SCL Malaysia’s Annual Construction Law Review – Full Video

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Dato’ Nitin Nadkarni
Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill

Nitin is the Head of the Firm’s International Arbitration Practice and the Tax, SST & Customs Practice. Nitin’s main area of practice is in international arbitration, focusing on oil & gas, energy, construction and engineering, and infrastructure projects. Nitin has more than 30 years’ experience representing major governmental organisations, multinational corporations, national and international contractors, sub-contractors, financial institutions and high-profile individuals in arbitration, litigation, income tax and customs disputes. Nitin has acted as counsel or sat as arbitrator in disputes arising from projects in or arbitrations seated in Malaysia, Singapore, Korea, London, Switzerland, Vietnam, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Paris and Algeria under ad hoc and institutional rules such as AIAC, ICC, SIAC, and LCIA rules. He has been consistently ranked by Chambers & Partners as a leading lawyer (Band 1 from 2013-2020) who is very polished and sought-after, and by Asia Pacific Legal 500 as a leading dispute resolution, and real estate and construction lawyer who is very highly regarded for construction disputes. Most recently, Nitin has been recognized as an Elite Practitioner by Asialaw 2020.

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Rajendra Navaratnam
Azman Davidson & Co

Rajendra Navaratnam is a lawyer who obtained his first degree in Electrical Engineering and started his career as an Engineer in the Power industry. He has worked in wide and various capacities in the then National Electricity Board of Malaysia, ranging from construction and maintenance of high voltage transmission lines and substations, test and instrument functions, culminating in managing international procurement contracts, for about 10 years before he retrained in law and started his legal career with Azman Davidson and Co in 1988 which has a major construction/arbitration practice. He became a Partner in 1993.

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Grace Chaw
Grace Chaw & Co

Grace Chaw read law at Monash University, Australia. She is dual-qualified to practice in New South Wales, Australia and in Malaysia. She founded Grace Chaw & Co. in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah with an exclusive practice in dispute resolution and litigation. A number of appellate decisions reported in Malayan Law Journal (MLJ) and Current Law Journal (CLJ) which she was the lead counsel is a recognition of her commitment to litigation and advocacy practice. Grace is professionally trained by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Singapore Branch) and is conferred the Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration by Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) (FCIArb). She is equipped to sit as arbitrator and to represent parties in both international and domestic arbitration. She is appointed by Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC) as an Adjudicator to hear statutory adjudication. Grace is an accredited mediator with Singapore International Mediation Institute (SIMI). Equally important, she is appointed by the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Malaysia as a Commissioner for Oaths in Malaysia.

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James Monteiro
James Monteiro

James is the principal partner of Messrs James Monterio and come October 2020, will have been in practice for 24 years as an Advocate & Solicitor. James specializes in the areas of Energy and Construction & Engineering, including project advisory, risk management and dispute resolution.

James has acted for a variety of clients both foreign and local, large multi-nationals, PLCs and GLCs.

• Founding Member and Immediate Past-President of the Society of Construction Law Malaysia
• Member of the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators
• Member of the Malaysian Bar Council Sub-Committee on Construction Law
• Past-President of the University of Hertfordshire Alumni Association of Malaysia

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Serene Hiew
Harold & Lam Partnership

Serene graduated from Oxford Brookes University in 2009 with an LL.B (Bachelor of Laws) and was called to the Bar of England and Wales by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in 2010. She was thereafter called to the Malaysian Bar as an Advocate & Solicitor in the High Court of Malaya in 2011. Serene has been practicing in the areas of construction, infrastructure and engineering since being called to the Bar. Her involvement in the dispute resolution of construction, infrastructure and engineering is primarily focused in the alternative dispute resolution i.e. adjudication and arbitration. While litigation is her primary area of practice, Serene has also undertakes advisory and construction project management work. Since the coming into effect of the Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012 (CIPAA) in April 2014, Serene has been counsel or client representative on more than 80 CIPAA Adjudication cases and has also recently been empanelled as an Adjudicator in the KLRCA Panel of Adjudicators. She is currently the Honorary Secretary of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Malaysia and a committee member of the Malaysian Society of Construction Law.
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Shannon Rajan
SKRINE

Shannon is a disputes partner in the Construction and Engineering practice and co-heads the Occupational, Safety and Health practice. He advises clients on all aspects of construction and engineering projects, from procurement to contract administration, and the avoidance and resolution of disputes. He has advised developers, contractors, and consultants on various large-scale projects including power plants, oil and gas installations, metals and mining facilities, process plants, transport infrastructure and commercial developments. Shannon has experience in the entire range of dispute resolution processes including litigation, arbitration, adjudication, mediation and bespoke processes. He is an accredited arbitrator, adjudicator and mediator who sits on the panel of the AIAC (formerly KLRCA) and the Malaysian and Singaporean Mediation Centres.  He has acted as a sole arbitrator and as counsel under UNCITRAL, SIAC, AIAC rules and in ad-hoc cases. He is also part of the Aviation practice focusing on issues arising in relation to airport projects, maintenance and operations, and aviation regulations and liabilities.  He is also principally involved in the aviation disputes between Malaysia Airports and AirAsia Group. He has authored chapters, annotated legislations and in all his key practice areas for all leading publications such as Halsbury’s Laws of Malaysia, Bullen & Leake (Forms and Precedents) and LexisNexis Annotated Statutes of Malaysia.