About
Sunil Abraham is a partner at Cecil Abraham & Partners who specialises in corporate and commercial, banking and securities, media, telecommunications, public and administrative, and environmental law disputes, as well as arbitration. He has significant advocacy experience before the High Court, Court of Appeal and Federal Court of Malaysia and before arbitral tribunals.
Practice areas
Corporate / M&ABanking & FinanceMediaTelecommunicationsPublic / AdministrativeEnvironmentalInternational ArbitrationLitigation
Office
Expertise
Land acquisition disputesPlanning permission disputesDefamation (including defence of reportage)Registration and enforcement of arbitral awardsIntroducer agreements / Contracts Act 1950 issuesApplication of Section 10 of the Arbitration Act 2005Forgery in civil claimsBanking and securities disputes
Education
- BSc Economics (Hons), London School of Economics, University of London
- Post-Graduate Diploma in Law, BPP Law School
- Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law, City University
- Barrister at Law of the Honourable Society of Middle Temple
- Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya
- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (United Kingdom)
- Fellow of the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators
- Fellow of the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution
Admissions
- Barrister at Law of the Honourable Society of Middle Temple
- Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya
- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (United Kingdom)
- Fellow of the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators
- Fellow of the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution
Languages
EnglishMalay