Aaron Lee
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025
Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption: Domestic + 1 more ranking
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+65 9625 8586Share profile
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Band 3
About
Provided by Aaron Lee
Practice Areas
Banking & Finance; Corporate Regulatory & Compliance; Cybersecurity & Data Protection; Employment, Health & Safety; Financial Regulatory & Compliance; International Arbitration; Litigation; White Collar & Investigations
Career
Aaron is a commercial litigator with a particular expertise on employment, white-collar, regulatory and compliance and corporate governance matters.
Aaron is Co-Head of the Firm’s White Collar & Investigations Practice, and has an active practice in matters involving fraud, insider trading, money-laundering, corruption, securities, market misconduct, sanctions, import/export and mutual legal assistance matters. He also regularly advises on corporate investigations and inquiries relating to employee misconduct, fraud and corporate governance-related issues.
He also regularly acts in major corporate and commercial disputes for private and public listed companies as well as major financial institutions.
For employment-related matters, Aaron often advises on and acts in contentious employment cases and investigations by the authorities involving misconduct and fraud. Being a criminal and civil litigator, Aaron has handled a wide range of contentious employment matters. These include advising on internal disciplinary proceedings and actions, defending unfair dismissal claims, pursuing criminal recourse against errant employees and commencing legal proceedings to obtain injunctive remedies or compensation against former employees. Aaron also regularly advises on internal policies and procedures to detect, mitigate and address employee misconduct.
Education
Graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LL.B. (Hons) degree in 2001 with a number of academic awards.
Languages Spoken
English
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Aaron Lee is well-experienced in advising on corporate governance and compliance matters in addition to white-collar crime and anti-corruption mandates. He represents international and Singapore-based clientele.
Aaron Lee enjoys a strong reputation for work on investigations and white-collar crime mandates. He attracts market recognition for his expertise in contentious matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Aaron Lee is professional, prompt and very commercially aware."
"He is really down-to-earth and extremely competent."
"He is one of my top go-to legal counsel on complex and sophisticated issues as he is adept in the use of technology, data and AI."
"Aaron Lee is professional, prompt and very commercially aware."
"He is really down-to-earth and extremely competent."
"He is one of my top go-to legal counsel on complex and sophisticated issues as he is adept in the use of technology, data and AI."