Lee is a senior associate in our Singapore office. He focuses on dispute resolution on major infrastructure and resources projects, with a particular focus on complex delay claims and delay analysis. His experience includes advising government and industry clients, as well as acting for owners, contractors, subcontractors and lenders to projects. Lee regularly advises on numerous dispute resolution mechanisms, including ICC and SIAC arbitrations, expert determinations, mediations, adjudications, and court proceedings.
Lee is experienced in advising clients in relation to projects based in East Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas and Africa in the power generation, oil and gas, petrochemical, civil engineering and transport industries.
Clients have praised Lee for his “sound strategic judgement” and “technical ability, dedication and collegiality”, as well as having “a very good read on how Tribunals would react to arguments” and having “litigation in his blood”.
Lee has also spent time in-house on secondments to a large EPC contractor in Tokyo and an oil and gas major in the UK. On secondment, he advised on contract drafting and interpretation, pre-dispute claims management and negotiations, and all stages of dispute resolution.
Bar and court admissions
Languages
English
Acting for a consortium of EPC contractors in a SIAC arbitration and associated court proceedings regarding an oil refinery in South East Asia
Acting for a consortium of EPC contractors in an ICC arbitration regarding a civil engineering megaproject in Central America
Acting on an ICC arbitration for a leading EPC contractor in relation to the world’s largest petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia
Acting for an EPC contractor in multiple ICC arbitrations with subcontractors arising out of a major infrastructure project in preparation for the 2022 FIFA World Cup
Acting for an owner in an ICC arbitration in relation to a peat-fired power plant in Africa
Acting for an EPC contractor in a dispute regarding defects and late issuance of a final acceptance certificate on an onshore wind farm in the Middle East
Advising an EPC contractor in relation to separate ICC and SIAC arbitrations arising out of a coal-fired power plant in South East Asia
Acting for a leading EPC contractor in expert determination proceedings arising from increased costs and variations in relation to a process plant in the Middle East
Acting for an oil major (both in-house and in private practice) in the UK Commercial Court and Court of Appeal in a dispute arising under a gas sales agreement
- LLB (Hons), London School of Economics and Political Sciences