Michael Lim

Michael Lim is a Partner in the Real Estate & Property Department at Lee & Lee in Singapore. His practice focuses on Real Estate Law, specialising in collective sales, landlord and tenant matters, and real estate.

Michael graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LLB (Hons) degree in 2007 and joined Lee & Lee in 2008 upon his admission as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore. In 2013, he obtained a postgraduate LLM degree (with Distinction) from University College London.

During his time at Lee & Lee, Michael has gained experience in a wide range of conveyancing work, including the sale, purchase and leasing of residential, commercial and industrial properties, corporate financing, corporate real estate work, preparation of wills and lasting powers of attorney, and redevelopment projects.

He currently specialises in leases, tenancies and licences involving various types of properties, having acted for a wide variety of landlords and tenants, such as clan associations, hospitals, logistics service providers, property developers, major retailers, restaurant owners, shipbuilders, statutory boards and SMEs.

He is also experienced in collective or "en bloc" sales, having acted and assisted in the sale and purchase of various residential, commercial and industrial developments such as Dunearn Gardens, Gillman Heights Condominium, Irving Industrial Building, Pearlbank Apartments, Serene House, Tat Hong Industrial Building and Tulip Garden.

His case highlights include acting in the purchase of an office building in the Central Business District by a private equity fund for S$200 million; acting in the sale of a commercial building in the Central Business District by a property holding company, which fetched S$79.3 million; assisting in the acquisition of all of the units in an industrial property REIT by a joint venture involving a major international private equity fund; acting for a statutory board in a long-term lease of several plots of agricultural land to a major overseas food producer; acting in the redevelopment of a commercial building in the Central Business District involving 2 public listed companies; and acting in the collective sale of Pearlbank Apartments (S$728m) and Tulip Garden (S$907m).

He is a member of the Law Society of Singapore and the Singapore Academy of Law.