Modern disputes rarely fall neatly into one category. Commercial disagreements can escalate into investigations, while regulatory scrutiny may trigger parallel civil claims, resulting in reputational and personal risks.
Jerrie Tan LLC focuses on disputes where the stakes are high and the strategy must be precise. The firm advises founders, professionals, and cross-border businesses across a focused set of practice areas where commercial risk, financial exposure, and legal liability intersect.
We work closely with clients through the litigation stages of a dispute, providing
Shareholder Rights
Breach of Duties
Defamation
Cryptocurrency
Workplace Misconduct & Investigations
High-Stakes Financial & White Collar Crime
Investigations
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The firm’s expertise lies in being able to act for statutory boards prosecuting regulatory offences or acting as defence counsel for accused persons facing such offences. Familiarity with how the authorities treat such regulatory offences allows the firm to successfully negotiate favourable outcomes, especially during the plea bargaining stage.
Sexual Assault Offences
Seeking legal advice early provides an advantage of preservation of potentially helpful evidence. Depending on the facts of the case, there may also be utility in writing representations to try and resolve the matter before the case is heard in Court.
Regulatory Offences
Death Penalty Offences
The firm generally acts for accused persons facing the death penalty. Jerrie Tan is the youngest female criminal defence lawyer that had been appointed to the Lead Counsel panel under the Legal Assistance Scheme for Capital Offences (LASCO) administered by the Supreme Court. Acting under LASCO, providing rigorous defence in capital cases, reflecting a commitment to justice and giving back to society while maintaining the highest standards of advocacy.
Jerrie Tan LLC is a founder-led Singapore disputes boutique. We act where commercial litigation, employment exposure and criminal or regulatory scrutiny arrive together — for founders, directors, shareholders and businesses who would rather not brief three firms on the same set of facts.
Jerrie Tan LLC practises across six areas of dispute resolution in Singapore: commercial and civil litigation, employment disputes and investigations, personal and corporate insolvency, arbitration,
white collar defence and investigations, and criminal defence. The firm is built around the overlap
between them.
Each area below is a standalone practice. In most matters that reach us, more than one of them is already in play.
Shareholder and joint-venture disputes, contractual claims, director and officer liability, fraud and asset tracing, and cross-border claims before the Singapore courts. We act for founders, directors, shareholders and businesses — including matters with a China or Greater China nexus, handled in Mandarin where required.
Workplace investigations, senior executive exits, wrongful dismissal claims and restrictive covenants. We act for employers running an investigation into an employee, and for senior employees whose departure has gone wrong — including where the same facts also create a fraud or regulatory problem.
Statutory demands, bankruptcy applications and the Debt Repayment Scheme on the personal side; winding up, judicial management, schemes of arrangement and director liability on the corporate side. We act for creditors pursuing recovery and for debtors and directors facing personal exposure.
Institutional and ad hoc arbitration, including matters before the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. We advise on the choice between arbitration and the courts before proceedings begin, act in the reference itself, and handle interim relief, enforcement and challenges to awards.
Commercial Affairs Department and regulatory investigations, corporate internal investigations for listed companies and multinationals, and offences of dishonesty. This is the overlap the firm was built for — where a commercial dispute and a criminal investigation are the same problem in two forms.
Police investigations, charges in the State Courts and the High Court, bail, representations to the Attorney-General’s Chambers, mitigation and appeals. Jerrie sits on the Supreme Court’s Lead Counsel panel under the Legal
Assistance Scheme for Capital Offences and continues to act pro bono in capital matters.
“Most people treat a commercial dispute and a criminal investigation as two separate problems for two separate
lawyers. In practice they are usually the same problem
arriving in two forms.”
An employee who has been defrauding a company creates a civil claim, a police report, a regulatory exposure and a reputational problem on the same day. Where civil counsel and criminal counsel are not the same person, or at least in the same room, the strategy in one will often undermine the other.
Disputes work in Singapore is becoming more specialised, right down to individual tasks within a case, and clients are handed to a different lawyer at each stage. The problems themselves are moving the other way — crypto matters arrive with a civil claim and an authority’s interest attached; an employment exit arrives with a fraud investigation.
The person you meet at the first consultation is the person who runs your file. This is a founder-led practice, and matters are not passed down a chain.
We map every direction a matter can travel — civil liability, criminal or regulatory exposure, employment consequences, reputational risk — before advising on the merits of any single claim.
Cross-border matters with a China or Greater China nexus are handled in Mandarin, so that Singapore procedure is explained in the client's own language.
Jerrie Tan is the Founding Director of Jerrie Tan LLC, a Singapore disputes practice acting where commercial risk, regulatory scrutiny and personal liability intersect. She has been in practice since 2013 and spent almost a decade at an international law firm working alongside leading Senior Counsel, developing a commercial disputes and corporate investigations practice with a particular focus on Mandarin-speaking and China-based clients.
She has more than 40 reported judgments and has appeared across the State Courts, the Supreme Court and the Singapore International Commercial Court. She teaches Advocacy to law graduates preparing for call to the Singapore Bar and serves as an Adjunct Fellow at the NUS Centre for Pro Bono and Clinical Legal
Education.
Jerrie has been my go-to lawyer for legal needs ever since I met her around 8 years ago. The long-period time of trust was built over the years due to her logical & professional approach towards my legal needs. Not only is she professional and extremely dedicated to her job, her practical advice has helped me make the right decisions moving forward.
ALVIN LAW · FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR , AMGR CO . PTE LTD
Jerrie Tan LLC is a founder-led practice, and Jerrie runs the files. She is supported by Valerie Tay, an associate admitted from the SMU Yong Pung How School of Law. The firm keeps a deliberately small number of live matters, precisely so that senior attention is not spread thin. If that is not the right fit for the size or shape of your matter, we will say so at the first meeting.
Yes. Singapore is the firm’s primary jurisdiction, and a substantial part of the practice is cross-border. Matters have involved parties in China and Greater China, Malaysia, the region and further afield, and Jerrie has appeared in the Singapore International Commercial Court as well as in international arbitration. Mandarin-language conduct of a matter is available where that is what the client needs.
Consultations are by appointment and treated in confidence. At the first meeting you should expect a candid view of your realistic range of outcomes, what evidence would move you within that range, and what it is likely to cost to get there — not a prediction of the result. Fees depend on the nature and stage of the matter and are discussed openly before any work begins.
Consultations are by appointment and treated in confidence. Tell us what has happened and what you are worried about — you will get a straight view of your exposure and your options.
This page is general information only and does not constitute legal advice. It does not create a solicitor–client relationship. Outcomes depend on the specific facts of each matter. Case references are described only as far as they appear in publicly reported judgments. Please seek advice on your own circumstances.
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