Jo Tay

Jo Tay is a Partner specialising in cross-border restructuring and insolvency, with extensive experience advising financial institutions, private funds, and corporate clients on high-value debt restructuring, schemes of arrangement, judicial management, and cross-border insolvency matters. He also advises on equity and trusts, as well as structured finance, spanning contentious, transactional and advisory spheres. He has acted as restructuring counsel to a Singapore-listed REIT with US commercial property, advised Hong Kong liquidators in a cross-border crypto-related group insolvency, and acted for a syndicate of lenders in one of the world's largest collapses of an oil trading and shipping firm. He also acted as Singapore counsel to the Chapter 11 Trustee and Plan Administrator in the US Chapter 11 Proceedings of a global conglomerate.

He holds an LL.M. (First Class) from the University of Cambridge with a specialisation in commercial law, where he was awarded the Foundation Scholarship by Queens' College, Cambridge for his excellent performance, and a double degree in Law (LL.B.) and Business Management (BBM, Finance) from Singapore Management University, where he received the Kwa Geok Choo Top Law Student Award. He is a Fellow of INSOL International and has taken on leadership roles in the International Insolvency Institute's NextGen Leadership Programme, IWIRC (Singapore Network), and the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore's Young Insolvency Practitioners' Committee. He is also a member of the Committee to Enhance Singapore's Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Regime (2025). He is admitted to the Singapore Bar and as a Solicitor of England and Wales.