Profile:

Charmaine Lye practices predominantly in commercial matters, including matters involving corporate and securities law, trade practices, contract and tort law.

Previous experience:

Charmaine received a scholarship from the Singapore government to study law at Cambridge, where she took First Class Honours, the Cambridge University Norton Rose Botterell and Roche Prize for Commercial Law and the Pembroke College Ziegler Prize for Law. After taking the Bar Finals in London, Ms Lye joined the Inner Temple. Thereafter her scholarship obliged her to return to the Singapore legal service, where she first prosecuted white collar crime and then pioneered as one of Singapore’s first two equivalents of judge’s associates to the Court of Appeal and High Court. She then entered private practice and pursued this in Singapore, Hong Kong and New York in a broad range of domestic and international commercial, corporate, finance and capital markets transactions. The matters she was involved in during those years include the initial public offerings of companies in Singapore and Hong Kong, joint ventures and projects in China, international structured finance for oil and gas pipelines and rolling stock, and several civil fraud matters including action concerning a large scale fraud on an international bank in New York. She has on word-of-mouth recommendation personally advised an international stock market on legal matters involving another international stock market. She co-edited The Regulation of the Financial and Capital Markets published by Singapore National Press and has lectured in commercial law on the Melbourne University JD programme. She is a law reporter for the Commonwealth Law Reports and authored the updates to concurrent Torts, strict liability and damages in the Torts.
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Since coming to the Victorian Bar, Charmaine has dealt with matters in the Federal Court, Supreme Court, County Court and Magistrates Court and also with matters before tribunals such as the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal and the Chinese Medicine Registration Board.


Languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, French.