Mr Adrian Chan
Honorary Secretary
Association of Small and Medium Enterprises


Adrian is Head of the Corporate Department and a Senior Partner at Lee & Lee. He joined Lee & Lee in 1989 and has been a partner there since 1995. He is recommended as a Leading Individual for Corporate/M&A in Singapore by Chambers Global in The Client’s Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, which describes him as a "heavyweight [who is] a great favourite with his many corporate clients" and who is "a serious lawyer doing an excellent job".

He has served for more than ten years on the Corporate Practice Committee of the Law Society of Singapore. He is also a director of Lovells Lee & Lee, the joint law venture between Lee & Lee and the international law firm, Lovells. He is the Non-Executive Chairman of AEM Holdings Ltd and is an independent director on the Boards of United Pulp & Paper Company Limited, Isetan (Singapore) Limited, Oniontech Limited, Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd and Global Investments Limited, all of which are listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX).

He serves on the Governing Council of the Singapore Institute of Directors and sits on the Listed Companies Committee of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce. He has been appointed to the Audit Committee Guidance Committee, established by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority and the Singapore Exchange as a panel that has been set up to develop practical guidance for audit committees of SGX-listed companies and raise corporate governance standards.

He has also been appointed to the Corporate Governance and Directors’ Duties Working Group of the Steering Committee that has been established by the Ministry of Finance to review and rewrite the Companies Act of Singapore. In addition, he has served on the Lemon Law Taskforce set up by the Ministry of Trade & Industry and CASE to determine if there is a need for lemon laws in Singapore and to make recommendations to the government on the scope and form they should take. He has also served on the Taxpayers Feedback Panel of the Inland Revenue of Singapore.

He has served with the Executive Council of ASME since 2004 and is currently ASME’s Honorary Secretary.