Christopher Tan is a partner in Singapore with more than two decades of practice experience. His areas of practice include corporate and commercial (with a focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructurings) as well as employment law (covering both Singapore and South East Asia).
Christopher has represented private equity firms, multinational corporations, and private companies on outbound and inbound investments in the region using both equity as well as hybrid structures, and has handled transactions covering Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, China, as well as Mongolia, among others. He also acts on the management side on a full range of employment related matters covering Singapore and South East Asia.
He is an active member of the firm's Corporate (M&A) practice, as well as the Employment practice in Singapore and South East Asia. He has most recently been ranked (in Band 2) for Employment (International) by Chambers and Partners (2022 Edition), and has also been listed as a recommended lawyer for Labour & Employment in every edition of Legal 500 Asia Pacific since 2017. In addition, he is also recognized by Legal 500 Asia Pacific as one of only three Leading Individuals in Singapore in the field of Employment (International).
Over the years, Christopher and his team have received numerous commendations and commentaries from Chambers and Partners as well as Legal 500 Asia Pacific, including the following:
- “Christopher Tan is sought after by clients in the media, entertainment, technology, and engineering sectors to assist with a wide variety of employment-related aspects”
- “particularly good and quite unique in his qualities”
- “has extensive and invaluable experience practising both international and Singapore employment law in a global firm context, and he also has a strong disputes and transactional background which is invariably useful”
- "Christopher is responsive, agile, approachable, commercial-minded and solid with Singapore employment law"
- "[Christopher] is efficient at providing quick and practical advice"
- "senior and very well regarded"
- "very responsive and a pleasure to work with"
- "They have fast turnaround time and are commercial”
- “The team combines local employment knowledge with notable cross-border capabilities, stemming from the firm's regional network of offices', and are particularly adept at assisting clients in the TMT sector”.
- “Interviewees value the team's business acumen and the quality of its client service, with one saying: "They provided outstanding customer service and demonstrated good commercial awareness by proposing practical solutions while protecting our business interests"”
