David Chong Kok Kong () is a lawyer and business owner. Chong is the founder and president of the
Portcullis Group
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, which provides wealth advisory services. He is the executive chairman of Fusang – the
Asian Family Office, owned by his family.
Law career
Chong is a director of
David Chong Law Corporation, Singapore. Chong is a qualified
barrister
A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions. Barristers mostly specialise in courtroom advocacy and litigation. Their tasks include taking cases in superior courts and tribunals, drafting legal pleadings, researching law and ...
in the United Kingdom. He is also an advocate and solicitor, Singapore; Malaysia and Brunei; barrister and solicitor in
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, Australia; solicitor in
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, Australia.
Wealth advisory career
Chong is the founder of Portcullis Group services. In 2013, Chong's Portcullis TrustNet firm came under the spotlight as the
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) singled out the company as a wealth management firm that uses that offshore loopholes for wealthy individuals to
evade tax
Tax evasion is an illegal attempt to defeat the imposition of taxes by individuals, corporations, trusts, and others. Tax evasion often entails the deliberate misrepresentation of the taxpayer's affairs to the tax authorities to reduce the tax ...
The allegations surfaced as an independent contractor leaked its clients' data to the ICIJ.
David Chong also owns
Lintel Securities and the
Fusang Group of companies.
Other appointments
Chong is the President of the
Singapore Trustees Association (STA). He served as the Founding President of
Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (STEP) Singapore Branch, and was the Founding President of the S
ingapore Fund Administrators Association (SFAA). He also sits on the Investment Committee of the
Singapore Academy of Law.
He is a fellow of
Harris Manchester College
Harris Manchester College is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It was founded in Warrington in 1757 as a college for Unitarianism, Unitarian students and move ...
, Oxford, where he sits on the Board of Regents. Chong is Vice Chair of the
United World College of South-East Asia Foundation, and sits on the Board of
NUS High School of Math and Science. In appreciation for his dedicated service to education, the
Singapore Ministry of Education
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presented Chong with a Service to Education Award in 2013.
He also founded
Oyster Security Pte Ltd whose primary role is to safeguard the Portcullis group of companies against technology risks and threats.
References
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Singaporean businesspeople
Singaporean people of Chinese descent
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)