Sofia Marchetti

Sofia Marchetti is the partner who leads the firm’s investigations practice from Singapore. She directs fraud, asset-recovery and sanctions investigations across Asia for financial institutions, liquidators and multinational companies, and has worked on more than fifty cross-border matters, several of which involved proceedings in Singapore, Hong Kong and offshore jurisdictions at the same time.

Her work covers trade finance, commodities, shipping and family-owned conglomerates. She is known for tracing funds through offshore structures and nominee arrangements, and for coordinating teams across several countries under tight court timetables. Liquidators and banks rely on her reports to support freezing orders, disclosure applications and claims against former directors.

Before joining Pemberton & Co. she was head of investigations at a regional bank, responsible for internal fraud and sanctions cases across the Asia-Pacific network, after beginning her career in audit in Milan and London. She holds a master’s degree in forensic accounting from the University of Portsmouth and a degree in economics from Università Bocconi.

She is ranked in Band 1 for forensic accountants in the Asia-Pacific region by the leading directories and is a chartered accountant with the ICAEW. She speaks on asset recovery and trade-finance fraud at insolvency and banking conferences in Singapore and Hong Kong, and sits on the committee of a regional fraud examiners’ chapter.