Philip Fong

Philip Fong is the Managing Partner of Harry Elias Partnership LLP, Head of Financial Crime and Co-Head of Civil and Commercial Litigation, focusing on White Collar Crime.

Philip’s extensive experience in civil litigation includes disputes in or over contracts, shares, companies, property, professional negligence, trusts and wills. He is consistently identified as a leading business crime lawyer, having represented many clients in securities and corruption cases.

His career started with the Commercial Affairs Department, the specialist enforcement agency which prosecutes white collar crimes, where he was the first head of the agency’s Anti-Money Laundering unit. His advice is constantly sought on insider trading and market manipulation, regulatory compliance (directors’ duties and governance) and medical malpractice. He has acted as prosecuting counsel for professional bodies such as the Singapore Medical Council against doctors and accountants, and his high-profile cases in the Supreme Court include judicial reviews and challenges to collective sale agreements of condominiums.

Apart from court work, Philip handles arbitrations seated in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia, and is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. He is the author of Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore Volume 14(4), Medical Negligence and Professional Misconduct (2025).

He has been highly recommended as a star name and leading lawyer by publications including The Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal, Asian Legal Business, Best Lawyers, Asialaw Profiles and Doyle’s Guide. His recognitions include ‘Litigation Star’ for White Collar Crime by Benchmark Litigation Asia Pacific (2025–2026), ‘Leading Practitioner’ for White Collar Crime & Regulatory Investigations by Doyle’s Guide (2026), and ‘Ranked Practitioner’ for Arbitration and Mediation by Best Lawyers Singapore and Global (2021–2027).

Philip holds a Bachelor of Laws (Second Class Honours, Upper Division) from the University of London and a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from the University of Adelaide. He is a member of the Singapore Academy of Law, The Honourable Society of Inner Temple, and The Law Society of Singapore.