Kwong Chiew Ee

Partner

Chiew Ee’s areas of practice include corporate and commercial litigation, restructuring and insolvency, and international arbitration. She is also part of the Firm’s ESG & Public Policy practice.

Her disputes experience includes acting in corporate disputes, claims for breach of fiduciary and directors’ duties, contentious restructuring and insolvency proceedings, fraud litigation and asset tracing proceedings. She routinely works together with audit and forensic investigators in fraud and corporate investigations and has also been instructed by clients to lead forensic and audit investigations. Chiew Ee also has experience acting for and advising local and foreign clients in both contentious and non-contentious cross-border restructuring & insolvency matters.

In 2022, she was named in Asian Legal Business’ Asia 40 Under 40 list, which recognises the most accomplished lawyers in Asia under the age of 40, and was also listed in ALB’s Rising Stars Malaysia 2022.

Chiew Ee is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Panel Adjudicator at the Asian International Arbitration Centre. She is a member of the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) and INSOL International.

She is recognised as a thought leader in cross-border commercial disputes, having co-authored Commercial Conflict of Laws in Malaysia, the sole Malaysian practitioner text on the subject, published by Sweet & Maxwell, which has been cited by the High Court of Malaya.

Chiew Ee is also the Malaysian National Rapporteur for Climate Change Litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change, Columbia University. She is a member of the Bar Council Environment & Climate Change Committee and the Joint Committee on ESG. In 2022, she was selected as a Professional Fellow for the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (Sustainable Development & Environment Institute) by the US Department of State.