April Cheah

April Cheah is a Partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department at Lee & Lee in Singapore. Her practice focuses on Dispute Resolution, covering civil and commercial litigation, medical litigation and employment disputes.

She graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2012, where she was the recipient of the Roger Fisher Prize in Negotiation in 2011 and was awarded the best oralist in the Asia Pacific rounds of the 2012 Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition. She joined Lee & Lee as a Trainee in 2014 after a year in church ministry, and was called to the Singapore Bar in the same year.

Her civil and commercial litigation experience includes acting for Chinese entities in a US$107 million High Court claim against an online payment company in 2024; acting for the buyers of a conservation shophouse against the seller for breach of contract; acting for a creditor in successfully resisting a judicial management application by an insolvent online grocery and food delivery service company and obtaining a winding-up order against the company; acting for a country club in a $37 million High Court suit against multiple defendants in respect of possible fraud; and acting for a property developer in a successful appeal to the Court of Appeal against an institutional trustee to include extrinsic evidence of prior negotiations to interpret a written contract with monetary ramifications in the region of S$40 million (Lucky Realty Co Pte Ltd v HSBC Trustee (Singapore) Ltd [2015] SGCA 68).

She regularly acts for medical practitioners in professional liability claims, complaints to the Singapore Medical Council, and Coroner's Inquiries, including acting for a specialist psychiatrist in a medical negligence suit commenced by the patient's parents claiming damages over the death of their son. In criminal litigation, she acted for a former general manager charged with conspiring with others to cheat his employer and its customer in excess of $1.5 million (Public Prosecutor v Ang Beng Ho [2015] SGDC 112), and for an individual charged with export of controlled drugs, successfully having the charges reduced to possession and consumption.

She holds an LLB from the National University of Singapore (2013) and is a member of the Law Society of Singapore and the Singapore Academy of Law.