Jacqueline Chua

Jacqueline Chua is a Partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department at Lee & Lee in Singapore. Her practice focuses on Commercial Litigation, with over 12 years' experience.

She is effectively bilingual in both spoken and written Mandarin and English. She regularly appears as counsel in cases before the Singapore courts and has diverse practice areas, including arbitration, employment, immigration fraud, landlord and tenant, software services, and wills, probate and estate administration. Jacqueline believes in working out practical and cost-effective solutions in the best interest of the client.

Her case highlights include acting in Singapore's first "99-1" case against a property agent and lawyers for misrepresentation and negligence; acting for a Chinese cold chain logistics conglomerate in a S$10 million dispute over the sale and purchase of logistics entities; acting for an Indonesian tech logistics company in an SIAC Arbitration relating to a software services dispute; acting for a local businessman and successfully defending claims of fraudulent breach of duty and conspiracy to defraud in a series of High Court lawsuits; acting for multiple Chinese individuals in a $25 million immigration fraud case in the High Court for recovery of immigration funds which were siphoned off to China, successfully securing an order for committal sentencing the defendant to imprisonment for dissipation and breach of a Mareva Injunction Order; acting for an Indonesian businessman in relation to an investment fraud and fraudulent transfer of Singapore property; and acting for a Canadian technology company against a Chinese state-owned enterprise in SIAC arbitration proceedings for breaches of contract and misrepresentations causing damages in the region of US$1 billion, successfully obtaining an emergency injunction to restrain the party from further acting against the client's detriment.

She graduated with an LLB (Cum Laude) from Singapore Management University (2011) and was called to the Singapore Bar in August 2012. She is a member of the Singapore Academy of Law and the Law Society of Singapore.