Ee Kuan is a partner in the Appellate Advocacy Practice Group in Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP. The main focuses of his practice are complex commercial litigation (including appellate advocacy) and international arbitration.

Before joining the firm, Ee Kuan was an Assistant Registrar / District Judge in the Supreme Court of Singapore and Special Assistant to Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon. Prior to that, he served as a Justices’ Law Clerk and as a Deputy Senior State Counsel / Deputy Public Prosecutor in the Advocacy Group of the Attorney-General’s Chambers, where he handled a range of civil, criminal and international law-related disputes.

Ee Kuan graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2012 with a BA in Law (Double First Class Honours), along with several university academic and mooting prizes. He obtained an LLM from Harvard Law School in 2013, where he received the Project on the Foundations of Private Law Prize for the best student paper on private law. He also won the Christopher Bathurst Prize 2018.

EXPERIENCE

  • Acting in an SIAC arbitration between a Singapore statutory board and a US corporation.
  • Acting as lead counsel in an appeal to the General Division of the High Court under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019 (The Online Citizen Pte Ltd v Attorney-General [2023] 3 SLR 761; [2022] SGHC 177).
  • Acting in an appeal to the Court of Appeal against a restraint order made under the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 2000 (Steep Rise Ltd v Attorney-General [2020] 1 SLR 872; [2020] SGCA 20).

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Qualifications

  • BA Law (Double First Class Honours), University of Cambridge
  • LLM, Harvard Law School
  • Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore

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