SMU alumni Cephas Yee, Joshua Tan and Sean Lee started Delta Law Corporation in June 2025; the boutique snagged the top spot in the insolvency and restructuring law field in The Straits Times/Statista Singapore’s Best Law Firms 2027 survey, upstaging the industry’s “Big Five” and other firms by placing a premium on agility, focus and deep specialisation. Sean said they chose to take a more modern approach of empowering their lawyers with autonomy and agency to develop themselves in a way that works for them, and has found that this has kept morale strong. He also shared that Delta’s pragmatic philosophy extends to how it handles emerging legal tech. In an era where law firms adopt generative artificial intelligence, Delta’s approach is deliberate and unhurried. It views AI strictly as an enabler rather than a crutch – a tool to accelerate research and draft preparation, never a substitute for legal analysis.