Lau, Kah Hee
Partner BC Lim and Lau LLC
Energy and Minerals , Entertainment , Industrial and Manufacturing , Government and Public Sector , Innovation and New Ventures , Logistics , Media and Entertainment , Oil and Gas , Private Equity and Venture Capital , Commodities , Education
Work
Industry
Energy and Minerals
Entertainment
Industrial and Manufacturing
Government and Public Sector
Innovation and New Ventures
Logistics
Media and Entertainment
Oil and Gas
Private Equity and Venture Capital
Commodities
Education
Jurisdiction
Singapore
United States of America (the)
Expertise
Banking and Finance
Capital Markets and Securities
Civil and Commercial Litigation
Aviation Law
Competition Law
Contract And Tort
Conveyancing and Real Estate
Criminal Law
Debt Collection and Insolvency
Employment Law
Arbitration and Dispute Resolution
Engineering and Construction
Entertainment Law
Financial Services and Securities
Financial Services Regulatory
General Corporate
Global Anti-Corruption
Information Technology
Immigration Law
Insolvency and Restructuring
Investment Funds
Intellectual Property
Insurance and Claims
Matrimonial and Family Law
Medical Law
Mergers and Acquisitions
Oil and Gas
Real Estate
Tax
Wealth Planning
Wills, Probates, Trust
Negotiation Services
Sports and Media Law
Technology, Media, Telecoms
Venture Capital and Equity Funds
Customer Type
Individuals & Companies
Affiliation
Law Society of Singapore, Singapore Academy of Law, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA), New York State Bar, Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC), State Courts (Mediator), National University of Singapore (NUS), University of Cambridge, University of Oxford-Brookes
Education
Education
University of Cambridge
Certification
NA
Year First Admitted To Bar
2008
Languages Spoken
English (GB)
Mandarin
Languages Written
English (GB)
Mandarin
About Me
Kah Hee is actively involved in commercial litigation, arbitration, as well as immigration law, employment law, corporate compliance and governance. He also has experience advising and acting for various parties in contractual, commercial, corporate, banking, property, employment and financial, investment related disputes. In the areas of corporate compliance, Kah Hee's practice includes bank fraud investigation, defence against government/regulatory investigations and white collar criminal matters. Kah Hee has experience in contentious tax matters, and given his dual qualification as both an Attorney as well as a Chartered Certified Accountant, he has developed a deep interest in tax litigation and advisory work, and has published in the area of tax avoidance. Kah Hee read law at both the National University of Singapore and the University of Cambridge where he graduated respectively with a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) in 2008 and a Master of Laws (First Class Honours) in 2011 on the Lee Foundation Scholarship. Kah Hee is qualified as an Advocate & Solicitor in Singapore and as an Attorney-at-Law in New York, and his legal career has spanned almost a decade. He was placed second in the Singapore bar exams and was awarded the Lai Kew Chai prize for being the top candidate in Commercial Practice. Kah Hee is dually-qualified as both an Attorney as well as a Chartered Certified Accountant. Kah Hee obtained the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants professional degree in 2010, was the prize winner for the final exams, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) in Applied Accounting. Kah Hee is also an Accredited Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre. He is also one of 75 mediators appointed by the State Court as a Volunteer Mediator for a term of 3 years till 2019, and has further been appointed as an Associate Mediator by the Law Society of Singapore. Kah Hee began his legal career in 2008 as a Justices' Law Clerk and then as an Assistant Registrar at the Supreme Court of Singapore where he worked for the Chief Justice and Judges of Singapore. Thereafter, Kah Hee was appointed a Deputy Public Prosecutor and State Counsel at the white-collar crime division of the Attorney-General's Chambers of Singapore in 2010. During his stint in the Singapore Legal Service, Kah Hee was also an adjunct member of the teaching faculty at the National University of Singapore, School of Business where he taught the final year accounting students Corporate & Securities Law. Kah Hee then practised litigation and arbitration as a Senior Associate with the largest local law firm in Singapore (Rajah & Tann LLP) and the largest international law firm in the world (Baker & McKenzie), before joining Derrick Wong & Lim BC LLP as a Partner in April 2016 and then BC Lim & Lau LLC as a Director in January 2020.