Kai Zee Liew

Liew Kai Zee is the Managing Partner of the Firm and heads the Banking & Finance Practice. He has over 25 years of experience advising financial institutions and major corporates on a broad range of domestic and international financing, securitisation and debt restructuring and maintains his position as the only ranked lawyer in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific Hall of Fame for Banking & Finance. He has extensive experience in advising on syndicated lending, structured finance, leveraged buy-outs and acquisition finance, structured commodity and trade finance, Islamic finance, ESG finance, project finance, property development finance, vessel finance, REIT financing, cross-border finance, sale of debts, debt programmes, rated and unrated commercial mortgage backed securities and securitization programmes.

Kai Zee also advises financial institutions on regulatory and compliance matters. In addition, he has represented bank and non-bank creditors, companies, regulators and insolvency practitioners in various consensual and non-consensual debt restructurings and insolvency matters in Singapore and the region. With the knowledge and experience which he has accumulated over the past two decades in his area of practice, Kai Zee is also the legal trainer for a number of banks in Singapore and the region.

LLB (Hons), National University of Singapore (1995); Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore (1997).