About
Tan Yee Chen is a legal practitioner with more than four years of experience in contentious and non-contentious matters. Yee Chen’s experience encompasses commercial and contractual disputes, criminal defence, matrimonial proceedings, debt recovery, corporate advisory work, and regulatory compliance.
At CLSH, Yee Chen has acted in complex and high-stakes proceedings, including cross-border commercial litigation involving parties in the United States, Malaysia, and serious criminal matters under the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, and a high-value matrimonial dispute.
Yee Chen has served as a senior legal and compliance officer at a well-established publicly listed entity in the FMCG sector, where she led legal and regulatory matters, provided insightful reporting to stakeholders, and supported the organisation’s corporate governance and risk management.
Practice Focus
Yee Chen’s practice focuses on dispute resolution, with particular expertise in commercial disputes, contractual claims, matrimonial proceedings, debt recovery, and cross-border matters. Yee Chen also draws on substantial in-house experience in commercial contracting, corporate compliance, and legal risk management initiatives. Yee Chen’s key areas of practice include:
- Commercial and contractual disputes: Advising and representing businesses in claims involving breaches of contract, confidentiality, warranties, tenancies, and other commercial matters.
- Civil litigation and dispute resolution: Managing matters from pre-action advice through pleadings, interlocutory applications, hearings, trials, appeals, negotiations, and settlement.
- Cross-border litigation: Coordinating with clients, witnesses, and foreign legal counsel in disputes involving multiple jurisdictions and internationally connected parties.
- Matrimonial and family disputes: Acting in contested divorce proceedings and preparing divorce petitions, affidavits, witness statements, subpoenas, written submissions, and settlement agreements.
- Debt recovery and enforcement: Handling debt recovery proceedings, summary judgment applications, judgment debtor summonses, winding-up processes, foreclosure matters, and out-of-court settlement negotiations.
- Commercial agreements and compliance: Reviewing, drafting, and advising on commercial agreements, internal policies, regulatory obligations, corporate governance, and legal risk mitigation.
Professional Qualifications
- Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya
- Certificate in Legal Practice (CLP) 2019
- LL.B (Hons), Northumbria University
Languages
- English (Full Professional Proficiency)
- Malay (Full Professional Proficiency)
- Mandarin (Full Professional Proficiency)