Navin Thevar

Director

Admission

  • Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore

Education

  • LL.B. (Hons), National University of Singapore (2009)
Navin Thevar is a co-founder and Director of RCLT Law Corporation.
 
Navin has acted for listed companies, multi-national corporations, high net-worth individuals, Ministers and foreign governments in a wide-range of criminal and civil matters.
 
Navin started his practice at Drew & Napier after being called to the Singapore Bar in 2014. He then joined Davinder Singh Chambers, working with Davinder Singh SC for almost 11 years.
Prior to that, he was a Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) in the Economic Crimes and Governance Division of the Attorney-General’s Chambers of Singapore (AGC). 

As DPP, Navin specialised in, and conducted numerous prosecutions on behalf of the State for, financial crimes such as fraud, corruption, money-laundering and securities-related offences.

In 2012, Navin was the first DPP to be seconded to the Singapore Exchange. He also served as the AGC’s representative in the Singapore delegations to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global money-laundering and terrorist-financing watchdog.
 
Navin graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2009.
 
At NUS, he won the Peter English Memorial Prize for the top-performing student in the Criminal Law course, the Alexander Stone Scottish national moots while on exchange at the University of Glasgow, appearing in the final before Lord Robert John Reed, the President of the Supreme Court of the UK. He was also a finalist in the Jean-Pictet moot competition.

Please email info@rclt.com.sg for a more detailed CV on any particular practice area.

Representative Portfolio

  • Defending a Minister in Singapore in relation to charges of corruption and offences under section 165 of the Penal Code, the first reported case in Singapore involving a prosecution under the said section.: S Iswaran v PP [2024] 4 SLR 965; PP v S Iswaran [2025] 3 SLR 403.
  • Defending the former Manging Director of Singapore’s largest oil trading company in relation to charges of forgery and cheating PP v Lim Oon Kuin [2025] SGDC 36.
  • Acting for the Attorney-General’s Chambers of Brunei Darussalam in a series of prosecutions for corruption and criminal breach of trust, as well as in the first-ever contested application for confiscation and benefit recovery orders under the Brunei Confiscation and Asset Recovery Order 2012: Aidah Tengah v PP (COACM 18/2016), Latifah Junaidi v PP (COACM 4/2017), PP v Mohd Azam Zaki (Criminal Trial 6/2015),  Ramzidah Abdul Rahman & Nabil Daraina v PP (COACM 4/2020).
  • Acting for the former Chief Minister of Sabah in connection with the seizure of the client’s monies in Singapore by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau.
  • Acting for a multi-national corporation in obtaining a landmark order to inspect and take copies of all documents relating to an application by the Attorney-General of Singapore for a production order under the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act: BSD v Attorney-General [2019] SGHC 118.
  • Acting for a Singapore listed-company against two of its directors in an action for minority oppression: Sakae Holdings Ltd v Gryphon Real Estate Corp Pte Ltd & Ors [20017] SGHC 73; Ho Yew Kong v Sakae Holdings Ltd [2018] 2 SLR 333.
  • Defending the director of Envy Global Trading Pte Ltd in both criminal and civil proceedings concerning what Bloomberg news described as being “perhaps the largest scam, in terms of dollars lost” in Singapore’s history.
  • Prosecuting a former assistant director of the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau for criminal breach of trust, forgery and money-laundering offences:  PP v Yeo Seow Hiong Edwin [2014] SGDC 70
  • Acted for Vertex Ventures, the venture capital arm of Temasek Holdings, in its early-stage investments in start-ups including Speedoc, IVF Access, Instarem, Paktor, Patsnap, Spacemob, Turnkey Lender, Get, Hertzwell and Clearbridge Biomedics. 
  • Acted for Nium, a global enterprise payments platform, in its Series B to D fundraising rounds amounting to over US$250 million by, inter alia, Riverwood Capital, Temasek Holdings, GIC, Visa, Vertex Ventures, Rocket Capital, GSR Ventures, Atinum Investment and Global Founders Capital.
  • Acted for Reebonz, an online luxury marketplace and platform, in its Series D fundraising round of US$50 million by, inter alia, MediaCorp and in a SPAC transaction and subsequently listing on NASDAQ.
  • Acted for Property Guru, Southeast Asia’s leading property website, in its Series C fundraising round of US$44 million by ImmobilienScout24.
  • Acted for Patsnap, a global patent search and analysis platform, in its Series B round of US$12 million by Summit Partners. 
  • Acted for UnoAsia, the parent of UNO Digital Bank in the Philippines in its pre-Series A fundraising round of US$11 million by Creador, a Malaysian private equity firm.
  • Acted for Certis, an advanced integrated security services organisation, in its joint venture with Lendlease, an Australian Property firm, to redevelop Certis Cisco Centre.
  • Acted for Little Farms Group in its merger with Farm Fresh Foods and Farm ‘n Pantry to create the leading gourmet organic grocer in Singapore. 
  • Acted for shareholders of Qanvast, a home renovation platform, in a majority stake acquisition by Livspace, a Singapore-based home interior and renovation platform.
  • Acted for Energy Market Authority in its sale of Energy Market Company to a subsidiary of the Singapore Exchange.
  • Acted for Rockwell Collins Inc, a provider of avionics and information technology systems and services, in its purchase of Pacific Avionics, a company specializing in technologies used for wireless information distribution, including inflight entertainment and connectivity.
  • Acted for an international shipping group in its cross-border restructuring exercise involving assets in Singapore, Indonesia and Germany.
  • Acted for a South American group in its cross-border restructuring exercise involving assets in Chile, the Middle East, Singapore and the United States.