Kendall Tan Email and Phone Number

• Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore | Bar of Brunei Darussalam • Solicitor, England & Wales (Practising)• Senior Accredited Specialist (Maritime and Shipping), Singapore Academy of Law• Adjunct Professor (Shipping & Admiralty), Singapore Management University• Head, Shipping & International Trade, Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP• Practice Lead, Regional Shipping Sector Group, Rajah & Tann Asia• Head, Brunei Business Unit, Rajah & Tann Asia• Board Member, Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration • Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb)Clients seek out Kendall to advise on disputes both locally, and across borders. He has dual admission as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Courts of Singapore and Brunei Darussalam. Kendall is an actively practising English Solicitor and Counsel. A “lawyer’s lawyer”, he garners a steady stream of instructions from international law firms and in-house counsel teams.Kendall is amongst the inaugural group of select Senior Accredited Specialists in Maritime and Shipping Law named by the Singapore Academy of Law w.e.f. 7 January 2019.Kendall features in the rankings by successive editions of Chambers Global, Legal 500 and other esteemed journals, in the shipping disputes space, notably for “amazing tenacity and stamina in prying apart the complexities in any matter”. He is lauded by clients for his “astute mind”, and ability to process “a massive amount of data across different types of evidence to still pull linkages together and to even pinpoint which ones may be fraudulent.” Kendall is feted in the peer review publications of Best Lawyers in Singapore as well as Euromoney’s Asialaw Leading Lawyers, in the practice area of Shipping, Maritime & Aviation Law, and for being “exceptionally knowledgeable in both dry and wet matters” and “very commercially minded and responsive”. He finds time for academia as a university adjunct professor. He has given expert evidence on maritime law which found endorsement both in decisions by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.The Rajah & Tann Asia offices enable marshalling of legal expertise and industry insight in the fields of maritime and trade from our diverse talent pool of specialist lawyers, across multiple jurisdictions, who collaborate closely under our Regional Shipping Sector Group, of which Kendall is the Practice Lead.In his downtime, Kendall trains avidly in the combat sport of Brazilian Jiujitsu, for which he holds the rank of Brown Belt.