Xyn Yee handles complex litigation and arbitration matters. She has represented and advised clients in a diverse range of matters, including shareholders’ disputes, joint ventures, corporate and cross-border disputes, civil disputes involving commercial contracts, tortious, equitable and trust claims, and freezing injunctions, employment disputes, probate matters, and commercial criminal matters. Xyn Yee also has experience in cases involving energy projects, banking and finance, collective sale, defamation, administrative and public law, disciplinary proceedings, family law, and criminal law.
Prior to joining Drew & Napier in 2020, Xyn Yee was a Deputy Public Prosecutor in the Attorney-General’s Chambers (Financial and Technology Crime Division) in 2017. She served as a Justices’ Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Singapore from 2018 to 2019. She is also emplaced on the Supreme Court’s Young Independent Counsel Scheme 2024.
Xyn Yee graduated with First Class Honours from the National University of Singapore, where she was also awarded the Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize, the Tan Keng Feng Prize for Best Directed Research, and the Tort Law Prize.
Some of the matters in which Xyn Yee has acted include:
- US$1.4 billion multi-jurisdictional mining dispute: Successfully acted for a Papua New Guinea company in a Singapore suit in striking out claims for breach of fiduciary duties and conspiracy allegedly brought by 147,000 persons in PNG in respect of the operation of a mine, and in applying for the proceedings to be discontinued as a representative action.
- Shareholders’ dispute: Acted for a Singapore-listed company in a multimillion-dollar international arbitration concerning a fast-paced shareholders’ dispute with its foreign joint venture partner, which also involved multiple applications for emergency interim relief and related court proceedings in Singapore and the foreign country.
- Corporate and cross-border dispute: Successfully acted for companies incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and the People’s Republic of China in a Singapore suit concerning a cross-border dispute with a director for breach of his duty of diligence, with related concurrent proceedings in the BVI.
- Employment claim: Acted for a multinational company in the electronic components industry in a Singapore suit concerning a dispute with its former employees, involving claims of breach of employment contract, breach of confidence, and inducing breach of contract.
- Commercial crime: Acting for the director of a Singapore company in defending against charges of abetment of corruption in relation to a government employee.