Liew Kai Zee

Liew Kai Zee is a Senior Partner at Shook Lin & Bok LLP, specialising in banking and finance law, structured finance, and debt restructuring. He has over 30 years of experience advising financial institutions and major corporates on a broad range of domestic and international financing, securitisation, and debt restructuring transactions.

Kai Zee has extensive experience in syndicated lending, structured finance, leveraged buy-outs and acquisition finance, structured commodity and trade finance, Islamic finance, ESG finance, project finance, property development finance, vessel finance, REIT financing, cross-border finance, debt programmes, and rated and unrated commercial mortgage-backed securities. He also advises financial institutions on regulatory and compliance matters and has represented bank and non-bank creditors, companies, regulators, and insolvency practitioners in consensual and non-consensual debt restructurings and insolvency matters in Singapore and the region.

Kai Zee holds an LL.B (Hons) from the National University of Singapore (1995) and was called to the Singapore Bar in 1997.

He is consistently recognised as a leading lawyer in Banking and Finance by Chambers Global, Chambers Asia-Pacific, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (Hall of Fame), IFLR1000, and Asialaw Profiles (Elite Practitioner), and has been listed in Asia Business Law Journal's The A-List: Singapore's Top 100 Lawyers.