With a degree in accountancy and more than ten years of experience in working with companies in distress, Karen puts to good use her expertise and helps clients navigate and meet the legal, commercial, and at times cultural challenges, when projects are outside national borders. Other than liquidation assignements, she is also involved in litigation support, receivership, judicial management and scheme of arrangement.. Her career highlights include discovering fraudulent transactions amounting to half a million dollars by the directors of a construction company, successfully investigating the fraudulent withdrawal of funds by director for personal use and payment to third parties without supporting documents (total amount involved S$3m) reviewing transactions of an Indonesian company to determine whether there were breaches of the foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and conducting investigations on a Malaysian company to determine whether alleged employees were involved in corrupt practices.
Current role