COVENANT CHAMBERS LLC
About Us
Covenant Chambers LLC is a premier mid-sized conflicts-free boutique firm in Singapore, distinguished by a robust litigation practice that handles complex, cross-border commercial and dispute resolution matters.
Our multi-disciplinary team advises on both contentious and non-contentious matters, including Corporate, Commercial & Financial, Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Employment, Technology & IP, Property, Disputes & International Arbitration, Private Client and Construction & Engineering.
We are trusted counsel for enterprises and private clients, in the courtroom and the boardroom, providing pragmatic, responsive, and astute legal solutions. Recognised by directories such as The Legal 500, Asian Legal Business, Doyle’s Guide, asialaw, and Benchmark Litigation, we continue to deliver proven results in both our rankings and our engagements.
Our success is deeply rooted in the longevity of our client relationships. We prioritise close, enduring partnerships built on direct accessibility and a profound understanding of our clients’ interests.
With a growing team of over 20 lawyers, we provide the steady hand and seasoned perspective necessary to resolve challenging legal problems, merging large-firm excellence with bespoke, partner-led attention.
Find out more about us at https://www.covenantchambers.com/.
Area of Practice
Civil Litigation (General)
From business disputes and asset recovery, to disputes about property or trusts, our disputes lawyers are experienced in tailoring bespoke legal solutions to highly complex matters in advancing clients’ interests. Creative, versatile, and cost-effective in our approach, we aim to be a trusted partner by identifying your business interests before recommending a workable, strategic game plan.
We act for clients in pursuing or defending claims and proceedings involving contract, tort, defamation, MCST disputes, debt recovery and succession disputes. We understand the objectives of our individual and corporate clients and plan an approach that dovetails with their medium- and long-term goals.
Our Lawyers
Lee Ee Yang
Managing Director
E-mail:
eeyang.lee@covenantchambers.com
Lee Ee Yang is the Managing Director of Covenant Chambers LLC, where he leads the firm’s Dispute Resolution and Private Client practices. Since founding Covenant Chambers in 2016, Ee Yang has driven the firm’s trajectory into a premier boutique practice celebrated for its pragmatic, responsive, and astute legal solutions.
Ee Yang began his career at one of Singapore’s “Big Four” law firms after graduating from the National University of Singapore. A recipient of the prestigious Singapore Academy of Law Overseas Scholarship, he completed a training attachment at Essex Court Chambers, a highly regarded barristers’ chambers in the United Kingdom, working with established King’s Counsel.
With extensive experience as lead counsel before all levels of the Singapore Courts, Ee Yang represents MNCs, SMEs, high-net-worth individuals, and private clients in commercial, property, and trust litigation. His recent representations include securing a court-ordered sale of a landed residential property before the Appellate Division of the High Court in Tan Huat Chan v Wu Lee Choo [2026] SGHC(A) 15, and obtaining an urgent High Court interim proprietary injunction restraining executors from disposing over $12 million in estate assets. His landmark advocacy includes the Court of Appeal judgment in Li Jialin v Wingcrown Investment Pte Ltd [2024] SGCA 48, which clarified the law on deposit forfeitures, and obtaining a novel grant pendente lite in an estate dispute involving assets over S$10 million in XBW v XBX [2024] SGHCF 30.
Ee Yang has received accolades such as the LegalOne Blue Ribbon: Dispute Resolution (Southeast Asia 2025) alongside a listing as an asialaw Notable Practitioner. Committed to access to justice, Ee Yang actively engages in pro bono work.
Ronald JJ Wong
Deputy Managing Director
E-mail: ronald.wong@covenantchambers.com
Ronald is an Advocate, Counsel, Strategist, and Technologist. He believes in serving people to bring about justice and peace.
Having moved on from dismantling electronic devices and coding computer games at age 10, Ronald found his calling as a lawyer and honed his legal craft at a Big Four firm, Rajah & Tann.
Ronald’s practice is in both disputes and transactional work, with a special interest in technology, finance, intellectual property (IP), and employment.
Ronald takes pride in being strategic, sharp, technically savvy, and bespoke.
In litigation and arbitration, Ronald has represented institutional and individual clients at all levels of the Singapore courts and various arbitration institutions and in a range of disputes, including multi-million-dollar investment claims, patent infringements, insolvency-related claims, director-shareholder disputes, succession disputes and cryptocurrency claims.
In his advisory and transactional practice, Ronald has advised clients in a wide range of areas, including technology, FinTech, MedTech, artificial intelligence (AI), data and privacy, Web3, IP, media, blockchain, digital assets, payment services, employment, investments and corporate finance, financial services, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), probate and estate administration, and legacy planning.
Ronald is also a Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC) Accredited Mediator and volunteers in providing pro / low bono legal services. He advocates for social justice in various platforms, and frequently authors academic and thought papers, some of which have been published in various journals.
Clients consistently commend Ronald as a dependable, responsive, and highly efficient professional. As one client summarised: “Ronald is one of the best lawyers you could ever be fortunate enough to come across.”
Khelvin Xu
Director
E-mail:
khelvin.xu@covenantchambers.com
Khelvin spent 15 years at one of the Big Four firms, where he was a partner specialising in commercial litigation and arbitration. As a Director at Covenant Chambers, he now combines big firm expertise and sophistication with the agility and flexibility of a chambers model.
Khelvin’s practice has a particular focus on complex and cross-border commercial disputes, particularly those involving technology and cryptocurrency. He regularly handles matters involving B2B disputes, shareholder agreements, minority oppression, directors’ duties, and employment issues. He appears:
- at all levels of the Supreme Court and State Courts of Singapore;
- in international arbitrations, having handled arbitrations seated in New York, Vietnam, and Singapore (involving parties from the Cayman Islands, Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, and Vietnam); and
- in mediations for international and domestic disputes.
Khelvin is a Co-Vice Chairperson of the Advocacy Committee of the Law Society of Singapore. He regularly conducts advocacy training as lead trainer, has conducted training overseas, and is also involved in train-the-trainer sessions.
Khelvin is a by-invitation-only Specialist Mediator empanelled with the Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC), and is a certified Mediation Advocate under the International Mediation Institute.
Khelvin is also a Council member of the Law Society of Singapore, and authors the “Legal Profession” chapter for the Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases.
Clients say he is “really switched on and on top of his game”, is “highly innovative in his approach”, sets out “a clear approach toward resolving challenging situations, simplifying discussions on complex matters”, is “very professional and savvy”, and puts client interests “at the forefront at all times”. Other lawyers say he has a “confident and persuasive” advocacy style, is “diligent, responsible, thoughtful”, approaches problems with “a clinical precision”, and is “a real fighter you would love to have on your side”.
Edwin Sim
Director
E-mail: edwin.sim@covenantchambers.com
Edwin carries a wealth of experience, having been in practice for 30 years. His versatility as an advocate is reflected in the diverse matters he handles. Edwin has represented clients in breach of contract cases, Competition & Antitrust issues, and application proceedings for injunctions. His trial experience also spans personal injury claims, building and construction matters (including SOPA claims), and complex trust disputes. As lead counsel, he has conducted many trials in the State Courts and High Court and has led successful appeals in the Appellate Division of the High Court, as well as in arbitration disputes.
Edwin’s practice areas also include non-contentious work where he provides advice on general corporate matters, employment-related issues, LPAs, wills and probate work. Edwin has been retained as counsel by a number of corporate organisations and has held directorships and board member roles in companies, associations, NGOs and MCST councils.
Edwin understands that it is often in the client’s best interest to resolve a dispute amicably. Whether it is preserving the harmony of relationships, helping the client to achieve closure, obtaining certainty or managing a disadvantageous financial situation, mediation is the key process to these outcomes. Edwin has successfully resolved many conflicts through mediation both as counsel and as a mediator. He is an accredited mediator with the Singapore International Mediation Institute and is appointed on the panel of the Law Society Mediation Scheme. He volunteers also as a Community Mediator appointed by the Ministry of Law’s Community Mediation Centre.
Driven by a commitment to access to justice, Edwin has been a volunteer with the Law Society’s pro-bono legal clinic for the past 25 years where he continues to contribute to public talks, video campaigns and clinics with the Law Society.
Charis Wong
Director
E-mail: charis.wong@covenantchambers.com
“The kind of lawyer you want on your side,” “embodying professionalism to its finest”, “continually going the extra mile to ensure my best interests were at the forefront” – these are words that clients have used to describe Charis. As a courtroom advocate who navigates legal challenges with compassion and a heart for justice, Charis is committed to finding practical solutions for her clients.
Charis regularly conducts matters at all levels of court. Recent highlights where she successfully acted as lead counsel include:
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- In 2026, she successfully obtained a mandatory injunction from the High Court to compel a company with a paid-up capital of USD5 million, its directors and/or officers to register on ACRA the founder-shareholders’ appointment of nominee directors to the company’s board.
- In 2025, she successfully acted for an investor in an SIAC arbitration investment dispute involving sums of about $5 million, and resisted an application for damages pursuant to an undertaking in a Mareva Order, in CVK v CVO and others [2025] SGHC 245.
- In 2022, she successfully obtained a worldwide freezing injunction against several entities prohibiting the disposal of their assets worldwide in aid of arbitration.
With experience in a broad range of practice areas, Charis regularly tackles challenges which cross various domains, with legal tools and a problem-solving lens.
Charis has a special interest in family and matrimonial law, and advises clients on pre-nuptial agreements, post-nuptial agreements, divorces, separation, custody and guardianship, maintenance applications, domestic violence, and deputyship proceedings. Charis also handles disputes between family members over properties, companies and probate and administration matters.
While Charis enjoys the cut and thrust of litigation, she is also a firm believer in alternative dispute resolution, and has facilitated the resolution of many cases through mediation and private settlement.
