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Ankit Bahri is a Senior Associate in the Singapore office and a member of the firm’s Government Matters Group. As both a private practice attorney and in-house counsel, Ankit has represented multi-national clients in a wide range of contentious matters, including investigations, compliance advisory, litigation, and international arbitration. In particular, Ankit has assisted clients in the energy, engineering and construction, financial services, pharmaceutical, shipping, and technology sectors.
A U.S.-trained attorney, Ankit has advised clients on government and regulatory investigations relating to fraud, sanctions compliance, money laundering, securities enforcement, and public corruption. Ankit has worked on investigations involving various international regulators, including the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission, the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority, the U.K. Prudential Regulation Authority, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
In 2021, Ankit was seconded to the Singapore office of a large public pension fund, where he helped manage compliance reviews, focused on identifying potential concerns relating to bribery, corruption, and money laundering, of the fund’s investment opportunities in Asia and Australia. He has continued to advise clients on compliance due diligence matters since his return to private practice.
Between 2019 and 2020, Ankit worked in the Disputes and Government Investigations Legal team at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore, where he managed government and regulatory investigations, as well as local and cross-border disputes, in jurisdictions across South and Southeast Asia. He also managed internal investigations for the Bank into allegations of employee misconduct, bribery, corruption, and money laundering.
Ankit also has substantial experience representing clients in domestic and cross-border litigation in U.S. federal and state courts and in disputes arising under the ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, LMAA, and LCIA Rules of Arbitration. Ankit's experience spans disputes arising under contract, tort, antitrust, intellectual property, legal malpractice, anticorruption, and securities laws.
At the start of his career, Ankit practiced at two top-tier U.S. law firms in New York and Washington, D.C., where he worked on a wide variety of matters including commercial litigation, international arbitration, white collar and criminal defense, patent law, and government investigations.
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