About
Datuk N. Sivananthan is a senior Malaysian criminal defence advocate and Founding Partner at Sivananthan with over three decades of continuous practice in serious and complex criminal litigation. He is noted for handling capital offences, corporate and financial crime, anti-corruption and regulatory matters, and appears regularly at all levels of the Malaysian courts including the Federal Court.
Practice areas
Criminal DefenceWhite-Collar CrimeAnti-CorruptionRegulatory EnforcementAppellate Litigation
Office
Expertise
MACC investigationsAnti-Money Laundering (AMLA) mattersSecurities and regulatory offencesCapital drug prosecutionsMurder and firearms trialsLarge-scale fraudPreventive detention regimesInternational Criminal Court (ICC) matters
Education
- LLB (Hons), University of Warwick
- Barrister, Lincoln's Inn
Admissions
- Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore
- Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya
- Counsel, International Criminal Court (ICC)
Languages
EnglishMalayTamil