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IBA Asia Pacific Arbitration Group Symposium: international arbitration in a fragmented world - geopolitics, sovereign immunity, and new paths to resolution
26 Aug 2026
Maxwell Chambers, SingaporeSpeaker information
Sunil Abraham
Biography
Dato’ Sunil Abraham is a partner at Cecil Abraham & Partners. He specialises in Corporate and Commercial, Banking and Securities, Media, Telecommunications, Public & Administrative and Environmental Law disputes as well as in Arbitration disputes. He has significant advocacy experience before the High Court of Malaya, Court of Appeal of Malaysia and Federal Court of Malaysia as well as before arbitral tribunals. He also sits an arbitrator in commercial and infrastructure related disputes. He has been recognised as a leading individual by Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Benchmark Litigation, Asialaw Profiles as well as being ranked by Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific in the area of dispute resolution. He has also been recognised in Who’s Who Legal as a Future Leader in Arbitration. In 2016, he was named by Asian Legal Business in the Top 40 Under 40 Practitioners in Asia.
Session
Panel discussion two: Sovereign immunity and enforcement constraints
Wednesday 26 August (1515 - 1615)
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