Tan Yi Fan

Tan Yi Fan is an Associate Director in the Dispute Resolution practice at Drew & Napier, specializing in Dispute Resolution. He has an active practice in commercial litigation and international arbitration, with a focus on managing multi‑lingual cross‑border proceedings involving stakeholders across key Asian jurisdictions, particularly in the Greater China Region.

Yi Fan has represented and advised clients in a wide range of commercial disputes, including infrastructure and energy projects, supply and service agreements, banking and finance, and shareholder disputes. Notable matters include acting in a dispute arising from the construction of a major coal‑fired power plant project in India, with claims and counterclaims exceeding US$579 million, where the client was awarded US$146 million in damages; representing one of Japan's largest global trading and investment companies in a shareholder dispute involving one of India's leading home shopping companies; successfully defending Shanghai Electric Group in a challenge preserving a US$146 million SIAC award in Reliance Infrastructure Limited v Shanghai Electric Group Co Ltd [2024] SGHC(I) 3, with the appeal also resisted in [2024] SGCA(I) 10; and successfully overturning a High Court decision in Ma Binxiang v Hainan Hui Bang Construction Investment Group Ltd [2022] SGHC(A) 37. He also advises on non‑contentious advisory work and pre‑dispute risk management in emerging sectors such as electric and autonomous vehicles, renewables, and technology infrastructure.

Yi Fan holds an LL.B. (Hons) from the National University of Singapore (2018) and was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 2019.