Kerwin K. Tan

Kerwin Tan holds academic law qualifications in both Manila and New South Wales, Australia, and focuses mainly on aviation law, commercial transactions, and tax law. Kerwin graduated from a top ranked law school in Manila and has a Diploma in Law from The University of Sydney in NSW, Australia. Has been in the practice of law for more than 15 years and has worked at one of the biggest, top-tier law office in the Philippines.

As one of only a handful of aviation law practitioners in Manila, he advises, and has represented both purchasers and sellers, on aircraft financing, leasing and acquisitions, covering everything from small turboprops and helicopters to business jets and commercial aircrafts. He also acts as legal counsel to several air operators in the Philippines, 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. He also assisted the winning bidder to supply helicopters to both the Philippine Air Force and the Philippine National Police with a combined value of more than US$250M and the setting up of the Philippine MRO facility of the biggest aircraft OEM.

Aside from aviation, 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, a telecoms company for its nationwide upgrade worth US$700M. To date, the total transaction value he has assisted with surpasses US$10B.

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.