Kok Chee Wai
Co-Head of the Financial Services Department
Allen & Gledhill
Chee Wai is Co-Head of the Financial Services Department and separately, Co-Head of Allen & Gledhill’s regional Energy, Infrastructure & Projects Practice, and Co-Head of the Firm’s 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.
Chee Wai is noted for his Banking & Finance and Projects & Energy expertise in international legal directories such as Chmabers Global, Chambers Asia-Pacific, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific and IFLR1000. Chambers Asia-Pacific notes that Chee Wai “has forged a formidable reputation as one of the country’s leading banking practitioners”, and “is singled out for the experience he can bring to bear on complex transactions”. He has been praised by a source for his “responsiveness and can count on his experience to come up with sound advice consistently” and is acknowledged by interviewees as having “nothing but the utmost respect for him”. In IFLR1000, Chee Wai is recognised as a Market Leader and client feedback includes “we appreciate his responsiveness and we can always count on his experience to come up with sound advice consistently based on what we need to achieve”. The Legal 500 Asia Pacific describes Chee Wai as one of the “giants of the market”.
Chee Wai is a member of the Banking Law Committee of the International Bar Association.