Kevin Tan
Kevin.Tan@kennedyslaw.com
+65 6436 4301
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Profile
Kevin is a Director of Legal Solutions LLC (Kennedys Singapore joint law venture partner) specialising in commercial litigation and international arbitration.
Kevin handles a broad range of commercial disputes in the Singapore courts and in international arbitrations across a variety of sectors, including commodities and energy. He acts in a variety of disputes, including joint venture, oil and gas, shipping, shareholder, investor against state, fraud, and employment matters with particular expertise in cross-border disputes.
Kevin graduated with First Class Honours from King’s College London, where he was awarded the Law School Prize for Jurisprudence and the Linklaters Prize for Administrative law. Prior to entering private practice, he served as a Justices’ Law Clerk, an Assistant Registrar of the Supreme Court, and a Deputy Senior State Counsel in the Attorney-General’s Chambers.
Kevin has been featured in the Singapore Business Review’s list of the most influential lawyers aged 40 and under. He is recommended for his disputes expertise in major legal publications. The Legal 500 Asia Pacific describes Kevin as a “standout litigator”, who is “confident, persuasive, and tenacious”, and “able to distil complex technical legal points clearly and succinctly”. Asialaw notes that Kevin is a “first rate lawyer, far above the rest” and “commercially savvy”.
Kevin is the vice-chair of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Singapore Arbitration Group, a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and is an arbitrator with institutions including the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre.
Kevin was also an adjunct tutor for Equity and Trusts and a teaching fellow for Company Law at the National University of Singapore. He teaches Civil Procedure at Part B of the Singapore Bar Course. He is also an accredited mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre and a specialist mediator with the Singapore International Mediation Centre.
Kevin is a “standout litigator” who is “confident, persuasive, and tenacious” and “able to distil complex technical legal points clearly and succinctly”.
Qualifications and admissions
Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Laws | King’s College London |2009
Admissions:
- Singapore Supreme Court | 2014
Industry:
- International Chamber of Commerce’s Singapore Arbitration Group | Vice-Chair
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- Singapore International Arbitration Centre
- Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre
Market recognition
Recommended Lawyer for Dispute Resolution in Singapore
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2024
Singapore Business Review’s List of Most Influential Lawyers aged 40 and under.
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific describes Kevin as a “standout litigator”, “a very strong, strategic, and eloquent lawyer”, “confident, persuasive and tenacious”, “someone you want in your corner”, “able to distil complex technical legal points clearly and succinctly", and someone who “combines practical know-how with a keen legal mind”.
Asialaw also notes that Kevin is a “first rate lawyer, far above the rest”, who is “extremely bright”, “commercially savvy”, “responsive”, “well prepared and researched”, “adept at handling complex legal issues while keeping clients’ interests at the forefront of any legal strategy”, “very eloquent in court” and able to “pick apart witnesses in cross examination”.
Work highlights
International Arbitration
- Acting for a State in an UNCITRAL Arbitration relating to a water concession agreement concerning claims in excess of US$1 billion.
- Acting for representatives of a leading private equity investment firm with commitments of over US$7 billion in an SIAC Arbitration.
- Acting for a Cayman-Islands based fund against a conglomerate in the Philippines in a SIAC Arbitration over toll road concessions in South East Asia concerning claims in excess of US$500 million.
- Advising a tobacco company on setting aside an arbitral award in relation to an arbitration under the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Rules of Arbitration (as revised in 2010) involving claims in excess of US$4 billion.
- Acting for Indonesian companies in an ICC arbitration arising from a joint venture in Indonesia to develop and operate a 2.6 million cubic meter oil storage complex.
Commercial Litigation
- Acting for a shareholder of one of the world’s largest integrated palm oil conglomerates with revenue over US$9 billion in a shareholder’s dispute.
- Acting for a company which is part of the Prysmian Group – the largest cable manufacturer in the world - in a claim against its former employee in the Singapore High Court for conspiracy to defraud it and successfully obtaining judgment.
- Successfully setting aside service out of jurisdiction in a high-value dispute relating to binary options trading which spanned multiple jurisdictions (Romania, Belize, Israel, Singapore and the UK) in the Singapore High Court.
- Acting for joint venture partners in a court dispute relating to the handover of premises by the former Turf City Operators. This case involved a novel point of law on “Wrotham Park” damages for which an Amicus Curiae (Professor Goh Yihan) was appointed and a five-judge coram was convened.
- Acting for a Malaysian company and a company registered in the Marshall Islands in an oil and gas dispute before the Singapore International Commercial Court.
Banking and finance
Construction and engineering