Soo Chye Lee (Corporate, Real Estate)

Soo Chye serves both corporate (small medium enterprises, listed companies and financial institutions) and individual clients. He has acted for landowners, investors, and financial institutions in a whole range of real estate transactions including acquisitions (including through collective sales, and government tender) and divestments of land/buildings/units in buildings for development or redevelopment, leasing of buildings by master landlords, subdivision of tenure of land, collective sale by owners. He actively establishes working relationships with counterparts in the ASEAN, Australia, Greater China, South India, Europe and the United States. He constantly seeks to keep himself abreast of key trends and developments in business as these developments can provide numerous opportunities for the legal profession and clients. Soo Chye is passionate about working with clients as they harness the opportunities to re-invent and refresh their businesses and expand into new markets. He advises clients on the issues that may arise in the area of data security and works with various partners to deliver a holistic solution for clients as they harness technology to expand their markets beyond physical territorial boundaries. He works with clients on succession planning not just for the family wealth but also for businesses. These clients often face cross-jurisdictional and complex issues involving shifts in paradigms for the business and asset owners. Soo Chye assists them in the steps and structures necessary to be put in place to achieve the vision. Soo Chye also serves various non-profit and welfare organisations, both as a board member and legal advisor. He is proficient in Mandarin, Teochew and other Chinese dialects.