Chau Yee is Head of the Insolvency and Asset Recovery Practice Group and is also a Partner in the Firm’s Construction, Engineering and Infrastructure Projects Practice Group. His main areas of practice are commercial and contractual cases with particular emphasis in construction disputes, general civil litigation, and employment law.

He has advised major developers in construction disputes as well as court applications ancillary to and in connection with property development projects, and was lead counsel in several High Court and Court of Appeal cases. Chau Yee is also part of the team advising on Las Vegas Sands Corp’s Singapore subsidiary, Marina Bay Sands Pte Ltd for the Marina Bay Integrated Resort, the first integrated resort in Singapore, and on Singapore Flyer Pte Ltd, the first and largest giant observation wheel in Singapore. He has also advised on shipping related arbitration, ship arrests, cargo claims and other shipping related matters with particular emphasis for foreign litigants in arbitrations and suits in Singapore.

In respect of employment law, besides advising employers and employees in multi-national corporations in Singapore, he has successfully claimed for a police officer in one of the rare actions heard in Singapore on an unfair dismissal case, which was heard and reported in the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

He is one of the contributors to the book, “Singapore Precedents of Pleadings” (2006) and from time to time, a speaker for seminars organized by The Law Society of Singapore and a contributor to legal articles in newspapers and magazines.

Chau Yee was called to the Singapore Bar in 1992.