Chua Xyn Yee
Associate Director, Dispute Resolution
- Singapore
- Drew & Napier LLC
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Qualifications
- LL.B (Hons) National University of Singapore (2017)
- Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore (2020)
Xyn Yee handles complex litigation and arbitration matters. She has represented and advised clients in a diverse range of matters, including shareholders’ disputes, joint ventures, corporate and cross-border disputes, civil disputes involving commercial contracts, tortious, equitable and trust claims, and freezing injunctions, employment disputes, probate matters, and commercial criminal matters. Xyn Yee also has experience in cases involving energy projects, banking and finance, collective sale, defamation, administrative and public law, disciplinary proceedings, family law, and criminal law.
Prior to joining Drew & Napier in 2020, Xyn Yee was a Deputy Public Prosecutor in the Attorney-General’s Chambers (Financial and Technology Crime Division) in 2017. She served as a Justices’ Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Singapore from 2018 to 2019. She is also emplaced on the Supreme Court’s Young Independent Counsel Scheme 2024.
Xyn Yee graduated with First Class Honours from the National University of Singapore, where she was also awarded the Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize, the Tan Keng Feng Prize for Best Directed Research, and the Tort Law Prize.
- Successfully acted for a Papua New Guinea company in a Singapore suit in striking out claims for breach of fiduciary duties and conspiracy allegedly brought by 147,000 persons in PNG in respect of the operation of a mine, and in applying for the proceedings to be discontinued as a representative action.
- Acted for a Singapore-listed company in a multimillion-dollar international arbitration concerning a fast-paced shareholders’ dispute with its foreign joint venture partner, which also involved multiple applications for emergency interim relief and related court proceedings in Singapore and the foreign country.
- Acting for a shareholder of a multinational conglomerate in a Singapore suit involving claims for minority shareholder oppression and breach of the shareholders’ agreement.
- Successfully acted for companies incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and the People’s Republic of China in a Singapore suit concerning a cross-border dispute with a director for breach of his duty of diligence, with related concurrent proceedings in the BVI.
- Acting for the director of a Singapore company in defending against charges of abetment of corruption in relation to a government employee.
- Member, Singapore Academy of Law
- Member, Law Society of Singapore