Gerallt Owen

Gerallt Owen is a managing director in the Cyber Risk practice, who will be based in the Singapore office. He has over 23 years of experience handling high-profile and complex cross-border fraud, insider trading, tax fraud, money laundering, market abuse and corruption investigations and prosecutions, and multi-jurisdiction investigations. Given that all of these types of investigations are underpinned by technology, Gerallt drives the convergence of technology and traditional cyber skillsets in the effective handling of complex cases.

Gerallt has advised on high-profile investigations and proceedings in the United Kingdom brought by the Serious Fraud Office; Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (DBEIS); Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC); Crown Prosecution Service (CPS); Health and Safety Executive (HSE); Trading Standards departments; Competition and Markets Authority (CMA); Financial Conduct Authority (FCA); Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA); Financial Reporting Council (FRC); Lloyds of London; and various professional and sporting disciplinary bodies. He has also assisted corporations and financial institutions on global regulatory compliance issues.

Previously, Gerallt worked as a Senior Equity Partner, and Global Head of International Regulatory and Corporate Crime at Withers Khattar Wong in Singapore, where he served as a member of the Asia management team. He also served as an equity partner and head of International Regulatory and Corporate Crime at the London Office of Crowell & Moring LLP, a leading Washington, D.C., firm with a strong reputation in handling business crime matters.

Gerallt’s speaking engagements include lectures on the implications of the UK Bribery Act and anti-bribery strategy and procedures in China, Japan, Singapore, the U.S., Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. He was the keynote speaker at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) on Conducting Internal Corporate Investigations in Singapore. For several years, he was also the consultant editor of Lexis Nexis' legal text, Fraud: Law, Practice and Procedure.

Gerallt has received many accolades. He has been listed in “The Lawyer HOT 100” and recommended by the Chambers & Partners Global Guides in both the UK and Singapore sections as a foreign expert based in Singapore for dispute resolution. For several years, Legal 500 recommended him for fraud work, specifically for white-collar crime, and corporate and regulatory investigations. Gerallt was also recommended in three areas of law in the International Who's Who Legal for business crime defense, asset recovery and investigations.

Gerallt holds a B.A. (Honors) in Law with Marketing from De Montfort University, Leicester. He also pursued and successfully completed the Law Society Final Examination at the College of Law Chester, in the UK. He was admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales in 1995 and in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) in 2012.

Gerallt has been an intervention agent for the Solicitors Regulation Authority of England and Wales. He has also been a member of the Disciplinary Panel of the Academy of Experts. Previously, he was also the inaugural chairman of the Young Fraud Lawyers Association in the UK. He is fluent in both English and Welsh.