Qualifications

  • B.A. (Hons.) in Law and Economics, University of Keele, UK (1992)
  • Admitted to the Bar of England & Wales, Middle Temple (1993)
  • Admitted to the Singapore Bar as an Advocate and Solicitor (1994)
Feei Sy handles civil and commercial litigation with a focus on banking and financial litigation, corporate and personal insolvency and debt recovery. He has represented major local and foreign banks and financial institutions in all aspects of banking issues and disputes, including banking fraud, banker-customer obligations, banking secrecy and enforcement of banking securities. He has also acted for clients in a variety of arbitration and commercial disputes, including contract, property and shareholders’ disputes. 

Feei Sy has been in practice since 1994. He joined Drew & Napier in October 2002, and became a Director in 2008. He left Drew & Napier in 2018 and re-joined the firm in April 2023.
Some of the matters Feei Sy has handled include:
  1. Represented an Indonesian company against a Chinese multinational power generation manufacturing company in an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitration over a dispute in relation to a contract for the construction of a power plant, with damages claimed in excess of US$172 million.
  2. Defended various entities within a prominent group of trust companies in obtaining a limited stay of Singapore proceedings pending the determination of proceedings in Labuan.
     
  3. Acted for a group of strata title unit holders of a S$30.5 million development against a foreign company purchaser for failure to complete the deal.
     
  4. Represented a bank in a claim of over US$66 million against a Chinese businessman under a personal guarantee involving issues of fraudulent misrepresentation, promissory estoppel and breach of contract.
     
  5. Represented a bank in actions to recover over US$11 million advanced and secured by mortgages over properties, vessels and personal guarantees.
India Business Law Journal
In the India Business Law Journal, June 2016, a client described Feei Sy as an “able and diligent advocate.
  • Member, Law Society of Singapore
  • Member, Singapore Academy of Law