Tan Chong Huat is the Senior Partner and one of the founding members of RHTLaw Taylor Wessing. Besides being Managing Partner of the Firm, he also heads the Firm's Banking and Finance Practice, and Capital Markets Practice. He also serves as a member of the International Management Board of Taylor Wessing.
His experience and track record, set out below, as a leading finance and corporate lawyer, successful entrepreneur and investor, reputable corporate leader and public service champion, and dedicated law professor coupled with his strong practical and academic grounding throughout his career have made Chong Huat the trusted go-to expert for complex financing (corporate finance and project finance) transactions, deals structuring, funding and matching, corporate governance and board matters, and reputational management matters for corporate leaders and major corporates in the region and internationally.
Chong Huat has extensive experience in corporate, banking and project finance law in Singapore and the region, and acted in numerous significant corporate transactions in the areas of IPOs, RTOs, MBOs, restructuring, M&As, and financing of major real estate and infrastructure. He has been named a leading practitioner in many reputable professional publications, with a recent recognition by IFLR1000 as a "Leading Lawyer" and by Legal 500 Asia Pacific as a “Leading Individual” for Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions.
Chong Huat is a Fellow with the Singapore Institute of Directors and sits on the boards as an independent director of Ascendas Hospitality Fund Management Pte Ltd, Ascendas Hospitality Trust Management Pte Ltd, SIIC Environment Holdings Ltd and as a non-executive chairman of Ramba Energy Limited, and P99 Holdings Ltd. He also co-founded RHT group of companies which is the leading professional services group in Asia. Over the years he has successfully invested in start-ups, SMEs and listed companies.
Chong Huat is active in public service and charity work. He is currently a council member of the Football Association of Singapore and the Singapore Road Safety Council, and is a member of the International Affairs Committee of Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry. He also sits as a Lay Person on the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants' Investigation and Disciplinary Panel. Chong Huat is the chairman of the RHT Rajan Menon Foundation. He has also established a National University of Singapore Grant in favour of the Law Faculty under the name of his deceased father. The Financial Planning Association of Singapore has conferred on Chong Huat an honorary membership. He was until recently a council member of the Corporate Governance Council set up by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and a board member of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Singapore.
Despite his active practice, management duties and public service, Chong Huat continues to serve as an adjunct faculty and lecture on a regular basis. He was Associate Professor at the Law Faculty, National University of Singapore (AY 2007- 2013), Business School, National University of Singapore (AY 2008/2009) and Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University (AY 2008-2012). Besides authoring two leading literature on PRC Investment laws, he has co-authored a title on Corporate Governance of Listed Companies in Singapore and is a co-editor for a new title on Corporate Governance: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Chong Huat also contributes articles and opinion pieces to leading journals and newspapers regularly.
