Lun Chee Leong

Lun Chee Leong is a Senior Partner and Deputy Head of the Corporate Department at Lee & Lee in Singapore, and is also a Commissioner for Oaths and a Notary Public. With more than 28 years' experience in corporate practice, his practice focuses on Capital Markets Law.

Chee Leong has a broad range of experience in corporate finance and capital markets, takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, real estate investment trust and business trusts, and regulatory and trust services advisory work.

He graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LLB (Second Upper Honours) degree in 1995 and was placed on the Dean's List. He was also awarded the Law Society Book Prize in 1992/93. He joined Lee & Lee as an associate in 1996 and was made a partner in January 2002. He is fluent in English and Mandarin (oral and written).

His case highlights include acting for the joint global coordinators and joint bookrunners in the listing of CDL Hospitality REIT and OUE Commercial REIT; acting for Singapore Press Holdings in the sale of The Clementi Mall to SPH REIT for S$570 million; acting for SPH REIT in obtaining a secured term loan facility of S$975.0 million; acting for OUE H-REIT in obtaining a S$630.0 million financing package; acting for Indiabulls Properties Investment Trust in takeover offers in 2016 and 2017; acting for subsidiaries of CapitaLand Limited in the divestment to Ascott Residence Trust of shareholding interests and a property sale totalling 28 serviced residence properties for an aggregate sale consideration of S$969.6 million; acting for the trustee of K-REIT Asia in the acquisition of Ocean Financial Centre at a value of more than S$2 billion; and acting for the trustee of Cambridge Industrial Trust (now known as ESR REIT) in numerous projects, including the establishment of a S$500,000,000 Multicurrency Medium Term Note Programme.

He also acted for M1 Ltd in the S$1.9 billion takeover offer by its controlling shareholders; for Biosensors International Group, Ltd. in the first privatisation exercise by the Citic group for S$1.1 billion, the first in Singapore of a main board listed company executed by way of amalgamation; for the Eu family in its participation with Japan's Mitsui & Co and Rohto Pharmaceutical in their acquisition of Eu Yan Sang International Ltd in a transaction valued at S$800 million; for Wheelock Properties (Singapore) Limited in respect of the takeover offer for Hotel Properties Limited which valued Hotel Properties at S$2.1 billion; for Isetan Singapore Limited in its privatisation by Japan's Isetan Mitsukoshi by way of scheme of arrangement; and for Dyna-Mac Holdings Ltd in the conditional voluntary takeover offer by Hanwha Ocean SG Holdings Pte. Ltd. at approximately S$790.6 million.

Chee Leong writes extensively and has contributed to legal publications including Halsbury's Laws of Singapore (Hire-Purchase; Commercial Law, Sale and Supply of Goods and Services) and Woon's Corporations Law (Chapters A, B, C, D, E, J, K, T and U). He currently serves as Lead Independent Director of Trek2000 International Ltd, a Director of Sabana Investment Partners Pte. Ltd., and Company Secretary of several SGX-listed companies including Isetan (Singapore) Limited, Prime US REIT, Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd and Old Chang Kee Ltd. He is also a member of the Audit Committee of Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery.