Lee May Ling

Lee May Ling is a Partner at Allen & Gledhill and Deputy Head of the Firm's White Collar & Investigations Practice, specialising in white collar crime, corporate investigations, and dispute resolution. She frequently acts for financial institutions, listed and multinational corporations, and high-profile individuals in litigation and cross-border arbitration proceedings concerning employment disputes, contractual disputes, company and shareholder disputes, family and estate disputes, civil fraud claims, and corporate governance matters.

May Ling regularly assists clients with navigating anti-fraud, sanctions, corruption, and money-laundering laws, conducting internal investigations into employee misconduct, fraud and harassment, and providing dawn raid training. She has represented corporate and individual clients in criminal and regulatory investigations and enforcement actions in bribery and corruption, securities fraud and disclosure regulations, anti-money laundering controls, and financial sanctions. She has acted for financial institutions in relation to money-laundering investigations concerning Singapore's S$3 billion money laundering case involving the "Fujian Gang", and in investigations concerning 1MDB and the Bernie Madoff investment scandal. She has also acted in corruption investigations concerning the Pertamina case and Operation Car Wash, and acted as defence counsel in the high-profile prosecution against several members of City Harvest Church.

May Ling holds an LL.B. (Hons) with First Class Honours and an LL.M. in Commercial Law from King's College London. She was called to the Singapore Bar in 2012.

She is an Accredited Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre and currently serves as Chairman on the Board of the SAS-SBF Foundation of Compassion Fund. She is recognised in Chambers Asia-Pacific for Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption, Lexology Index: Investigations, and The Legal 500 Asia Pacific for White-Collar Crime, where she is described as "hardworking, accessible and capable", "really sensible and pragmatic", and "consistently knowledgeable and responsive".