Kok Yee Keong

Kok Yee Keong is a Partner at Harry Elias Partnership LLP, focusing on Commercial Litigation. A consummate disputes lawyer, he has acted in a variety of civil and commercial litigation matters at all levels of court, on matters such as ownership disputes, company disputes, contractual disputes, employment disputes, personal injury, torts and fraud.

He acts for various major commercial landlords, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and major managing agents, advising on landlords-and-tenants disputes, leasing terms, re-entry, and compliance with the FTIC’s Code of Conduct for Leasing of Retail Premises in Singapore. He also acts for numerous institutional clients to pursue asset recovery or insolvency actions for debts owed, and is familiar with navigating creditors through the restructuring or insolvency of debtors, such as winding-up, bankruptcy, moratorium, scheme of arrangement and judicial management.

Yee Keong has advised over 250 MCSTs, managing agents and subsidiary proprietors of various strata-titled developments — residential, commercial, retail, industrial or mixed-use — on estate issues including BMSMA compliance, building defects and contractor disputes.

He has been a Legal Skills Instructor at the National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law, since 2016, teaching the year-long module Legal Analysis, Research and Communication, and has authored numerous practical guides for the public on navigating the law.

His recognitions include ALB Rising Stars Singapore 2025, being named among Singapore’s 18 most influential lawyers under 40 by Singapore Business Review in 2021, and Best Feature Article by a Young Lawyer 2021 from the Law Gazette, Law Society of Singapore. He is an Accredited Mediator of the Singapore Mediation Centre, a member of the Inquiry Panel of the Law Society of Singapore (2026–2028), and holds an LLB (2nd Upper Honours) from the National University of Singapore.