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In the closing hours of 3 July 2025, the Ministry of National Development, Ministry of Finance and Monetary Authority of Singapore announced that by midnight of the following day, a new seller’s stamp duty (“SSD”) regime would be put in place (“the media release”). This comes after 8 years of the previous regime, in which the SSD holding period was pegged at three years, with rates of between 4 per cent and 12 per cent.Under the new SSD regime, implemented […]

Our firm acted for MilikiRumah, an Indonesian social Proptech startup founded by senior executives of PropertyGuru, in its recent equity funding round raising up to SGD 2.6 million. MilikiRumah provides rent-to-own housing solutions, enabling individuals and families to achieve homeownership through a more accessible and flexible model for them to build their home equity and credit records. This round of funding, backed by Ruifeng Wealth Management, a Singapore-based family office and Jani Rautiainen, Co-Founder of PropertyGuru, among other investors, will […]

The firm is pleased to announce the appointment of the following individuals as Partners of the Firm with effect from 1 January 2025:

James Yap (Corporate Department)

Gayle Phua (Banking Department)

We take this opportunity to congratulate our Partners on their new appointments.

We are pleased to share that Lee & Lee has been awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award (Bronze) by the Legal Aid Bureau at their 66th Anniversary Dinner & Awards Ceremony on 24 October 2024.

This recognition highlights our firm’s commitment to ensuring that the less privileged in our community have access to justice.

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to the Legal Aid Bureau for their steadfast support and partnership.

We advised Dyna-Mac Holdings Ltd. in the takeover offer by Hanwha Ocean SG Holdings Pte. Ltd. through a voluntary conditional cash offer at a consideration of S$0.67 per share.  The target group is a multi-disciplinary specialist provider of detailed engineering, procurement and construction services to the offshore oil and gas, marine construction and other industries.  

For more information, please read: https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/companies-markets/hanwha-ups-dyna-mac-takeover-offer-final-price-s0-67-share; https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/dyna-macs-founder-accepts-south-korean-hanwhas-revised-buyout-offer-2024-11-05/

Partners, Chee Leong Lun and Liane Lim advised Dyna-Mac Holdings Ltd. on the transaction.

We are thrilled to announce that Lee & Lee has been recognised as the top law firm in Singapore for Inheritance & Succession, Private Wealth Management and Real Estate in The Straits Times and Statista’s Best Law Firms survey. 🎉Our firm was also named in the Best lists of 12 out of 18 fields of law surveyed for local law firms, showcasing our exceptional legal expertise across a wide range of practice areas: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/rajah-tann-a-g-and-drew-lead-the-best-100-but-small-firms-also-stand-outA special congratulations to our very own […]