WENDELL WONG HIN PKIN Independent Director
Date of first appointment as a director: 01 January 2020
Date of last re-election as a director: 28 April 2023
Length of service as a director (as at 31 December 2023): 4 years
Committee Memberships: Nominating Committee (Chairman), Remuneration Committee
Academic & Professional Qualifications: LL.B.(Hons), National University of Singapore (1997); Attorney-General’s Chambers, Singapore (1997-2000); Advocate & Solicitor, England & Wales (2002)
Date of last re-election as a director: 28 April 2023
Length of service as a director (as at 31 December 2023): 4 years
Committee Memberships: Nominating Committee (Chairman), Remuneration Committee
Academic & Professional Qualifications: LL.B.(Hons), National University of Singapore (1997); Attorney-General’s Chambers, Singapore (1997-2000); Advocate & Solicitor, England & Wales (2002)
Present Directorships (as at 31 December 2023)
Listed Companies:
- GSH Corporation Limited
Non-listed Companies:
- Drew & Napier LLC
- Housing and Development Board
- NTUC Foundation Limited
- MILK (Mainly I love Kids)
- Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)
Past Directorships over the last 3 years (2021 to 2023):
- Law Society Pro Bono Services
Background and Working Experience
- Attorney General’s Chambers: Deputy Public Prosecutor/State Counsel (1997 to 2000)
- Drew & Napier (2000 till present)
Major Appointments (other than Directorships)
- Member of Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, Singapore
- Member of Penal Code Review Committee 2018, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Law
- Regional Representative Asia Pacific of International Bar Association’s Anti-Corruption Committee
- Coordinator, IBA ACC-International Chamber of Commerce: Joint Task Force on Issues of Corruption in International Arbitration, 2021
Awards
- Chambers Asia-Pacific
- Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption 2024 – Band 2 for 3 consecutive years
- Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption: Domestic – 2023 Band 2 for 4
- Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption: Domestic – 2021 Band 3
- Chambers Global 2015
- Indonesia: Dispute Resolution (International Firms) (Experts Based Abroad) – Indonesia – Band 2
- Asia Pacific Legal 500
- White-Collar Crime 2024 – Recommended lawyer for 3 consecutive years
- Dispute Resolution 2024 – Recommended lawyer for 2 consecutive years
- White-Collar Crime 2023 – Recommended lawyer for 3 consecutive years
- Dispute Resolution 2023 – Recommended lawyer
- Dispute Resolution 2021 – Recommended lawyer for 4 consecutive years
- White-Collar Crime 2020 – Recommended lawyer
- Who’s Who Legal
- Thought Leaders Global Elite: Investigations 2023 – Global Elite Thought Leader for 2 consecutive years
- Thought Leaders: GIR – Business Crime Defence (Corporates 2022) – Thought Leader
- National Leader: Southeast Asia, Business Crime Defence 2022 – Recommended for 2 consecutive years
- National Leader: Southeast Asia, Investigations 2022 – Recommended for 2 consecutive years
- Global Leader: Business Crim Defence (Corporates 2021) – Recommended lawyer for 9 consecutive years
- Global Leader: Business Crim Defence (Individuals 2021) – Recommended lawyer for 9 consecutive years
- Global Leader: Investigations 2021 – Global Elite Thought Leader
- Global Leader: Professional Negligence 2021 – Recommended lawyer for 2 consecutive years
- Business Crime Defence 2020 – Recommended lawyer for 8 consecutive years
- Investigations 2020 – Recommended lawyer for 7 consecutive years
- Professional Negligence 2020 – Recommended lawyer
- Global Investigations Review 100 (GIR 100) 5th edition (2019) – Recognised as a leading individual for investigations
- Best Lawyers International: Singapore
- Criminal Defence, Singapore – Lawyer of the Year (2023 edition)
- Criminal Defence, Singapore – Endorsed individual for 3 consecutive years (2022 edition)
- Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2020 edition
- White Collar Crime – Litigation Star for 5 consecutive years
- International Law Office
- White Collar Crime – Recommended lawyer