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Mr Sean Tan

+65 6531 2355 sean.tan@drewnapier.com View profile

Work Department

Dispute Resolution

Position

Associate Director, Dispute Resolution

Career

Sean practices civil litigation and international arbitration.

He handles a variety of matters, including matters relating to director / shareholder disputes, professional negligence, workplace safety, employment, manufacturing, consumer products, and finance.

Sean has represented multinational corporations and high net worth individuals at all levels of the Singapore Courts and in international arbitration.

Sean graduated with First Class Honours in law from Oxford University in 2014, winning the Worsley Prize for outstanding academic performance and contribution to college life. After passing the Singapore Bar examinations, he joined Michael Hwang Chambers as an arbitration associate in 2016. Sean qualified as a solicitor of England and Wales in 2017, and thereafter undertook an LL.M. at Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Scholar. Upon graduation from Columbia, Sean was admitted to the New York Bar in 2018 and practiced as a litigation associate with Debevoise & Plimpton in New York until late 2020 when he returned to Singapore.

Sean is a contributing editor of Singapore Civil Procedure, Sweet & Maxwell.

Languages

English

Memberships

• Member, Singapore Academy of Law
• Member, Law Society of Singapore

Education

• B.A. (Hons), Oxford University (UK, 2014)
• LL.M., Columbia Law School (USA, 2018)
• Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore (2016)
• Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales (2017)
• Attorney and Counselor-at-law of the Supreme Court of the State of New York (2019)