Admitted to practice in the Singapore Bar since 1989 after graduating from National University of Singapore (NUs) with Honors. Completed CIARB Fellowship and Award Writing Course (2006).
Founding Partner and Managing Director of Gurbani & Co LLC. Practicing primarily as a litigation and arbitration lawyer and arbitrator since 1989. Engaged mainly as Lead Counsel in civil litigation, international arbitration and occasionally as Arbitrator involving disputes in insurance, including marine insurance, cross border, commercial and personal investments infrastructure construction projects (power plants, hydroelectric dams oil rigs), shipbuilding, rig construction-sales and purchase, disputes related to carriage of goods by sea, air, road, freight forwarding, ship sales and purchase, chartering, all types of shipping casualties (sinkings, groundings/collisions, piracy, fire), personal injuries and death.
Advising on and engaged by international law firms in the cross-border enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards in various jurisdictions in the ASEAN countries, India and China through a well-established network of local correspondent firms.
Adjunct practice involving advising on corporate and commercial matters involving the setting up of new business projects companies, joint ventures, acquisitions of businesses and other corporate ventures and agreements involving start-ups in Southeast Asian countries, China, and India. Engaged in the negotiation, structuring and drafting of all types of commercial agreements, including applications for business licenses. Have in the last 3 decades been working with various law firms from all over the world, including UK, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam in cross-border deals.
