Chee Chin Wi

Chee Chin Wi is a Partner in the Corporate practice at Lee & Lee in Singapore. His practice focuses on Mergers and Acquisitions, representing clients on a wide spectrum of transactions.

Chin Wi handles mergers and acquisitions (including public takeovers and "take privates"), equity capital market deals and other corporate transactions.

Prior to joining Lee & Lee, he was Assistant General Counsel in a leading telecommunications operator in Singapore, Senior Legal Director at the Singapore-based international headquarters of a public-listed Chinese real estate developer, and a Partner at another leading law practice in Singapore.

His case highlights include advising Credit Suisse (Singapore) Limited as sole financial adviser to CapitaLand Commercial Trust Management Limited in the proposed merger of CapitaLand Mall Trust and CapitaLand Commercial Trust, with a total portfolio property value of approximately S$22.9 billion; advising Bank of America Merrill Lynch in relation to the trust scheme between ESR-Reit and Viva Industrial Trust, resulting in combined assets valued at approximately S$3.0 billion; and advising Credit Suisse (Singapore) Limited as sole financial adviser to Singapore Press Holdings Limited in relation to the voluntary general offer by Keppel Corporation Limited and Singapore Press Holdings Limited for the shares in M1 Limited, which valued the target at approximately S$1.9 billion.

He also advised joint financial advisers Citibank, Credit Suisse and OCBC in the proposed merger of OUE Commercial Real Estate Investment Trust and OUE Hospitality Real Estate Investment Trust by way of a trust scheme of arrangement, involving total assets of about $6.8 billion, and advised OUE Limited, Finnegan Investments Limited and Mackmoor Pte. Ltd. in the sale of shares related to the holding companies of five-star hotel Marina Mandarin Singapore, with a transaction value of approximately S$675 million.

Chin Wi graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2005. He is a member of the Law Society of Singapore and the Singapore Academy of Law, and serves on the board of Seu Teck Medical Institution Limited.