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Drew & Napier LLC Offices
10 COLLYER QUAY
#10-01 OCEAN FINANCIAL CENTRE
SINGAPORE 049315
Singapore
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Mr Sean Tan
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)
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition: local firms
- Dispute resolution: local firms
- Intellectual property: Local firms
- Labour and employment: local firms
- Private wealth and family law – local firms
- Projects and energy: local firms
- Restructuring and insolvency: local firms
- Tax: local firms
- TMT: local firms
- White-collar crime - Local firms
Firm Rankings
- Construction: Local firms
- Data protection and cyber security
- International arbitration
- Investment funds: local firms
- Real estate: local firms
- Banking and finance: local firms
- Capital markets: equity and debt: local firms
- Corporate and M&A: local firms
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms