Joyce A. Tan

Joyce A. Tan & Partners was founded in 1998 with a strong international outlook and has been active in cross-border transactions since inception, covering the range of legal services typically required by businesses from the establishment to the operation and conduct of business in Singapore.

We are a business-centric commercial law practice that provides the full range of corporate commercial legal services with particular strengths in intellectual property, technology, telecommunications, media and privacy. We serve a broad range of industries on the international stage and have pioneered many forms of legal transactions on the cutting edge of significant trends and developments in business in Singapore.

Our industry-focused approach enables us to combine in-depth industry experience with sophisticated legal skills to provide our clients with a unique and informed perspective. The practice has earned a solid reputation for thorough and insightful legal representation.

Our reputation is based as much on cross-border as it is on domestic work. Our clientele ranges from global MNCs (including “Big Tech” corporations) who seek us out, to nationally prominent corporations that work with us on key strategic projects, to established start up technology clients. Though we do have SME clients, they are not a large part of the clientele we serve, and our client mix is similar to that of the largest firms in Singapore.

A key point of differentiation from our competitors in the largest firms in Singapore is the holistic and integrated manner with which we practise. We can seamlessly provide solutions that handle multiple needs, such as developing corporate structures that best leverage technology delivery whilst managing regulatory risk, and bolstering intellectual property asset value, and optimising operational requirements. Whilst some of our competitors will “parachute” an “expert” to look at small segment of a matter, our teams are deeply integrated in areas of expertise, with no “siloes” or segmented practice departments, and clients will receive integrated multi-faceted expertise from the inception of any matter.

The directors in the firm have been consistently profiled and act in thought leadership projects in emerging legal issues and sectors.