Tan Sri Dato' Cecil Abraham practices as an advocate, arbitrator and mediator. He is a Senior Partner with Zul Rafique & Partners, Malaysia.

Tan Sri Dato' is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (United Kingdom), the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators, the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, the Singapore Mediation Centre, and the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration Limited.

He was elected a Fellow of Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London in 1990. He is a member of the International Bar Association (IBA), the International Council of Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Commission on Arbitration, the Arbitration and ADR Committee of the Malaysian Bar Council, and the Working Group of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association. He is a member of the Committee appointed by the Chief Justice of Malaysia to assist in the drafting of the new Malaysian Mediation Act, and is a founding member of the International Maritime Conciliation and Mediation Panel (IMCAM), which is set up to deal with mediation on maritime disputes.

Tan Sri Dato' currently chairs the Practice Section of the Malaysian Bar Council on Civil Procedure that is given the responsibility to amend the Malaysian Rules of the High Court. He is the chairman of the ADR Committee of ICC Malaysia, and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC).

Tan Sri Dato' Cecil Abraham is a Past Vice President of Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group (APRAG), Past Vice Chair of Committee D (which is the Arbitration and ADR Section of the IBA), Past Deputy President of the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators, Past Member of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Past Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Malaysia Branch (CIArb), Past President of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA), Past Member of the Malaysian Bar Council, and Past Chairman of the Kuala Lumpur Bar Committee.

He has edited a number of volumes of the Malaysian Court Forms, and the Halsbury’s Laws of Malaysia on Practice & Procedure. He has contributed the Malaysian chapter on arbitration in Commercial Arbitration Law in Asia and the Pacific (an ICC Publication edited by Simmonds Hill Jarvin); the Malaysian Chapter on arbitration in Arbitration in Asia (published by Butterworths, and edited by Michael J Moser); the Malaysian Chapter on arbitration for the Global Legal Group entitled Questions for the International Comparative Legal Guide: International Arbitration 2003; the Malaysian Chapter in Cargo Claims by William Tetley; the Malaysian Chapter in the International Bar Association publication Judicial Sales of Vessels and Priority of Claims published by Kluwer; the Chapter on the “Role Played by the Party-Appointed Arbitrator” in The Asian Leading Arbitrators Guide to International Arbitration; the Malaysian Chapter in Arbitration World, 3rd Edition; and the Malaysian Chapter on Arbitration in World Arbitration Reporter. He is the Malaysian correspondent for Malaysia of the International Arbitration Law Review.

Tan Sri Dato' Abraham has presented papers on various aspects of arbitration at the International Bar Association, the Inter-Pacific Bar Association, UNCITRAL, LawAsia, Asean Law Conference and other regional conferences.

As an advocate, he has appeared before the High Courts of Malaya and Sabah & Sarawak, Court of Appeal, the Federal Court, and the Privy Council. He has acted as counsel in a number of landmark cases of a commercial nature involving banks, finance companies and multi-nationals listed in the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. Over 220 of his cases are reported in the local law reports.

Tan Sri Dato' has an extensive arbitration practice: he has sat as chairman, sole-Arbitrator and co-arbitrator in over 55 commercial arbitrations held in India, France, Taiwan, Switzerland, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong and Malaysia, amongst others, under the SIAC, LCIA, ICC, KLRCA, and ICSID Rules. He was a counsel for the Government of Malaysia in an investment arbitration held under the International Convention for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Dato’ Cecil Abraham sits on the panel of Arbitrators of the Hong Kong Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA), the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA), the FICCI Arbitration and Conciliation Tribunal (FACT) India, the Indonesian National Board of Arbitration (BANI),the Indian Council of Arbitration (ICA), the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

Tan Sri Dato' Abraham graduated with an LLB (Hons) from the Queen Mary College, University of London in 1968. He was called by the Honourable Society of Middle Temple as a Barrister at Law in May 1969, and was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in February 1970.

Dr. Aishah Bidin is a Professor of Corporate and Insolvency Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). She is also the legal advisor of UKM Holdings, the corporate arm of University Kebangsaan Malaysia.

She obtained her LLB (Hons) from University of Malaya, Masters in Laws from the University of Kent, and PhD in Laws from University of London.

Dr. Aishah, an academic staff of the law faculty of UKM since 1984, was also involved in the Law and Accounting teaching program at the Law Faculty of the University of Kent. She was seconded to the law practices of Messrs Allen & Overy (Banking and Securities Department) and Messrs Travis, Smith and Braithwaite (Banking and Corporate Insolvency Unit), both of which were based in London.

Her areas of specialization include company and corporate finance law, securities regulation, bankruptcy and insolvency law. She has been lecturing on company and partnership law since 1989, and currently her areas of interest also include Islamic banking and finance and corporate regulation.

Dr. Aishah has written for various local Malaysian and British academic journals in company, securities and insolvency law. Through the fundamental research grant from UKM (FRGS), she has completed three projects for the university: Insolvency Governance and Reforms in Malaysia and its Impact on Creditors (2002), Corporate Financing in Malaysia (2004), and Rehabilitative Framework for Insolvent Companies in Malaysia and Australia (2007). Presently, under the Research University Grant (GUP), she is embarking on a research on the Impact of Advancement of Technology on Corporations in which the areas of study includes electronic meetings, offering of securities and prospectus on line, banking and corporate fraud. She is also a heading a research team researching on Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) of SMEs companies in Malaysia.

She is the consulting editor for the International Corporate Law Bulletin (Sweet and Maxwell, London), and the Journal of Society of Advanced Legal Studies (Kluwer Press Group, London).

Dr. Aishah was a member of the Malaysian Corporate Law Reform Committee (CLRC). She was a member of its Technical Sub-committee, and she also sat in CLRC’s working groups on corporate governance and shareholders’ rights, and insolvency and corporate securities. In early 2007, she has been a Visiting Professor at the Department of Business Law and Taxation Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Malaysian Studies in Monash Asia Institute (Australia). Currently, she is a Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales (Australia).

Professor Dr. Choong Yeow Choy is the dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya.

He is also the chairman of Board of Governors of the Asian Law Institute (ASLI), a trustee of Yayasan Tun Suffian, and an executive council member of the ASEAN Law Association of Malaysia. Prof. Choong is an Advisory Board Member of the International Law Education and Internationalization of Law at Syiah Kuala University, Aceh (Indonesia), and a member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Advocates and Solicitors Disciplinary Board. 

He was the Malaysian representative to the ASEAN Law Schools Association, and the chairman of its standing committee on International Friendship and Goodwill (1993-1999). Professor Choong was also an examiner for several bodies including Malaysian Qualifying Board, Malaysian Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators (MAICSA), the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (CACA), the Malaysian Association of Certified Public Accountants (MACPA), and the Malaysian Association of Accounting Administrators (MAAA).

Prof. Choong has published extensively. He is the author of Law of Limitation (Butterworths Asia, 1995) and Default Judgment: Principles and Procedure (LexisNexis, 2006). He has contributed chapters to numerous academic publications. He has also written several articles for legal journals including Malayan Law Journal, Current Law Journal, Commonwealth Judicial Journal, The Company Lawyer, The Australian Journal of Asian Law and the Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law. Some of his recent articles include Andre Ravindran S Arul v Duli Yang Amat Mulia Tunku Ibrahim Ismail Ibni Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj: Renewing the Interest on the Duration and Renewal of a Writ (2005, Malayan Law Journal), Time for Setting Aside a Default Judgment: The Justice of Technicalities in the Malaysian Context (2006, Civil Justice Quarterly), Contra Bonos Mores: Religious Tenets and National Philosophy as the Yardstick for Determining Public Policy (2007, The Australian Journal of Asian Law).

He was awarded Democratic Pacific Union’s 2007 Fellowship (2007), Melbourne International Research Scholarship (1999), Fulbright Research Scholar Award (1994/5). He was also a recipient of the Asia Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship (1988/9), and Friendship programme for the 21st Century Award (1992). He obtained his LLB from University of Malaya, Masters in Laws from the Harvard University, and PhD in Laws from University of Melbourne. 

He has represented the University of Malaya and Malaysia in the 1985 and 1986 Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in New York and Washington DC respectively, and won second and third places for the Best Written Memorial Competition in the International Division in 1985 and 1986 respectively. He was a visiting Fulbright Scholar, Marshall Wythe School of Law, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Dato' Shankar has served as a Judge of the High Court and Court of Appeal for 15 years. He was in active legal practice for over 25 years prior to his appointment as a Judge. Dato' Shankar is well-versed in the various areas of the law, especially in the areas of commercial and trade law, and human rights.

He has been a member of the Malaysian Bar Council for several years, and was appointed a member of the National Goodwill Council in 1969. He was Royal Commissioner in 1971 for the Reform of the Laws of Marriage and Divorce in Malaysia and for many years was a member of the Legal Qualifying Board established under the Legal Profession Act. In 1998, he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the injuries sustained by Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim whilst in police custody.

He has had extensive experience in the field of domestic and international Arbitration in Malaysia, Singapore, and London.

In the field of legal education, he was also involved as a visiting professor to the University of Malaya in 1998 and as an associate of the College of Law in Sydney Australia for their course on Advocacy for post graduate students in Kuala Lumpur. For over a decade he has been Co-chairman of the Olympia College and the Raffles Business Centre.

He has been a keynote speaker in many conferences involving matters relating to legal issues in commercial law and arbitration.

Dato' Shankar is one of the founder members of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia which was established in 1999. He is a Paul Harris Fellow in Rotary International and was recently nominated by the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia as its Advisory Jurist for the Asia Pacific Forum where he served till 2006.

He has been the founder President of the Medico Legal Society of Malaysia.

Dr. Veerinderjeet Singh is the Managing Director of Taxand Malaysia Sdn Bhd. He has extensive experience in tax matters having been a Tax Partner in international accounting firms and having worked with the Malaysian Inland Revenue Department. He has advised on a wide range of tax matters affecting cross-border investments, corporate restructuring, financial institutions, multi-national entities, listed entities and government and quasi government entities and projects.

Dr. Singh is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA), the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA), the Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia (CTIM) as well as CPA Australia.

He was elected as the president of CTIM for a 3-year term starting from mid-June 2007, and is a member of the Council of CTIM. He is also the Chairman of the International Fiscal Association (Malaysia Branch). He was a member of the Labuan IOFC Tax Consultative Committee set up by the Labuan Offshore Financial Services Authority.

He has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Malaya, and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Taylors Business School. Dr. Singh has over 100 publications including books as well as articles in local and international tax, law and accounting journals and in local newspapers.

Dato’ Karam Chand Vohrah (KC Vohrah) is a consultant with Messrs Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill, Kuala Lumpur. He is active in both domestic and international arbitration work since 2002.

Dato’ KC Vohrah, a retired Court of Appeal judge, serves as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague (Netherlands), and the Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (a division of the Centre for American and International Law). He is a member of Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration, and a fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitration (SIArb).

He is an Adjunct Professor of College of Law, Government and International Studies (University Utara Malaysia), and Faculty of Law and Government (HELP University College, Kuala Lumpur). He is also an external examiner of Faculty of Law (University of Malaya).

Dato’ is a former Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (July 2002 – April 2008), and a former Chairman of the Corporate Law Reform Committee. He served as the Treasury Solicitor, the Head of the Advisory Division of Attorney General’s Chambers, and an Acting Parliamentary Draftsman. He was a legal adviser to the Royal Customs and Excise Department and the Ministry of Primary Industries. Dato’ also has served in the Judicial and Legal Service of Malaya.

He has participated in many negotiations relating to international loan agreements (including those of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank) and bond issues, and was legal adviser to the various conferences in relation to the Tin and Rubber Buffer Stock Agreements. Additionally, he was involved in the Law of the Sea Conferences in New York and Geneva as part of the Malaysian Delegation.

Dato’ has written many articles on law and on human rights. He has co-authored the 5th Edition of Sheridan & Groves: The Constitution of Malaysia (2004) and Vohrah and Hamid on the Malaysian Penal Code (2005).

He studied law at the University of Singapore, and has a Master of Law degree from the Free University of Brussels.

Wong Sai Fong is the Managing Partner of Shearn Delamore & Co, one of the oldest and largest legal firms in Malaysia. He also co-heads the Firm’s Intellectual Property/ICT practice.

Sai Fong is a member of Malaysian Intellectual Property Association (MIPA), the Asean Intellectual Property Association (AIPA), the American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association (AIPLA), the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA), and the IP Committee of the Malaysian Bar. He sits on the Publications Committee of the International Trademark Association, and the Anti-Counterfeiting Committee of the Asian Patent Attorney’s Association. He is also a past president of MIPA. 

He is often consulted by intellectual property protection and enforcement coalitions to propose amendments to existing intellectual property laws or new laws to provide for better efficiency in the enforcement of intellectual property rights, and sits as a member on ad hoc government committees set up to review existing intellectual property laws or to propose amendments to existing laws. 

He practises exclusively in the field of intellectual property (counterfeiting trade marks, copyright, industrial designs, patents, confidential information and trade secrets). He has represented several multinational corporations in high-profile litigation and intellectual property enforcement matters. He frequently appears as senior counsel in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Federal Court. He also sits as an arbitrator for KLRAC in MYNIC Dispute Resolution Process. 

His non-litigation work includes advising on information technology, e-commerce telecommunications, franchising, entertainment, media, sponsorship and merchandising matters and related agreements. He has been involved in unfair trade practice cases, the mediation or settlement of intellectual property related disputes, and representation of clients in dispute resolution matters. 

He also regularly participates and speaks at many national and international intellectual property conferences and seminars. His recent publications include Industrial Property (Katzarov’s Manual on Industrial Property), Trade Description (Original Label) Order (INTA Bulletin), and the Malaysian Country Chapter for Winning Legal Strategies: International Patent Law. 

Wong Sai Fong was called by the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn as a Barrister at Law in 1977, and was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 1977 and of Singapore in 1993.