About Pengee Adrian CHAN

Adrian is Head of the Corporate Department and a Senior Partner at Lee & Lee.  He joined Lee & Lee in 1989 and has been a partner there since 1995.  He actively practises in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, venture capital work, corporate and commercial law, capital markets, domestic and international joint ventures, corporate restructuring, securities law, corporate governance and stock exchange practice and employment law.

He is recommended as a Leading Individual for Corporate/M&A in Singapore by Chambers Global in The Client’s Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, which describes him as a “heavyweight [who is] a great favourite with his many corporate clients” and who is “a serious lawyer doing an excellent job”.  Chambers Asia in its Guide to Asia’s Leading Lawyers for Business recommends him as “excellent and experienced”.  He has also been described by The Asia Pacific Legal 500 in its Guide to Asia’s Commercial Law Firms as “a terrific corporate lawyer with an impressive track record in the market” and has been recommended in the same publication as a Leading Individual in the field of Capital Markets.  In addition, Who’s Who Legal 2008 has described him as “a first-class corporate lawyer” who is “serious and respected”.  He has separately been named by the World Legal Forum in its Guide to Law Firms Around the Globe as part of the “impressive next generation” of top corporate lawyers in Singapore.

He has served for more than ten years on the Corporate Practice Committee of the Law Society of Singapore.  He is also a director of Lovells Lee & Lee, the joint law venture between Lee & Lee and the international law firm, Lovells.  He is the Non-Executive Chairman of AEM Holdings Ltd and is an independent director on the Boards of United Pulp & Paper Company Limited, Isetan (Singapore) Limited, Oniontech Limited, Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd and Global Investments Limited, all of which are listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX).

He serves on the Governing Council of the Singapore Institute of Directors and sits on the Listed Companies Committee of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce.  He has been appointed to the Audit Committee Guidance Committee, established by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority and the Singapore Exchange as a panel that has been set up to develop practical guidance for audit committees of SGX-listed companies and raise corporate governance standards. 

He has also been appointed to the Corporate Governance and Directors’ Duties Working Group of the Steering Committee that has been established by the Ministry of Finance to review and rewrite the Companies Act of Singapore.  In addition, he has served on the Lemon Law Taskforce set up by the Ministry of Trade & Industry and CASE to determine if there is a need for lemon laws in Singapore and to make recommendations to the government on the scope and form they should take. He has also served on the Taxpayers Feedback Panel of the Inland Revenue of Singapore.

He has co-authored Singapore’s first “Annotated Code of Corporate Governance” for Lexis-Nexis that is published in Woon’s Corporations Law.  He has also been elected to and serves on the Executive Council of the Association of Small and Medium Enterprises as its Honorary Secretary.  In addition, he has been appointed the Honorary Legal Advisor to the Singapore Institute of Engineering Technologists. 

He has spoken at the King's College London/NUS Masters degree course, the Post-Graduate Diploma Programme at the Ong Teng Cheong Institute of Labour Studies and regularly conducts the Singapore Management University-SID Executive Certificate in Directorship.  He has also spoken at the NUS-run Singapore-Commonwealth Seminar for Chief Executives and the Nanyang Technological University MBA course.  He has participated in formal legal study missions with the Law Society of Singapore to Myanmar and the People’s Republic of China.

Telephone

65574 814

E-Mail-Address

adrianchan@leenlee.com.sg