Professional Bio:

Chiew Ee is a Partner at Rahmat Lim & Partners (in association with Allen & Gledhill LLP Singapore). Her areas of practice include corporate and commercial disputes, restructuring & insolvency, and ESG. Her disputes experience includes acting in corporate disputes, claims for breach of fiduciary and directors’ duties, fraud litigation and asset tracing proceedings, and in litigation matters with private international law aspects.

In the area of restructuring and insolvency, Chiew Ee has acted for creditors, debtors, financial institutions, and insolvency officeholders in a broad range of contentious and non-contentious matters. She has experience advising foreign clients on the implications of their restructuring processes—such as the US Chapter 11 process and the UK Part 26A restructuring plans—in Malaysia, including how their Malaysian entities may participate in or be affected by the wider foreign restructuring processes. Chiew Ee also has experience coordinating recognition of Malaysian restructuring and insolvency proceedings and orders in foreign jurisdictions. She is also the first Malaysian-qualified practitioner to be admitted as an INSOL Fellow. 

Chiew Ee has been recognised as a Recommended Lawyer in Dispute Resolution for The Legal 500 Asia Pacific where she was noted for being “very knowledgeable about the law, particularly on insolvency issues” and as being “detail-oriented and possesses an impressive commercial sense”. Client has also commended her as their “preferred go-to as counsel for Malaysian disputes.” In 2022, Chiew Ee was named in Asian Legal Business’ Asia 40 Under 40 list, which recognises the most accomplished lawyers in Asia under the age of 40.

Chiew Ee is a Fellow at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Panel Adjudicator at the Asian International Arbitration Centre. She co-authored the first and sole Malaysian practitioner text on commercial conflict of laws which has been cited with approval by the High Court of Malaya.