Corporate and insolvency litigation; asset and debt recovery; receivership; commercial litigation; defamation and professional negligence.

Competition Law. Compulsory land acquisition. Land Reference hearings and appeals under the Land Acquisition Act 1960. Planning Development hearings. Appeals to the Appeals Board under the Town and Country Planning legislation. Judicial Review against compulsory acquisition, and development and planning orders.

Maritime transportation and insurance; marine cargo and hull claims; maritime arbitration; maritime casualty, salvage and collision claims; marine environment and regulatory; ship building and registration; maritime lien and mortgages; arrest of ships and releases and maritime litigation.  Represent a wide rand of maritime interests including ship owners, charterers, P & I clubs, shipyards, banks, oil and gas multinationals, container terminal operators, freight forwarders and logistic companies.

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Regulatory Compliance & Enforcement
Anti-money laundering, anti-corruption, breach of trust, securities legislation and prosecution by  Attorney General’s Chambers, Securities Commission and Bursa Malaysia.

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Environmental
Deals with both contentious and non-contentious work, advise clients on a broad range of matters, including regulatory compliance, environmental audits and tortious liability issue, represent clients in civil tort claims, and in dealings with and prosecutions by the Department of Environment.

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Energy, Natural Resources & Green Technology (ENRGT)
Joint ventures in respect of ENRGT projects, licensing, operation, management agreements as well as other associated agreements, advises on land acquisition and other related land issues.

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• LL.B (Hons) (IIUM) (First Class Honours)
• LL.M (Hons) (Cantab) (Second Class Upper)
• M.A. (Cantab)
• Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya

Malaya (1996)

• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)
• Member of the Malaysian Bar
• Member of the Shipping and Admiralty Committee of the Malaysian Bar
• Member of the International Bar Association (IBA)

• Chambers Asia Pacific 2013 - "Widely respected litigator Rajasingam Gothandapani heads the firm's maritime and admiralty practice and specialises in contentious matters in this field." 

• The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2013 - "Rajasingam Gothandapani and ... are ‘reactive and commercial, and have excellent legal and procedural knowledge’."

• Chambers Asia Pacific 2012 - "Is a leading individual in the sector and the main shipping partner at the firm." 

• The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2011 - "He as having exceptional shipping litigation expertise. The firm recently demonstrated its broad expertise by seeking to enforce an RM120m Islamic facility under the Syariah principle of Al-Bai’ Bithamin Ajil."

• Chambers Asia Pacific 2010 - a "Leading Individual" for Shipping.

• The Royal Award carrying the title “Pingat Jaya Cemerlang” - bestowed by Their Highnesses in the Council of Malay Rulers for emerging as the Overall Best Graduate for the Year 1995.

• The Chevening - British High Commission Scholarship (1996-1997) for postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

• The Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship (1996-1997) for postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

• A Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Society.

Contributor to International Law Office Legal Newsletter on Shipping and Transport. Published articles include :- “Specialized Admiralty Court in the Making”, “Government Reviews National Cabotage Policy”, “Arresting Ships in Malaysian waters to secure a claim in arbitration”, “Ownership, Registration, Transfer and Mortgage of Malaysian-Flagged Ships”, “Actions In Rem : Practice and Procedure”, “Act amended to allow ship arrest to secure a claim in arbitration”, “Proposed Arbitration Act amendments on ship arrest”, “Foreign crew : recognition of competency certificates”, “New Admiralty Court established for resolution of admiralty and maritime disputes”, “Domestic shipping licence and foreign ship managers”, “Pre-empting arrest : when shipowners resort to lodging a caveat against arrest”.

English, Bahasa Malaysia and Tamil

Telephone: +603 2027 2911
Fax: +603 2027 2962
Email: rajasingam@shearndelamore.com