Established in 2015, Cecil Abraham & Partners continues to win praise from the market as one of the leading commercial disputes firms. Its eponymous senior partner is revered as one of the top advocates in the country, a familiar name on many landmark cases. The firm handles complex, novel contentious issues across a wide swathe of financial and corporate practice areas and provides the full suite of dispute resolution services, from advisory and strategy to litigation and arbitration. It also has experience in environmental, media, property and telecommunications matters. The firm’s arbitration practice is extensive, with Abraham having sat as chair, sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator in over 100 commercial arbitrations under a wide variety of international rules. The firm advises and acts for Fortune 500 companies, media conglomerates, government-linked companies and high-net-worth individuals to not-for-profit entities, charities, private individuals and private limited companies.
Abraham heads a leadership team that includes partners Rishwant Singh, Sunil Abraham and Aniz Ahmad Amirudin.
In one construction case highlight, the firm is acting for Malaysian Resources Corporation in respect of four separate arbitrations relating to the Desaru Coast development, which is part of the Malaysian government’s plans to bring investment and tourism to the East Coast Economic Region development that boasts an integrated destination resort. The value of each of the four arbitration proceedings is in the region of $112-123 million.
The firm’s IP team has been acting for Shopee Mobile Malaysia in defending copyright infringement claims brought by two film production companies. The significance of these two cases is further emphasized by the growth of e-commerce platforms in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic, concerning whether the Copyright Act 1987 has provided sufficient protection to e-commerce platforms in preventing a flood of copyright infringement claims against e-commerce platforms for the infringing acts of the sellers on such platforms.
Hercules Engineering, Kining Exeton, Lynas Corporation, NRY Architects and Yinson Holdings worked with the firm in the past year.
Cecil Abraham
“Cecil Abraham's positive attributes are in the manner he conducts and presents complicated legal issues. He is considered the best civil lawyer, including in arbitration, in this region.”
