Ee Kuan is a partner in the Appellate Advocacy Practice Group in Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP. The main focuses of his practice are complex commercial litigation (including appellate advocacy), with an emphasis on banking and financial services disputes, as well as international commercial arbitration.
Before joining the firm, Ee Kuan was an Assistant Registrar / District Judge in the Supreme Court of Singapore and Special Assistant to Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon. Prior to that, he served as a Justices’ Law Clerk and as a Deputy Senior State Counsel / Deputy Public Prosecutor in the Advocacy Group of the Attorney-General’s Chambers, where he handled a range of civil, criminal and international law-related disputes.
Ee Kuan graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2012 with a BA in Law (Double First Class Honours), along with several university academic and mooting prizes. He obtained an LLM from Harvard Law School in 2013, where he received the Project on the Foundations of Private Law Prize for the best student paper on private law. He also won the Christopher Bathurst Prize 2018.
EXPERIENCE
Banking and Financial Services Disputes
- Advising and acting for a private bank in relation to internal investigations and a dispute arising out of misconduct by a relationship manager.
- Advising a payment service provider on representations to a regulator regarding an application for a licence.
Appellate Advocacy
- Acting in appeals to the Appellate Division arising from the termination of a business collaboration involving a leading food and beverage business in Singapore.
- Acting in an appeal to the Court of Appeal against a restraint order made under the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 2000 (Steep Rise Ltd v Attorney-General [2020] 1 SLR 872; [2020] SGCA 20).
Commercial Litigation
- Acting for an individual in defending claims for breach of fiduciary duty and misrepresentation.
- Acting for the receivers and managers of mortgaged property in an action against occupiers.
International Commercial Arbitration
- Acting for a member of a major conglomerate in the businesses of oil and energy as well as shipping in an SIAC arbitration concerning a contractual dispute arising from the imposition of OFAC sanctions.
- Acting in an SIAC arbitration in a contractual dispute between a Singapore statutory board and a US corporation.
