Lawyers

Terence Tan

Terence Tan

Work Department

Dispute Resolution

Position

Director, Dispute Resolution

Career

Terence has experience handling a wide range of corporate, commercial and other complex disputes in litigation and arbitration (under the rules of the SIAC or ICC). His practice centers around disputes involving company directors and/or shareholders, minority oppression, breaches of fiduciary or directors’ duties, civil fraud and conspiracy, joint venture agreements, sale and purchase agreements, banking and finance, employment, and technology.

Terence also has an active criminal law practice, and has acted as lead counsel in numerous trials involving a diverse array of commercial and non-commercial criminal offences. Terence is also an active volunteer with the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme, under which he offers pro bono legal representation to the needy.

Terence graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he was on the Dean’s List for multiple years, on the overall Dean’s List, and was awarded the Gower Prize as the top student in Company Law. He also represented NUS in the International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot, and was a student editor for the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies.

In Part B of the Singapore Bar Examinations, Terence was ranked joint sixth, was awarded distinctions for multiple subjects, and was awarded the SILE Prize for the best student in Ethics & Professional Responsibility.

Terence was also awarded the Singapore Academy of Law Post-Qualification Overseas Attachment, and was attached with Blackstone Chambers, a leading set of barristers’ chambers in the United Kingdom.

Terence is also occasionally a tutor for the Trial Advocacy module at NUS, and a trainer for the advocacy module of Part B of the Bar Examinations.

Practice areas

Arbitration Banking & Finance Building & Construction Commercial Litigation Corporate Litigation Crime Defamation Employment Financial Services Regulation Information Technology Wills, Probate and Estate Administration

Languages

English

Memberships

Member, Law Society of Singapore Member, Singapore Academy of Law Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Committee Member, Civil Practice Committee of the Law Society of Singapore

Education

LL.B. (Hons), National University of Singapore (2012) Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore (2013)