Senior Associate | Advocate & Solicitor - Vincent Lee

Vincent Lee

Senior Associate |
Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)

Vincent Lee main areas of practice include Corporate, Commercial & Civil Litigation, Criminal Law, Employment, Probate, Wills & Estate Matters.

Vincent’s practice spans a broad range of areas including mediation, civil and commercial disputes, criminal law, employment advisory and litigation, as well as wills and probate matters.

He began his legal career with PDLegal before expanding his experience at both a mid-sized and a Big Four law firm, and later returned to PDLegal, bringing with him a deepened perspective and versatility across practice areas.

Vincent holds a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) from Monash University, Australia. He graduated in the top 7% of his cohort and served as both Treasurer and Vice-President of the Singapore Association of Monash.

Vincent obtained a Distinction in Family Law practice at the 2021 sitting of Part B of the Singapore Bar exams and was called to the Singapore Bar in 2022.

Work Highlights

Represented and acted for a CLAS client charged with outrage of modesty in a criminal trial. See reported decision of PP v Chia Gim Boo [2023] SGMC 79.
Successfully arguing on appeal to a Judge in the General Division of the High Court of Singapore, for an order for security for costs to be furnished by the opposing party, the Claimant – See reported decision of Cova Group Holdings Ltd v Advanced Submarine Networks Pte Ltd and another [2023] SGHC 178.
Successfully represented clients, a Singapore biotechnology company and its representatives, in multiple parallel legal proceedings (see here) including:
- Overturning on appeal a decision of the High Court at first instance, granting the opposing party, the Defendants, unconditional leave to defend in an application for summary judgment filed by our client. On appeal, the Court ordered conditional leave to defend in the sum of S$1.5m security to be furnished by the Defendants.
- In parallel proceedings, successfully set aside a default judgment and obtained a stay of court proceedings in favour of arbitration. This was upheld on appeal.
- Amidst all of the above ongoing proceedings, obtained urgent injunctions as against one of the Defendants, a company, who had removed our client’s representatives and directors in breach of a shareholders’ agreement between parties.
Acted for a Chinese payment services company in arbitration, in respect of a contractual dispute against a US firm before the Singapore International Arbitration Centre.
Advising both multinational entities, SMEs and employees on navigating employment law issues, including enforceability of restraint of trade clauses, review of employment contracts and employment policies, employment investigations into misconduct by employees, and retrenchment of employees under Singapore law.