Overview
Muzhaffar plays a key role as part of our Litigation, Arbitration and Investigation practice specialising in complex cross-border investigations and disputes, and compliance advisory.
Muzhaffar also demonstrates a special interest in handling regulatory and business sensitive investigations and crisis management, including in particular technically complex market misconduct allegations, effectively balancing client’s needs with regulatory requirements.
Having recently been seconded to an international technology conglomerate, Muzhaffar brings client-side knowledge and an understanding of client expectations to each case he handles. Muzhaffar also regularly assists clients with compliance advice, including anti-bribery and corruption, anti-money laundering and sanctions advice, transactional due diligence and post-transaction uplifts, and general compliance reviews.
Muzhaffar also has experience in acting in Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and ICC International Court of Arbitration (ICC) arbitrations across the Asia Pacific region, navigating clients through the often challenging disputes process.
Work highlights
Investigations
- Advising a multinational bank on multiple internal investigations into whistleblower complaints received by the bank against traders in relation to alleged collusion with external parties and market misconduct including allegations of spoofing, market manipulation and front-running.
- Assisting a multinational bank on a long-running investigation into numerous whistle-blower allegations of market misconduct, including market manipulation and front-running, by members of an equities trading team in Asia.
- Assisting a multinational bank on an investigation into any misuse or disclosure of MNPI in relation to specific block trades, arising out of enquiries from an Asian regulator.
- Assisting a multinational bank on a review of potential sponsor liability arising from the public collapse of a listed security on an Asian market.
- Assisting a professional services firm on an investigation, into alleged widespread use of technological tools to cheat on assessments, including advising on dealings with US regulators.
- Assisting a professional services firm on an investigation into alleged deliberate concealment of information in the context of the client’s internal clearance process in Malaysia.
- Assisting a professional services firm on an investigation into potential financial manipulation and other serious allegations by regional senior leadership.
Crisis Management
- Assisting a global professional services firm in relation to crisis management and a subsequent internal investigation relating to serious misconduct in one APAC jurisdiction that had global implications.
- Assisting an insurer in ongoing crisis management and dispute resolution arising out of its arrangements with a local distributor in an Asian market arising out of a potentially unauthorised and illegal distribution scheme.
- Assisting a local Asian bank in crisis management and dispute resolution arising out of changes in local laws affecting a distribution agreement with a global insurer.
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