Darius Tay

One of the founders of BlackOak, Darius’ work focuses on special situations, including both contentious and non-contentious aspects of corporate restructuring and insolvency (“CRI”), banking and finance as well as mergers and acquisitions for special situations. A key component of Darius’ practice is advising various fund managers on both their investments and regulatory issues arising from their funds.

As a separate component of Darius’ practice, he works closely with various start-ups, especially those in the logistics field, and has worked with a number of start-ups which counts amongst the largest venture capitalist funds as their investors.

Darius acted as amicus curiae in the only reported Singapore judgment on the issue of testamentary capacity regarding the disposal of one’s Central Provident Fund (Singapore’s national retirement savings plan) monies and was also part of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore’s working committee on their amicus brief in Kao Chai Chau Linda v Fong Wai Lyn Carolyn and Others [2016] 1 SLR 21, a landmark Singapore decision on insolvency practitioners’ remuneration.

Darius is a recognised rising star of the local CRI scene and he has been consistently ranked in leading publications such as Asia Law, Chambers Asia Pacific, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Best Lawyers and IFLR 1000.

• Rising Star, Leading Lawyer (Restructuring and Insolvency) - IFLR1000 2020
• Rising Star (Restructuring and Insolvency) 2021 - Asialaw Profiles
• Band 4 Ranked Lawyer (Restructuring / Insolvency) - Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific Guide 2021
• Next Generation Partner (Restructuring & Insolvency) - The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021
• Best Lawyers – Insolvency and Reorganisation Laws (Singapore) 2021
• Future Star (Insolvency) - Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2021

Singapore

LL.B (Magna Cum Laude), SMU
B.C.L (Oxon)