Darius Tay

• Corporate insolvency

• Corporate restructuring

• Corporate finance

• Corporate and commercial litigation

One of the founders of BlackOak, Darius’ work focuses on special situations, including both contentious and non-contentious aspects of corporate restructuring and insolvency (“CRI”), banking and finance as well as mergers and acquisitions for special situations. A key component of Darius’ practice is advising various fund managers on both compliance and regulatory matters as well as issues arising from their investments and portfolio companies and working with various debtor companies.

As a separate component of Darius’ practice, he works closely with various start-ups, especially those in the logistics field, advising them with all aspects of their business including regulatory and business contracts as well as assisting them with corporate governance and fund raising.

Darius was appointed to the Singapore Supreme Court’s Young Amicus Curiae Scheme in 2014. He acted as amicus curiae in the only reported Singapore judgment on the issue of testamentary capacity regarding the disposal of one’s Central Provident Fund (Singapore’s national retirement savings plan) monies and was also part of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore’s working committee on their amicus brief in Kao Chai Chau Linda v Fong Wai Lyn Carolyn and Others [2016] 1 SLR 21, a landmark Singapore decision on insolvency practitioners’ remuneration.

- Member, Insolvency Practice Committee of the Law Society of Singapore

- Member, Singapore Academy of Law

- Supreme Court Insolvency and Restructuring Court Users’ Committee (IRCUC)

- Member, NextGen Committee, Turnaround Management Association (South East Asia)

- Member of the International Insolvency Institute (III) and the III’s NextGen Leadership Program

- Co-chairman in Organising Committee for the III’s 24th Annual Conference to be held in 2024 (Singapore)

- Member of the Insolvency Practitioner’s Association of Singapore (IPAS) and Founding Executive Committee -

- Member and the Chairperson of IPAS – Young Insolvency Practitioner Committee (YIPC), 2019 – 2023.

- Young Amicus Curiae, 2014-2015