Organisation: Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration

The Malaysian parliament has reformed its arbitration law to allow third-party funding and implement organisational changes to its leading arbitral institution, the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC).

30 July 2024

Sundra Rajoo has stepped down as director of the Asia International Arbitration Centre in the wake of recent changes to its governance, including a new board of directors and moves to establish a court of arbitration. 

05 July 2024

The president of the Malaysian Bar has resigned from the advisory board of the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC) after its members were asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

25 September 2023

A documentary looking at key moments in the history of international arbitration and how it has transformed international trade and development in Africa and Asia has been released to mark the 40th anniversary of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.

22 September 2023

In a dramatic volte face, Sundra Rajoo has been reinstated as director of the Kuala Lumpur-based Asian International Arbitration Centre after being cleared of criminal charges arising from his previous eight-year tenure.

17 March 2023

Mayer Brown has promoted three new partners in Hong Kong and London and a counsel in Dubai, also recruiting a new counsel in Singapore.

23 November 2022

Leading Canadian arbitrator David Haigh KC is leaving the partnership at Calgary firm Burnet Duckworth & Palmer, his home for more than 50 years, to practise independently.

27 October 2022

Raza Mithani has left the partnership at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner in Dubai to set up a UAE boutique focusing on disputes and investigations – where he will be aided by three silks and a former president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

21 January 2022

A Malaysian federal court judge, Suriyadi Halim Omar, has been appointed director of the Kuala-Lumpur based Asian International Arbitration Centre after Vinayak Pradhan died earlier this year. 

16 November 2020

A Thai coal-mining company has made good on its threat to file a new UNCITRAL claim worth US$450 million against Laos over the termination of a power plant project, after a prior award it won over the same matter was set aside by the Malaysian courts.

15 July 2020