Kee Min Lee

Lee Kee Min is a Partner in Dentons Rodyk's Finance practice group.

Kee Min's main areas of practice focus on banking and finance transactions.

Kee Min deals in a wide scope of banking and finance matters and represents both financiers and borrowers in bilateral, club, syndicated, transferable, domestic and cross-border finance transactions. He has also handled real estate transactions involving financing of acquisitions and developments of residential, commercial and industrial real estate projects.

• Acting as Singapore counsel for China Development Bank Corporation and Bank of China Limited, in their capacity as mandated lead arrangers, Bank of China Limited, Sydney Branch as agent and security trustee, and China Development Bank Corporation and Bank of China Limited as lenders in the grant of a US$751 million syndicated loan facility in the refinancing of the existing debt substitution and term loan facilities under the China Minmetals Corporation group of companies, a China-based metals and minerals group developing, supplying and distributing nonferrous metal resources, iron ore and steel products.
• Acting as Singapore counsel to a group of banks comprising ING Bank N.V., J.P. Morgan Limited, J.P. Morgan Securities plc, BNP Paribas, Unicredit Bank AG, Société Générale CIB, HSBC France and HSBC BANK PLC, as arrangers and/or initial lenders in the financing of a pre-conditional voluntary general cash offer by CMA CGM S.A., a French shipping company for all the issued and paid up ordinary shares in the capital of Neptune Orient Lines Limited (NOL), Southeast Asia's largest container shipping company, subject to the satisfaction of the pre-conditions specified in such announcement. The deal value of this transaction amounts to nearly S$3.4 billion.
• Acting for a bank in its various capacities as agent, security agent, arranger, original lender and account bank, in the grant of credit facilities to Grand Apex Holdings Pte Ltd, to part-finance the acquisition of all the issued and paid-up ordinary shares in Popular Holdings Limited through the voluntary conditional cash offer.
• Acting for Plaza Ventures Pte Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GSH Corporation Limited, TYJ Group Pte Ltd, and Vibrant DB2 Pte Ltd, in its capacity as borrower in the multi¬million syndicated facilities comprising land and construction loans to finance the land acquisition and proposed additions and alterations of the property known as Equity Plaza at 20 Cecil Street, Singapore.
• Acting for a bank, as lender, in loan facilities comprising a land loan, differential premium loan, construction loan and working capital loan of an aggregate principal amount of approximately S$240 million, granted to a Singapore borrower to finance the acquisition and development of an executive condominium project in Singapore.

• Banking

• Banking
• Financial services

• Member, Law Society of Singapore
• Member, Singapore Academy of Law

•  LLB (Hons), National University of Singapore, 2008