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Thayananthan Baskaran is a partner with Baskaran, Kuala Lumpur, and a door tenant and Head of Southeast Asia at International Construction Chambers, London. Thaya’s primary area of practice is construction law. He drafts various building and engineering contracts, advises on disputes arising from such contracts, and appears as counsel to resolve these disputes. Thaya also sits as an adjudicator, arbitrator, and mediator. Thaya is the author of Arbitration in Malaysia: A Commentary on the Malaysian Arbitration Act (Wolters Kluwer 2019). Thaya was the Chair of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Malaysia Branch (2017-19) and the President of the Society of Construction Law Malaysia (2016-17). Thaya is the editor of Construction Law International, the magazine of the International Bar Association International Construction Projects Committee. Thaya has been recommended by Lexology Index/Who’s Who Legal Arbitration and included in the Legal 500 Arbitration Private Practice Powerlist: Southeast Asia Region. Thaya was educated at St John’s Institution, Kuala Lumpur, read law at King’s College, London, studied construction engineering at Queens’ College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn.