Founded in 2016, the firm has assembled a unique team of the brightest and most exuberant legal consultants, many hailing from Big Four firms in Singapore. As a medium-sized firm with considerable experience, the firm is both adept in our craft, staying abreast with the latest developments in various sectors, and innovative in our practice, utilising cutting-edge technology to optimise our business processes. Since its establishment, Covenant Chambers LLC has leveraged on digital automation to provide a unique combination of technology-driven legal advisory and strategic solutions for clients across a broad range of sectors.
Our firm has been recognised in The Legal 500 and AsiaLaw.
We manage your disputes.
Whether it is advocacy at the Court of Appeal, complex trials at the High Court and State Courts, international commercial arbitration or regulatory agency investigations, our dispute lawyers have the experience and expertise to serve your interests.
Our experience and practices cover a full spectrum from multi-million dollar claims to competition law, shareholder/director fights to criminal and family law.
We take pride in working intelligently, efficiently and economically, and thereby giving you peace of mind as you leave your disputes in our hands.
We advise on many multi-disciplinary aspects of technology and media, Fintech, virtual assets and financial regulations, including financial regulations, compliance, intellectual property, capital markets, corporate mergers and acquisitions, employment, capital raising, founders and shareholders agreements. Areas include:
We regularly develop strategies for the use, protection, management and exploitation of intellectual property both locally and regionally. We also negotiate, review and draft commercial agreements involving research and development, application, acquisition, licensing and franchising. We have also worked with artistes and major local and regional content (including new media) producers in the protection and exploitation of their intellectual property rights.
Our expertise on employment law covers standard policy documents for employers including employment contracts, consultancy agreements, terms of employment and employee handbooks.
We also advise on employee incentives and benefits, employee share option schemes, immigration, severance and retrenchment, termination, collective bargaining and industrial relations, and outsourcing.
We advise liquidators, companies, creditors, and debtors in all aspects of insolvency and restructuring, including solvent reorganisation, debt restructuring, judicial management, schemes of arrangements, rescue financing, voluntary or involuntary winding up or liquidation proceedings, and prosecuting or defending claims by companies in liquidation.
Disputes between spouses can be emotionally draining. Being attentive and highly responsive, we are well placed to provide prompt, workable and high quality advice to meet the needs of our individual clients. We also see ourselves as a peacemaker in every family dispute.
We are competent in every area of family law, including annulment, judicial separation, divorce, adoption, maintenance and personal protection applications, mental capacity act applications, cross border issues such as division of foreign property and child custody issues.
Covenant Chambers LLC’s corporate and commercial practice group focuses on providing practical legal solutions to everyday business needs. We have extensive cross-jurisdictional corporate experience, which includes mergers and acquisitions, take-overs, venture capital, initial public offerings, capital and debt markets work, banking and regulatory compliance, private equity investments, corporate restructuring and general corporate work. Industry sectors include finance, shipping, healthcare, telecommunications, oil and gas, and construction.
We represent a broad spectrum of clients, from small and medium sized enterprises, non-governmental organisations and multinational corporations to educational institutions, construction companies, media content producers, gaming companies, technology products and service providers.
Responding to our clients’ preference for resourcing flexibility and specific solutions, we offer a tailored and adaptable solution depending on their requirements. We pride ourselves on identifying business concerns, thereby providing our clients with legal services which are sensible, cost-effective and timely. We approach projects with a holistic value proposition, by collaborating with professional external associates whom we trust and have strong reputations.
Additionally, we are able to scale up or down according to your demands with precise fee pricing, as well as integrate with your business team when necessary by being present onsite. This combines the expertise of a private practice lawyer with the accessibility of an in-house counsel.
Facing a criminal charge is definitely one of the most stressful things one has to deal with. You will receive wise counsel from us, including whether to plead guilty or to claim trial. For most cases, a well delivered mitigation plea would make a real difference to the sentence to be meted out by the judge.
We advise on real estate sale and purchase transactions, investments, divestments, project development and financing, leases, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), joint ventures and more. Moreover, our incorporation of Andrew Yap & Co enable us to have over 40 years of experience in this practice area.
Director
Ronald JJ Wong believes that lawyering is about serving people to bring justice, well-being and peace.
Formerly from a big four firm, he handles commercial disputes and advises on transactions. He has advised and represented institutional and individual clients in a broad range of disputes including international multimillion-dollar investment claims, corporate shareholder disputes, construction disputes, employment disputes, insolvency-related claims, and competition law litigation.
He also advises corporations and startups alike on commercial transactions, investments, acquisitions and legal issues arising from innovative technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, token sales, data management, intellectual property, and digital payments.
He is also a Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC) Accredited Mediator and is available for appointment as mediator for various types of disputes.
He was listed in Asia Business Law Journal 2018 & 2019, A-List Singapore’s Top 100 Lawyers. He has been lauded “as very sound, very calm, very clever and a great advocate”. He was attached to South Square Chambers, a leading set of English commercial and insolvency law barristers in London. He also advocates for social justice and acts pro bono for marginalized persons. He serves as a Trial Advocacy tutor in the National University of Singapore (NUS) Law Faculty.
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Managing Director
Ee Yang has walked an unconventional path in legal practice. Having begun his career in one of the top law firms in Singapore, he embarked on an exciting adventure of starting a general litigation practice in his 5th year of practice, first under a “chambers arrangement” in a medium sized law firm and eventually as the founder of Covenant Chambers LLC in 2016. Although he enjoyed having impeccable chemistry with his superior and team in one of the “Big Four”, he felt a call from within to leave in order to serve individuals and small and medium enterprises and be a contributor to solving the problem of access to justice and rising legal costs in Singapore.
He strives to raise the legal sector to new heights by leveraging his wealth of experience and passion in advocacy and empowering the next generation of competent lawyers.
One of the notable cases Ee Yang had advocated as lead counsel early in his career is a landmark judgment where he successfully applied to the High Court of Singapore under the doctrine of donatio mortis causa for the revocation of a “deathbed gift” by his client (Koh Cheong Heng v Ho Yee Fong [2011] SGHC 48).
2017-2018 was a breakthrough year for Ee Yang as an advocate, in particular two notable victories in the High Court of Singapore:
Ee Yang continued 2019 with another victory in the case of Teo Lay Gek & Another v Hoang Trong Binh & Another [2019] SGHC 84, where he successfully applied to enforce a settlement agreement made pursuant to mediation at the Singapore Mediation Centre for the sum of USD$4,165,675. This cross border dispute between Vietnamese and Australian shareholders of a Singapore holding company raised an interesting issue relating to the grounds for setting aside an expert valuation.
Ee Yang recently appeared as lead counsel in a trial before the Competition Appeals Board on the largest competition prosecution on price fixing and anti-aggression pact under Section 34 of the Competition Act.
The notable matters that Ee Yang acted as lead counsel in recent years include:
Ee Yang actively engages in criminal pro bono work. In his free time, Ee Yang enjoys golf and soccer and is a member of the Law Society golf and premier soccer teams.
Ee Yang was also the recipient of the prestigious Singapore Academy of Law Overseas Scholarship and had completed an attachment in 2015 with Essex Court Chambers, a top set of barristers chambers in the United Kingdom, working with established Queen’s Counsel. He used to be an adjunct instructor at the National University of Singapore, teaching in the Legal Analysis, Research and Communications course.
Ee Yang currently serves as the Vice Chairman of Law Christian Fellowship, a sectional group under Graduates Christian Fellowship, which aim to Fellowship, Witness and Serve. Ee Yang also serves in the Board of Elders of Riverlife Church.
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