Colin Ng & Partners has announced that former senior state counsel Glenn Knight will join the firm as a partner in its dispute resolution and FIRST (global financial crisis response team) groups. Knight joins the firm from Bernard & Rada Law Corp (B&R) where he was a consultant.

Prior to his stint with B&R, Knight served in the Singapore Legal service where he handled major fraud and tax evasion cases and was responsible for setting up the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) where he was director from 1984 to 1991.

Knight's career is notable for a number of reasons in addition to those above.

In 1994, after being tried and convicted of fraud relating to investments in an Indonesian country club on the island of Batam, Knight was disbarred by the Law Society of Singapore (LSS) and later had a second conviction on two counts of misappropriation. Knight was granted an application to be reinstated as a lawyer in May 2007— the only person to be granted such a request in the LSS's 35-year history.