Sharon Tay

Sharon Tay is a Senior Partner and Deputy Head of the Real Estate & Property Department at Lee & Lee in Singapore. Her practice focuses on Real Estate Law, encompassing all types of real estate and financing transactions.

Having been in the profession for almost 30 years, Sharon represents clients both large and small with diverse interests, including individuals, private and public listed companies, property developers, banks, societies and clan associations, charities, high-net-worth individuals, management corporations and governmental authorities.

She is especially well-versed in the collective sale and purchase of residential, industrial and commercial developments, sale of housing accommodation and commercial property by developers, structuring of private trust arrangements, management corporation work, and provision of legal due diligence for merger and acquisition transactions.

Her case highlights include acting for government agencies in real estate work, including the sale of land belonging to the Minister for Finance to the lessees of the development "Normanton Park", representing the Insolvency and Public Trustee's Office on matters relating to the collective sale of Henley Industrial Building, and acting for Morganite Pte Ltd in the purchase of "Farrer Court" at a record price of S$1.3388 billion.

She has acted for the owners in the collective sale of numerous developments including Leedon Heights (S$835 million), The Grangeford (S$625 million), UIC Building (S$600 million), Gillman Heights Condominium (S$548 million), Dunearn Gardens (S$468 million), Peace Centre / Peace Mansion (S$650 million) and Meyer Park (S$392.18 million), and for the purchasers in the collective purchase of Rio Casa (S$575 million), Serangoon Ville (S$499 million) and Chuan Park (S$890 million). She also acted in the government land sales of Bernam Street, Marina Gardens Crescent and De Souza Avenue.

She holds an LLB (2nd Class Upper) from the National University of Singapore and was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 1996, becoming a Partner in 2002 and Senior Partner thereafter, rising to Deputy Head in 2022. She is a member of the Law Society of Singapore and the Singapore Academy of Law, and sits on the Board of Directors as an Independent Director of a public listed entity. She has also served as a part-time tutor for the Conveyancing module of the Practical Law Course (now the Part B Course) for several years.