Daniel Tan

Practice Areas

- Restructuring & Insolvency

- Fraud & Asset Recovery

- Corporate & Commercial Litigation

Career

Daniel is a Director and the Head of the firm’s Restructuring & Insolvency practice group.

Daniel’s main areas of practice are restructuring and insolvency, often acting in both formal court supervised and out of court restructurings. He regularly advises and represents corporate debtors, institutional creditors and turnaround professionals in special situations. His practice also encompasses corporate disputes and fraud, asset recovery, shareholder disputes and investigations.

He has earned widespread recognition across the major legal directories, including Who’s Who Legal, Chambers Asia-Pacific, The Legal 500, IFLR1000, and Asialaw. Most recently, he was recognised as “Litigation Star” for Restructuring & Insolvency in the Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2025 Guide. Daniel was recognized as a “Next Generation Partner” for Restructuring and Insolvency (2022-2024) and Dispute Resolution (2024) in The Legal 500, and as a “Rising Star Partner” in IFLR1000 (2023). Clients have praised him as a “fantastic operator,” and a Chambers Asia-Pacific (2023) client commented, “His experience puts him in a place to truly understand the demands and constraints of restructuring work.”

After graduating from the University of Sydney, Daniel spent time in the Restructuring and Insolvency practices of two leading law firms in Singapore. Daniel also holds a Bachelor of Arts from Pomona College, California and previously worked as a consultant in the Los Angeles and Singapore offices of a multinational engineering and environmental consultancy company.

Languages Spoken

English and Mandarin

Education