business (2015).
- Acted for a defendant charged with 74 counts of sexual penetration of a minor (2015).
- Obtained an acquittal for a man charged with voluntarily causing hurt by means of an instrument to his family member (2014).
- Acted for an education company in a franchise dispute involving intellectual property rights and soliciting of teachers and students (2014).
- Acted for subsidiary proprietors against an MCST and its council members in a dispute over the use of management and sinking funds and the management of a commercial property (2013).
- Acted for a Singapore company and its shareholders and directors against other shareholders and directors and a joint venture partner in a dispute over a joint venture real estate project in Hangzhou involving breach of directors’ duties, minority oppression and conspiracy (2012).
Reported Judgments
- Public Prosecutor v Nguyen Ngoc Giau [2025] SGHC 197
- Public Prosecutor v Ng Soon Kiat [2025] SGHC 48
- Public Prosecutor v Phua Chia Ping Benny [2025] SGDC 13
- Tan Yew Huat v Sin Joo Huat Hardware Pte Ltd and another matter [2024] SGCA 27
- Zhang Jinhua v Yip Zhao Lin [2024] SGHC 180, [2024] 5 SLR 1046
- Ng Yew Nam and others v Loh Sin Hock Anthony and others and another matter [2023] SGHC 351, [2024] 4 SLR 759
- Loh Cheng Lee Aaron and another v Hodlnaut Pte Ltd (Zhu Juntao and others, non-parties) [2023] SGHC 323, [2024] 4 SLR 1683
- Public Prosecutor v Khor Khai Gin Davis [2023] SGHC 304, [2024] 4 SLR 1012
- Tan Yew Huat v Sin Joo Huat Hardware Pte Ltd and another matter [2023] SGHC 276
- Bay Lim Piang v Lye Cher Kang [2023] SGHC 13, [2023] 5 SLR 602
- Public Prosecutor v GFP [2023] SGMC 15
- Tan Kok Meng v Public Prosecutor [2021] SGCA 55, [2021] 2 SLR 403
- Han Fang Guan v Public Prosecutor [2020] SGCA 11, [2020] 1 SLR 649
- Public Prosecutor v Tan Kok Meng [2020] SGHC 225, [2021] 4 SLR 507
- Public Prosecutor v Tan Swim Hong and others [2019] SGHC 246
- Public Prosecutor v Leow Ban Leong and another and another appeal [2019] SGHC 29
- Prospaq Group Pte Ltd v Yong Xing Construction Pte Ltd [2018] SGHC 27
- Public Prosecutor v Leow Ban Leong and Foo Fang Liong [2018] SGDC 157
- Muhammad bin Abdullah v Public Prosecutor and another appeal [2017] SGCA 4, [2017] 1 SLR 427
- Public Prosecutor v Tan Kah Ho and another [2017] SGHC 61
- Public Prosecutor v Rasheed Muhammad and another [2017] SGHC 29
- Lim Yew Ming v Aik Chuan Construction Pte Ltd and others [2015] SGHC 101, [2015] 3 SLR 931
- Public Prosecutor v Yap Weng Wah [2015] SGHC 76, [2015] 3 SLR 297
- Total English Learning Global and another v Kids Counsel Pte Ltd and another suit [2014] SGHC 258
- Cleantech Partners Hangzhou Pte Ltd and another v Han Cheng Fong and others [2013] SGHC 52
- Han Cheng Fong v Teo Chong Nghee Patrick and others [2013] SGHC 51
Appointments & Memberships
- Inquiry Panel
Appointed by the Honorable the Chief Justice to the Inquiry Panel. - Legal Assistance Scheme for Capital Offences
Lead Counsel on the Supreme Court’s register of counsel for the Legal Assistance Scheme for Capital Offences. - Criminal Legal Aid Scheme
Volunteer Lawyer - HUG Community Services Ltd
Committee Member
