Kerwin Tan

Biography

Kerwin is admitted as a lawyer in both the Philippines and Australia (NSW) and studied law in top-ranked legal institutions in both the Philippines and Australia. He has been in the practice of law for almost 20 years and also worked and trained at one of the biggest law offices in the Philippines, handling all types of complex commercial transactions and related tax practice. Currently, he manages Tan Hassani and Counsels Law Offices with his partners and special counsels. He mainly focuses on commercial transactions, project finance, aviation law, and tax law. His experience includes handling transactions in aviation, outsourcing and offshoring to the Philippines, banking, construction, energy, information technology, manufacturing, real estate, and renewable energy. Among the notable projects he has assisted include a national railway government bid project worth US$2.8B, a renewal energy joint venture worth US$8.75B, supply of combat helicopters to the Philippine Government (National Police and Air Force) worth US$240M, aircraft financing for business jets and other aircraft acquisitions of more than US$150M, and project finance into start-up companies, among others. To date, the total transaction value he has assisted with surpasses US$10 billion. As one of the handful of aviation law practitioners, he also acts as legal counsel to several licensed air operators and flying schools in the country, appears before the civil aviation authority, and has assisted with the application to operate scheduled and non-scheduled air transport services. He is also Philippine counsel to the one of the biggest aircraft OEM in the world. On a personal capacity as pro bono work, he currently sits invited and elected as a member of the National Advisory Council, Forensics Group (National Headquarters) of the Philippine National Police.