Chua Xyn Yee

Chua Xyn Yee is a Director in the Dispute Resolution practice group at Drew & Napier, handling complex litigation and arbitration matters. Her practice encompasses shareholders' disputes, joint ventures, corporate and cross-border disputes, civil disputes involving commercial contracts, tortious, equitable and trust claims, freezing injunctions, employment disputes, probate matters, and commercial criminal matters.

She has acted in a wide range of high-stakes matters, including successfully acting for a Papua New Guinea company in a Singapore suit in striking out claims for breach of fiduciary duties and conspiracy allegedly brought by 147,000 persons in respect of the operation of a mine; acting for a Singapore-listed company in a multimillion-dollar international arbitration concerning a shareholders' dispute with its foreign joint venture partner; and acting for companies incorporated in the BVI and PRC in a cross-border dispute concerning a director's breach of duty of diligence.

Prior to joining Drew & Napier in 2020, Xyn Yee served as a Deputy Public Prosecutor in the Attorney-General's Chambers (Financial and Technology Crime Division) in 2017, and as a Justices' Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Singapore from 2018 to 2019. She holds an LL.B (Hons) with First Class Honours from the National University of Singapore (2017), where she received the Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize, the Tan Keng Feng Prize for Best Directed Research, and the Tort Law Prize. She was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 2020.

She is emplaced on the Supreme Court's Young Independent Counsel Scheme 2024.