Daniel Tay

Daniel has been in practice from 2007 to date across a broad range of issues in commercial law and specialises in the engineering, building and construction, real estate and tenancy, hospitality, commercial and residential design and build sectors, advising and representing clients on a broad range of commercial legal issues from contract agreements to commercial disputes, defects and damage, insolvency, regulatory offences, insurance, professional indemnity, mediation, adjudication under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act, arbitration and Court litigation.

His clients span the full range of project parties to a construction contract from project owners and residential home owners, developers, main-contractors and the full span of downstream sub-contractors across numerous BCA licensing grades and classes, from the “man on the street” sub-contractors to A1 contractors; consultants from architects; engineers to quantity surveyors and designers; from general builders to the numerous construction trade specialisations; and fitting out works for commercial, industrial, boutique, hospitality and F&B, and from ground up construction to addition and alteration works and renovation projects.

Daniel provides contract advice and represents clients on building and construction contracts from the FIDIC form to the Public Sector Standard Conditions of Contract (PSSCOC), the Real Estate Developers’ Association of Singapore (REDAS) Conditions of Contract, Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) Conditions of Contract to numerous other construction and supply contracts.

Daniel is a lecturer for the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) Academy teaching Construction Contract Administration and Collaborative Contracting for its Specialist Diploma in Integrated Project Management course, Honorary Legal Advisor to the Singapore Institute of Architects, author of the LexisNexis Singapore Annotated Statutes for the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act and Honorary Legal Advisor for the Tampines Industrial Manufacturers Association. He is a regular speaker on building and construction law, frequently cited on legal issues in the built environment for news media and was featured on MoneyFM for OBike issues.

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