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Co-Head of ESG Practice and Partner of Appropriate Dispute Resolution Practice, Anil is an accredited Mediator, Arbitrator, Adjudicator, and Dispute Board, Restorative Justice and ODR practitioner. 

Anil, a Conflict Avoidance, Dispute Resolution, Restorative Justice and Online Dispute Resolution practitioner, is

  • an accredited Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre, Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), Vietnam International Commercial Mediation Centre and Singapore Family Justice Court
  • trained as Investor State Mediator (by Centre of Effective Dispute Resolution with the International Centre of Settlement of Investment Disputes & recognised by the International Mediation Institute);
  • an Adjudicator with the Asia International Arbitration Centre
  • an Arbitrator, Fellows of the Chartered, Singapore and Philippines Institutes of Arbitrators and trained as an International Investment Treaty Arbitrator at AIAC
  • trained as a Restorative Justice practitioner at the International Institute of Restorative Practice and is being trained in Global Peacebuilder Certificate, multicultural dispute resolution (mediation) with the Mediators Beyond Borders International
  • trained in Emotional Intelligence (EQ) coaching

and is the Country Representative (Singapore) for the ADR ODR International and Dispute Resolution Board Foundation.

Anil was in April 2023 appointed by the Law Society of Singapore as the Chairperson for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Working Group. He has since 2014 and continues to be the Honorary Legal Advisor to the Singapore Institute of Architects, Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers and Society of Interior Designers Singapore.

Anil qualified and is admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of Singapore (1995); a Solicitor of England and Wales (2009); qualified as Barrister at Law (Middle Temple) England & Wales (1993); and holds a Master of Science in Construction Law & Arbitration, Kings College London & National University of Singapore (2006).

With a career spanning international legal practice with the arbitration with international law firm Lovells Lee & Lee (2008 – 9) and in house as General Counsel and Director of Contract Advisory and Dispute Management division of Davis Langdon & Seah – Arcadis Group (2006 – 8), Anil is well versed in appropriate arbitration. Before graduating with an LLB Hon from the University of Buckingham (UK – 1992), Anil was an Infantry Officer for five years with the Singapore Armed Forces (1983 – 8).

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Practice Areas

  • Appropriate Dispute Resolution – Adjudication, Litigation (Civil, Commercial and Criminal), Mediation, and Online Dispute Resolution)
  • Arbitration - International & Domestic
  • Building Construction, Infrastructure & Engineering
  • Contract Advisory - including Environmental, Social Governance
  • Factoring, Hire Purchasing & Leasing
  • Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution (including Bankruptcy, Liquidation and Winding Up)
  • Insurance
  • Matrimonial, Custody & Asset Dispute Resolution
  • Personal Injury & Accidents
  • Probate & Estate Planning
  • Real Estate & Management Corporation Strata Title
  • Technology including Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Industry Groups

  • Building, Construction & Projects
  • Private Wealth
  • Transportation & Logistics

Career Highlights

  • Representing parties in Asia Pacific (and conversant in Mandarin, Malay, Tamil, Malayalam along with English), Anil’s legal practice focuses on Appropriate Dispute Resolution involving infrastructure, building, and construction projects and most aspects of (a) Commercial & Civil - including Accident, Adoption and Guardianship, Banking, Bankruptcy, Directors’ Duties & Liabilities, Commercial & MCST Property Management, Contractual & Debt Recovery, Defamation, Employment, Family & Matrimonial (Civil & Syariah Courts), Factoring/Leasing/Hire Purchase, Judicial Management/Liquidation/Scheme of Arrangement/Winding Up, Insurance/Medical Negligence/Personal Injury, Probate & Trust (contentious & non contentious), Wills and Estate; (b) Criminal - Penal Code & other Statutes;  and (c) Corporate Front End Advisory - including drafting of front-end Building, Construction & Infrastructure, Tenancy, Partnership, Shareholders, Joint Ventures, Share Capital Reduction and Buy-Back and other agreements.
  • International Arbitration (including with construction/infrastructure related work) - Anil has advised both on front end and managing conflicts and disputes, and/or acted as counsel and co-counsel for (a) architectural firm on architectural consultancy agreements for major construction projects and incorporation of architectural services company in Dubai; (b) Quantity Surveyors (as In House counsel for its group of companies in Singapore, India, Vietnam & Korea) on construction and infrastructure projects including procurement strategy on airport developments,  infrastructure steel structure for power plant, oil and gas projects, tunneling and excavation, for developers, building owners and contractors in residential, commercial, institutional, industrial, infrastructural and Public Private Partnership projects in Singapore, Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam; (c) developers, building owners, contractors and sub-contractors on projects including etc. on issues with procurement, negotiations, and administering projects, managing the project; dealing with disputes including defects, delays, extension of time, change order, liabilities for damage to equipment and maintenance agreement, liquidated damages; and reviewing appropriate disputes resolution mechanism and resolving disputes via Mediation, Adjudication, Arbitration and Litigation; (d) largest Sri Lankan conglomerates in a US$ 165 million dispute arising from the investment, sale and development of land governed by Sri Lankan law and administered the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Sri Lanka; and (e) foreign oil and gas Investment Company in joint venture dispute relating to oil field concessions, governed by English law and administered by the London Courts of International Arbitration (LCIA) in London.
  • Legal Technology  – Anil is represented on the Ministry of Law Singapore (& LUPL Inc partnered)’s Advisory Member (pioneer) on the Industry Engagement and Advisory Group (IEAG) for the Legal Tech Platform (LTP); AIAC’s Technology Experts Committee (TEC); the Singapore Academy of Law’s pioneer batch (2018) of legal practitioners on the Future Law Innovation Programme and mentor (2019) on its Global Legal Innovation & Digital Entrepreneurship programme; on the Singapore Management University‘s Graduate Certificate in Law & Technology and Executive Certificate on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning programmes; and founding member (2019) of the Asia Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association.
  • Pro Bono Legal Counselling – Anil works with for Law Society of Singapore’s Ad Hoc Probono Services Assistance Scheme (and was awarded Probono Champion 2019) and serves the community including for Tasek Jurong and since 1997 with Jurong Town constituency of the Honourable Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam.
  • International Presentations, Lectures & Publishing - Along with numerous articles published internationally on Construction Law & Practice and ADR including on Online Dispute Resolution in the Asian Journal of Mediation (2016 and 2019);  International Arbitration – A Consensus on Public Policy Defences in the Asian International Arbitration Journal (2009); Appropriate Dispute Resolution in the Construction Industry, Advent of Alternatives including with Technology, in the Bangladesh International Arbitration Centre Journal September (2018) & Colombo Law Society (Sri Lanka)’s Hulftsdorp Law Journal, Vol 1 (2017); and book Resolving Disputes, a Guide to the Options for Appropriate Dispute Resolution, published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia (2019).

Memberships

  • Singapore Mediation Centre, Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), Vietnam International Commercial Mediation Centre and Singapore Family Justice Court - accredited Mediator
  • AIAC - Adjudicator
  • Chartered, Singapore and Philippines Institutes of Arbitrators - Arbitrator (Fellows)
  • ADR ODR International and Dispute Resolution Board Foundation - Country Representative (Singapore)
  • Asia Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution’s Professional Development & Education Committee (since 2020); the Singapore Institute of Architects (since 2010) and its Small and Medium Architectural Practice committee (since 2009); Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers, Society of Interior Designers Singapore; Singapore Corporate Counsel Association; the Society of Construction Law (International), Society of Construction Law (Singapore); the Inquiry Panel (Law Society of Singapore) (since 2019), the Singapore Pharmacy Council Complaints Panel; founding board of the Beihai Asia International Arbitration Centre Singapore (2019 - 20): the Singapore Sri Lanka Business Association (2014 - 20); the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (2018-19); and Asia Pacific Corporate Counsel Alliance (since 2011 as its Director of International Relations and Membership); and the Law Society of Singapore’s International Relation Committee’s Vice Chair - Honorary legal advice/vice chair/international committee

Qualifications

  • Master of Science in Construction Law & Arbitration, Kings College London & National University of Singapore
  • Singapore Management University‘s Graduate Certificate in Law & Technology and Executive Certificate on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning programmes
  • Graduate Certificate Restorative Justice, International Institute of Restorative Practice
  • Solicitor of England and Wales 
  • Certificate in Emotional Quotient Coaching
  • Advocate & Solicitor in Singapore 
  • Qualified as Barrister at Law (Middle Temple of England & Wales)

Thought Leadership

  • Book – Resolving Disputes, a Guide to the Options for Appropriate Dispute Resolution, published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia (2019).
  • Online Dispute Resolution in the Asian Journal of Mediation (2016 and 2019)
  • International Arbitration – A Consensus on Public Policy Defences in the Asian International Arbitration Journal (2009)
  • Appropriate Dispute Resolution in the Construction Industry, Advent of Alternatives including with Technology, in the Bangladesh International Arbitration Centre Journal September (2018)
  • Colombo Law Society (Sri Lanka)’s Hulftsdorp Law Journal, Vol 1 (2017)

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