ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND GOVERNANCE
Overview
Lee & Lee’s ESG practice calls upon the firm’s cross-disciplinary expertise and full-service capabilities to address the full range of environmental, social, and governance issues faced by businesses in Singapore.
Whether you are an international investment company embarking on a sustainability-linked infrastructure project or a small-medium enterprise navigating environmental regulations, our team of subject-matter lawyers stand ready to offer practical, effective, and commercially-sensible guidance and expertise amidst the evolving ESG regulatory landscape.
Our Work
Our areas of practice include:
- ESG regulation and governance
- Sustainability-linked mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, IPOs
- Competition law advisory
- Intellectual property protection of green technologies
- Renewable energy projects (wind, solar and geothermal)
- Green financing and bonds
- Impact investments
- Voluntary Carbon Offsets and Credits, and carbon tax regulations
- ESG-related litigation and disputes, including greenwashing claims
Case Highlights
Some of our ESG practice group’s notable cases and transactions include:
Environment
- Advising a leading technology multinational company on the market launch of a VR/AR product, including compliance with environmental and sustainability-related regulations such as the management of electronic waste and the handling of hazardous substances;
- Advising a listed dairy company on the use of recycling logos on their products in Singapore;
- Advising clients in the solar power plant industry on government tax and other incentives relevant to the research and development, procurement, and construction of solar power plants in Singapore;
- Advising on a joint venture relating to the construction and management of hydro-power plants in Sumatra, Indonesia;
- Advising a client in a fund-raising exercise for the development of a wind power plant in Thailand;
- Advising a client in an investment into the first Asia-Pacific renewable energy trust, which as structured as a private business trust with a target AUM of S$380 million;
Social Governance
- Representing and advising clients on various data protection and cybersecurity matters, including acting for a client in responding to and obtaining a favourable outcome in relation to a data breach incident.
- Providing advice pertaining to matters such as corporate governance, labour and employment, workplace health and safety, and life sciences regulations.
Contact Partners
For further information, please contact:
Zechariah J H Chan, P.B.M.
Boh Mei Mei Linette
Joel Teo Zhu-En
Liane Lim
Jasper Lim
Yan Chongshuo