Shook Lin & Bok LLP

Construction & Projects; Employment; International Arbitration; Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Joseph Tay specialises in Litigation & Dispute Resolution, International Arbitration and Construction & Projects.

As a dispute resolution specialist, Joseph has a strong track record in securing favourable outcomes for his clients, with a remarkable win-ratio in matters where he has acted as lead counsel. He has appeared at all levels of the Supreme Court of Singapore, in international commercial arbitrations administered by leading arbitral institutions, and in adjudication proceedings commenced under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act (Cap. 30B). Clients have described Joseph to be “formidable” and “talented” as an advocate, and “spectacular” in his conduct of trials and cross-examination.

Joseph’s experience and expertise extends to a wide range of matters relating to contractual disputes, interlocutory injunctions and freezing (Mareva) order injunctions, financial services and securities, building and construction, infrastructure and projects, real estate sale and lease, employment laws and directors’ duties, non-competition obligations and restrictive covenants, commodities and trade, restructuring and insolvency, shareholders’ disputes and commercial fraud.

Joseph is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.  Joseph is listed on the panel of arbitrators for the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (Reserve Panel) and on the panel of arbitrators for Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (Secondary Panel).  Joseph is concurrently a member of the Inquiry Panel of the Law Society of Singapore.

English; Mandarin

Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore, 2008 LLB (Hons), National University of Singapore, 2007 Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Fellow, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators Arbitrator listed on the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Reserve Panel Arbitrator listed on the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, Secondary Panel