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About
Provided by Chee Wai Kok
Practice Areas
Banking & Finance; Energy, Infrastructure & Projects
Career
Chee Wai is Co-Head of the Firm’s Financial Services Department and separately, Co-Head of the regional Energy, Infrastructure & Projects Practice, and Co-Head of the Banking & Finance Practice.
Chee Wai has broad and deep experience in domestic and international financing. His general banking and finance practice includes acting for lenders and major corporates on domestic and cross-border syndicated loans, structured and acquisition financing and debt restructuring.
He also regularly acts for banks and sponsors on limited recourse project financing in various sectors and has acted in many of the public-private-partnership (PPP) and other infrastructure projects in Singapore and in the region.
Professional Memberships
Member, Banking Law Committee of the International Bar Association.
Publications
The Singapore Chapter of Chambers Global Practice Guide to Acquisition Finance, Chambers and Partners.
The Singapore Chapter of The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Project Finance, Global Legal Group.
The Singapore Chapter of Lending & Taking Security Global Guide, Practical Law.
Chambers Review
Global
Kok Chee Wai maintains a powerful reputation in the market, with strong expertise in project and real estate finance. He regularly acts as lenders' counsel for major regional banks.
Kok Chee Wai assists clients with the financing of major utilities and conventional and renewable energy projects. His clientele includes both state-owned and private companies engaged in projects-related work.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Chee Wai is well known in the space."
"Chee Wai is my go-to guy for more complex, higher-scale financings. He is a veteran in the industry and somebody who is very pragmatic."
"Chee Wai is very good at being able to understand client needs. His ability to understand how the banker's mind works and capture that in legal contractual documentation is very critical. He is strong in his ability to put thoughts into words and contractually bind it."
"Chee Wai is well known in the space."
"Chee Wai is my go-to guy for more complex, higher-scale financings. He is a veteran in the industry and somebody who is very pragmatic."
"Chee Wai is very good at being able to understand client needs. His ability to understand how the banker's mind works and capture that in legal contractual documentation is very critical. He is strong in his ability to put thoughts into words and contractually bind it."