Daniel Tay

Daniel Tay is a Director of BR Law Corporation. He has been in practice from 2007 to date across a broad range of issues in commercial law and specialises in the energy, engineering, building and construction, real estate and tenancy, hospitality, commercial and residential design and build sectors, advising on a broad range of commercial legal issues in arbitration and litigation to contract advice, commercial disputes, defects and damage, insolvency, regulatory offences, insurance, professional indemnity, mediation and construction adjudication.

Daniel teaches construction law and construction contract administration to industry professionals as a lecturer for the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) Academy and the Singapore University of Social Sciences. He is Honorary Legal Advisor to the Singapore Institute of Architects, author of the LexisNexis Singapore Annotated Statutes for the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act, Honorary Legal Advisor for the Tampines Industrial Manufacturers Association, a regular speaker on construction law for industry associations and interviewed on MoneyFM for OBike issues.

Daniel comments on legal issues for the built environment on news media including on MoneyFM, Channel 8, Lianhe Zaobao and ChannelNewsAsia for the 2025 Tanjong Katong sinkhole incident.

His recent successful claim for E-Tech Building Services Pte Ltd was featured on the Straits Times (31 January 2026) “Foreign worker charity ordered by High Court to pay contractor over $1 million in renovation costs”.

He is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, appointed to the Inquiry Panel of the Law Society, appointed to the Singapore Institute of Legal Education CPD Compliance Committee and was selected in 2018 as Singapore Business Review’s 20 Most Influential Lawyers Under 40.

Authorships 

• Daniel Tay, LexisNexis Singapore Annotated Statutes for the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act