The 36 Group

36 Stone

Dan Tan is the principal of Dan Tan Law, a boutique law firm based in New York, San Francisco, and Singapore, that has been repeatedly ranked amongst the top 100 of all arbitration practices in the world (Global Arbitration Review 100, 2012 to 2025). Benchmark Litigation recommends the firm for litigation in California, for International Arbitration nationally in the United States, and named it the Euromoney Inaugural “International Arbitration Firm of the Year (US West)”. Dan is an associate member of 36 Group (formerly Stone Chambers), a commercial barristers chambers in London.

Dan has over two decades of international arbitration and litigation experience at some of the largest international law firms. He previously practiced with Latham & Watkins and O’Melveny & Myers in New York representing clients in high-value international disputes.

Dan’s practice focuses on international litigation and arbitration. He has acted in litigation matters in courts all over the world, and in arbitrations under various institutional rules (including ICC, LCIA, AAA, Swiss Rules, BANI, SIAC) seated in major arbitration venues (New York, California, London, Paris, Geneva, Zurich, Indonesia, Brazil, and Singapore). These cases involve disputes stemming from joint venture and partnership agreements, distributor and supply agreements, IP agreements, license agreements, share purchase and option agreements, construction and oil & gas contracts.  He has sat as arbitrator (chair, sole, party-appointed, and emergency arbitrator) in more than 50 international arbitrations. Chambers commends his “experience sitting as arbitrator in complex disputes”.

Chinese (Mandarin)

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

New York State Bar

California State Bar

District of Columbia State Bar

Law Society of Singapore

Lecturer on Law. Harvard Law School - (International Commercial Arbitration) (2008-present)

Lecturer in Law Stanford Law School - (International Investment Law) (2013-2015) (International Arbitration) (2017-present)

LL.M., Harvard Law School

B.C.L., Oxford University

LL.B., National University of Singapore