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Lee Liat Yeang is a partner in Rodyk & Davidson LLP's Real Estate Practice Group.

Liat Yeang started his legal practice with the litigation department where he handled, among others, disputes and claims regarding real estate. In late 1994, he joined the real estate department where he began to focus and specialise his legal practice. Since then, Liat Yeang has been involved in all aspects of real estate work including collective sales, purchase, mortgage financing and development work for developers and real estate financing work. He acts for various financial institutions and established corporations in numerous real estate matters.

Since 1999, Liat Yeang has handled numerous collective sales projects, acting for the vendors in the collective sale (including attendance at the hearings of the applications to Strata Titles Boards for their approval of the sale). He was consulted by the Ministry of Law in 2007 and 2009 when the Ministry was considering proposed changes to laws governing the collective sale process. The prominent collective sales deals that he has handled include Eastern Mansion, Amberville, Beverly Mai, Nathanville, Farrer Court, Fairways Condominium and Oakswood Heights.

Liat Yeang also acts for a number of real estate developers in their acquisition, sale and/or project sales of their project-developments. Some of his key developer-clients include Sim Lian, Chip Eng Seng (CEL Development), Roxy Pacific Holdings, Tuan Sing Holdings, Property Enterprise Development of Cheung Kong Group and the Novelty Group. His more prominent projects include acting for Sim Lian in the acquisition of a large government land sales site at Tampines Ave 1, acting for Tuan Sing in the wholesale of entire Katong Mall, acting for CEL Development / Lehmann Brothers joint venture entity in the collective purchase of Westpeak (a project in the West Coast with purchase price of S$206 million) and the CEL Development/Citadel group joint venture entity in the collective purchase of Grange Towers (a project situated in the Orchard area, worth S$180 million). Liat Yeang is also lead partner in advising Sim Lian for their Design Build & Sell Scheme project at Tampines, the first of its kind in Singapore where private developers tender, develop, build and sell HDB flats. He is also acting for Sim Lian in their second Design Build & Sell Scheme project at Simei.

Liat Yeang served as member of the Law Society's Conveyancing Practice Committee for several years. Outside of his profession, he is active in the National University of Singapore Society where he was a member of the Management Committee for a few years.