Dato’ Sunil Abraham is a partner in Cecil Abraham & Partners based in Kuala Lumpur. He specialises in Corporate and Commercial, Banking and Securities, Media, Public and Administrative as well as Environmental Law. He has significant advocacy experience before the Federal Court, Court of Appeal and High Court in Malaysia as well as before arbitral tribunals. He has appeared in international commercial arbitrations as counsel under the AIAC Rules, ICC Rules, SIAC Rules and HKIAC Rules, amongst others. He has also appeared as co-counsel for the Government of Malaysia in an investment treaty claim as well as for Malaysian investors in investment treaty claims against the Government of India. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is on the AIAC’s panel of arbitrators.
He has been recognised as a leading individual by Legal 500 Asia Pacific and is ranked by Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific, Benchmark Litigation, Asia Law Profiles and Global Arbitration Review in the area of dispute resolution. In 2016, he was named by Asian Legal Business in the Top 40 Under 40 Practitioners in Asia.