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
Trusts, Wills & Probate
Legacy Planning: Wills & Trusts
Planning your legacy is an important part of managing your wealth to ensure that your assets are distributed to your intended beneficiaries and to reduce conflict in your family after your passing. Our lawyers are able to assist in preparing simple or complex testamentary wills which reflect clients’ intentions and remove ambiguity in all estate matters and prevent legal challenges in the future.
Our lawyers are also skilled in helping you structure and create trusts in order to protect, manage, and preserve your assets. From private family trusts and testamentary trusts to discretionary trusts and charitable trusts, creating a trust helps to make certain your intention and chosen beneficiaries.
We also advise on and assist in preparing Lasting Powers of Attorney and applications under the Mental Capacity Act, e.g. to appoint deputies or make testamentary wills, in situations where a person has lost the mental capacity to make key decisions.
Probate & Estate Administration
When a loved one passes on, our team of experienced and meticulous lawyers can help you through the process of applying for a Grant of Probate (where there is a valid will) or Grant of Letters of Administration (where there is no will). These Grants enable the executor or administrator to manage and distribute the assets of the deceased.
While such periods can be grief-filled, we have walked with many estate executors and administrators as they managed the deceased’s assets, ensuring smooth and proper distribution of assets to the right beneficiaries.
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.”
Edwin Sim
Director
E-mail: edwin.sim@covenantchambers.com
Edwin carries a wealth of experience, having been in practice for 30 years. Edwin’s extensive tenure provides him with an unparalleled depth of insight into how wills, trusts, and estate structures stand up to the test of time. A versatile and seasoned advocate, he regularly guides clients through drafting wills, executing Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs), and navigating probate and administration matters.
Edwin’s experience as an advocate is reflected in the diverse matters he handles, ranging from personal injury claims to building and construction matters (including SOPA claims), as well as 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. Notably, he led a group of claimants to a landmark victory in the Appellate Division of the High Court in a complex trust dispute involving sums in excess of $20 million.
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.
Chia Huai Yuan
Director
E-mail: hy.chia@covenantchambers.com
Huai Yuan is a Director with Covenant Chambers, handling a broad spectrum of civil, commercial, and criminal matters. In the field of litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution, Huai Yuan has worked on matters in all levels of court and in arbitration proceedings. He frequently advises families, high-net-worth individuals, and institutions on succession disputes, claims for breach of trust, property disputes, matrimonial matters and asset distribution. Above all, Huai Yuan serves clients with sincerity, approaching sensitive issues with a patient, empathetic, and attentive mindset.
Huai Yuan is personally distinguished by market recognition. He has been named one of Asia’s Super 50 dispute resolution lawyers and a Rising Star by Asian Legal Business. He is recommended by The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific for dispute resolution, insurance, and employment, and is ranked as a Future Star by Benchmark Litigation. Singapore Business Review also identified him as one of Singapore’s 30 most influential lawyers under 40. Clients consistently commend him as a deeply compassionate advisor during emotionally challenging times.
Huai Yuan’s current success is built upon a prestigious foundational career. A First Class Honours graduate from the National University of Singapore, he was handpicked to serve as a Justices’ Law Clerk to the Chief Justice and Justices of the Supreme Court of Singapore. He also served as a Deputy Public Prosecutor and State Counsel at the Attorney-General’s Chambers, where he handled financial and technology-related crimes. In 2018, Huai Yuan was appointed onto the Singapore Supreme Court’s panel of lawyers (known as young amicus curiae) tasked with assisting it on select cases involving important questions of law concerning the public interest. He is effectively bilingual and fluent in both English and Mandarin.
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.
