Adrian Chan, PBM

Adrian Chan, PBM is a Senior Partner and Head of Corporate at Lee & Lee in Singapore. He joined the firm in 1989 and his practice focuses on Mergers and Acquisitions.

His expertise includes mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, regulatory advisory, corporate and commercial work, SGX listing advisory and capital markets.

He serves on the Legal Service Commission, constituted under the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore, as the nominee of the Prime Minister. He is currently the Vice-Chairman of the Singapore Institute of Directors and has served over two terms on the board of the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singapore (ACRA). He has also served on the Council of the Law Society of Singapore and the Corporate Governance Regulations Interest Group of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce.

He has served as an independent director on the boards of various companies listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange for over 20 years. The SGX has appointed him to its Catalist Advisory Panel to review Catalist Sponsor and Registered Professional applications.

For the Singapore Institute of Legal Education, he continues to lecture on Corporate Governance, is an Examiner for the Corporate and Commercial Practice paper for the Bar Admissions and Examinations for Singapore lawyers, and is the Principal Examiner for Company Law for the Foreign Practitioner Examinations. He regularly teaches Corporate Governance and Director Duties & Responsibilities for the Singapore Management University-SID Executive Certificate in Directorship and has been awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award by SMU for his work in this area.

He has been appointed to the Corporate Governance and Directors' Duties Working Group of the Steering Committee established by the Ministry of Finance to review and rewrite the Companies Act of Singapore. He has co-authored Singapore's first Annotated Code of Corporate Governance for Lexis-Nexis, published in Woon's Corporations Law, and was appointed to the Audit Committee Guidance Committee established by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, ACRA and the SGX.

His case highlights include acting for Sherman Kwek, CEO of City Developments Limited, and 6 independent directors in their boardroom disputes and lawsuit with the Chairman, Kwek Leng Beng, and 3 other directors; acting in various delisting and privatisation exercises from the Singapore Stock Exchange, including the privatisation of Isetan (Singapore) Ltd by Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd. through a scheme of arrangement and the voluntary conditional takeover offer for Dyna-Mac Holdings Ltd. by Hanwha Ocean SG Holdings Pte. Ltd.; and acting for CLA Global TS in its partnership with and investments by Dymon Asia Private Equity.

He holds an LLB from the National University of Singapore (1989) and was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1990. He is ranked as a Leading Individual for Corporate/M&A in Singapore by Chambers Global and Chambers Asia Pacific, recommended as a Leading Lawyer (Highly Regarded) in the IFLR1000, profiled by Asialaw as a "market-leading lawyer" and "elite practitioner", described by The Asia Pacific Legal 500 as "a terrific corporate lawyer with an impressive track record in the market", and described by Who's Who Legal as "a first-class corporate lawyer". He was awarded the Public Service Medal (Pingat Bakti Masyarakat) in 2022.