Our Expertise
Criminal Defence
We frequently act in high profile cases. We are always in your corner and will support you every step of the way from investigations to the conclusion of the case. We understand that your life, career, family, and reputation are at stake and the stress and emotions that you go through. We will fight hand in glove and stand back-to-back with you.
We frequently act for clients during investigations, trials, appeals or in plead guilty scenarios in a full range of offences:
- Money-laundering, corruption
- Cheating, criminal breach of trust, falsification of accounts, dishonest misappropriation
- False trading, market rigging or manipulation, false or misleading statements, fraudulently inducing persons to deal in capital markets products
- Murder, causing hurt, wrongful restraint, using criminal force, robbery, criminal trespass, criminal intimidation
- Rape, sexual assault involving penetration, sexual penetration of a minor, sexual grooming, outrage of modesty, voyeurism
- Drink driving, reckless or dangerous driving, driving without due care or reasonable consideration
- Tax and custom duties evasion, providing false information to government agencies, offences under the Workplace Safety and Health Act
Notable Cases by Mr Favian Kang
- Obtained the lowest sentence and earliest release for one of the defendants in Singapore’s biggest billion-dollar money laundering case. In oral judgment, the Honourable District Judge agreed with our submission that there was a higher level of criminality in another defendant’s case.
- Acted for a man accused of being the leader of an international insider trading and money laundering syndicate in extradition proceedings.
- 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.
- Obtained an acquittal for a man charged with the murder of a family member.
- Obtained an acquittal – on appeal – for a man facing a capital drug charge of attempting to possess diamorphine for the purposes of trafficking.
- Obtained an acquittal for a man charged with voluntarily causing hurt by means of an instrument to his family member.
- Obtained sentences of fines for the director and manager of a development company charged with falsification of accounts, which arose during a government audit of a public sector project.
- 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.
- Secured a discharge amounting to an acquittal of several cheating charges against a director of an events management company.
- Acted for a woman charged with the murder of her boyfriend in Ang Mo Kio. After trial, the woman was sentenced to life imprisonment instead of death.
- 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.
- Acted for a man facing a capital drug charge of trafficking methamphetamine and succeeded in the courier defence which enabled the man to avoid the death penalty.
- Acted for a man charged with murder in the Rowell Road Suitcase Murder case.
