Dan Tan Law is a globally ranked law firm focused on international arbitration, cross-border litigation and business issues, and the enforcement of judgments and arbitration awards. We combine deep experience, personal attention, and commercially focused advice to achieve our clients’ business objectives.
Our clients come from all over the world and from all industry sectors. We partner with businesses to navigate commercial disputes and legal challenges wherever in the world they arise.
The core of our practice—from the founding of the firm in 2011, we have been ranked among the top arbitration practices globally. We are trusted with arbitration matters seated all over the world under major institutional rules, ranging from simple contractual disputes to complex technical disputes where billions are at stake.
As international disputes lawyers, we help clients enforce and defend their rights by coordinating a global strategy involving litigation in multiple jurisdictions, and acting as lead counsel in courts in the United States and Singapore.
These include court actions in the United States and Singapore seeking provisional relief or discovery in support of arbitration proceedings and foreign court proceedings.
We have extensive experience enforcing and resisting enforcement of arbitration awards and foreign court judgments, including high-profile enforcement proceedings against the Republic of Egypt, and the Republic of Poland.
We frequently act for and against award and judgment debtors in the United States and Singapore courts.
Defended Three Arrows Capital, a cryptocurrency hedge fund, in emergency and substantive arbitration proceedings against claims exceeding US$2.4 billion. (AAA Arbitration, New York seat, New York law.)
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Won an ICSID arbitration arising out of a land reclamation project involving the construction of an external seawall, roads, and related infrastructure to support Corniche Road — a critical transportation artery on the Abu Dhabi waterfront. US$65 million in dispute.
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Defended a state-owned construction company in arbitration proceedings involving disputes exceeding US$200 million, relating to the construction of a major plant facility in a South East Asian country. (SIAC Arbitration, South East Asian seat)
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Counsel in three SIAC arbitrations (two consolidated) for claimant against almost 30 respondent entities involving dispute over shareholder agreement and corporate takeover. (SIAC Arbitration, Singapore seat, Singapore law.)
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Obtaining worldwide asset freeze (Mareva injunction) in Singapore courts, coordinating other injunctions in other jurisdictions, and enforcing against assets in the United States.
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Represented three respondents in two SIAC arbitration proceedings brought by a global entertainment and lifestyle company, involving the sale of an Asia-wide luxury entertainment chain and related intellectual property claims, with amounts in dispute of approximately S$100 million. Also acted as counsel in concurrent court proceedings in Singapore.
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Successfully acted as Counsel in a SIAC-administered UNCITRAL arbitration against an Asian state-owned oil and gas company arising out of a pipeline dispute. Amount in dispute exceeded US$1 billion.
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Counsel for an electric grid concession company against a state-owned electricity company and regulator, with claims exceeding US$350 million and counterclaims exceeding US$400 million. (UNCITRAL Arbitration, London seat, English law.)
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Represented Canadian and New York trust defending $150m claim in New York State Court Commercial Division. Successfully resisted associated attachment proceedings and obtained extraordinary denial of stay pending appeal of decision.
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Successfully enforced US$115m investor-state arbitration award in Washington D.C. against the Arab Republic of Egypt.
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Represented investors in enforcement proceedings in the United States against the Republic of Poland.
View caseOur boutique platform pairs deep expertise and experience with personalized attention. Our team draws on decades of experience forged at leading international law firms in New York, London, and Paris, strategically pursuing and vigorously defending high-stakes international disputes.
Ranked as among the top 100 arbitration practices in the world every year since the firm’s inception in 2011
A name to know
Impressive attention to detail and strategy
Innovative ways of presenting complex ideas to a multilingual and multi-jurisdictional tribunal.
Clients love him.
Ranked as leading arbitration counsel
Ranked as leading arbitrator
A star in the international arbitration world.
Dan is a very commercially savvy person who understands what needs to be done to get to the crux of the issue. He is astute in the cultural sensitivities and understands the business perspective.
Ranked in band 1 for enforcement of arbitration awards
Clients and peers overwhelmingly attest to his expertise as ‘a very skilled advocate’ who ‘comes up with practical, commercial advice that clients find extremely useful’ and which ‘always hits the target.
Has excellent skills to present complex facts in an easy way to the tribunal, and is eloquent and persuasive.
Ranked as leading arbitration lawyer
Legal 500 USA calls him an “outstanding lawyer.
Tremendous expertise in pursuing arbitrations in Asia.
Always two steps ahead of the other side.
A phenomenal lawyer
[A]n extraordinary legal talent and is extremely creative in the legal theories he uses
combine[s] a strategic approach with persuasive advocacy.
Daniel demonstrates a deep understanding of not just the law but also international commercial practices
